FogHelmut posted:

Similar http://m.ocregister.com/articles/children-730323-agency-infection.html

They weren't sterilizing the water pipes.

quote:

The children all underwent baby tooth root canals

Sentient Data posted:

What the gently caress, root canals on teeth that they know will be temporary?

Sentient Data posted:

What the gently caress, root canals on teeth that they know will be temporary?

Powershift posted:

Powershift posted:

FogHelmut posted:

Similar http://m.ocregister.com/articles/children-730323-agency-infection.html

They weren't sterilizing the water pipes.

Gumbel2Gumbel posted:

No but if you have celiac you're some huge stupid percentage more likely to die in any random year because cross contamination fucks your body up.

Also I dunno why everyone gets so up in arms about people not eating wheat even if their reasons are bad, it's not particularly good for you even if your body can process it without having a meltdown.

People saying they have celiac when they don't is way less annoying to me than people getting all up in arms about their love of bread. No one wants to hear that you're fat and want to get fatter.

Asehujiko posted:

Fake allergies create a market for fake hypoallergenic food. My sister is lactose intolerant and got sick of something labelled "suitable for a lactose free lifestyle" which turned out to be decidedly non lactose free because despite appearances it was a propriety label that meant <1% lactose by weight, so basically everything but milk powder.

Now she just spent a day on the toilet and was fine afterwards. But this poo poo can happen with more serious conditions too.

Asehujiko posted:

Now she just spent a day on the toilet and was fine afterwards. But this poo poo can happen with more serious conditions too.

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

Well that is just impressive

Ape Has Killed Ape posted:

I'm more impressed that the pipe doesn't crumple under that weight.

dmnz posted:

KoRMaK posted:

yo, is his arm getting longer for a second at the end there? It's like his arm has 4 lengths, instead of 3

Collateral Damage posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ5hV-ESBd0

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-30/russian-mafia-behind-international-push-on-asbestos-cfmeu-says/8224022 posted:

The Russian mafia is the force behind a powerful international pro-asbestos lobby, a Senate inquiry in Brisbane has heard.

A Senate committee is investigating sub-standard and potentially lethal building products such as asbestos and how they are making their way into Australia.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/05/the-trump-files-asbestos-mob-conspiracy posted:

Believe Donald Trump, folks: There is an anti-asbestos conspiracy. In his 1997 book, The Art of the Comeback, Trump warned America not to buy the crusade against "the greatest fire-proofing material ever used." He claimed the movement to remove asbestos—a known carcinogen—was actually the handiwork of the mafia:

Donald Trump, apparently posted:

I believe that the movement against asbestos was led by the mob, because it was often mob-related companies that would do the asbestos removal. Great pressure was put on politicians, and as usual, the politicians relented. Millions of truckloads of this incredible fire-proofing material were taken to special "dump sites" and asbestos was replaced by materials that were supposedly safe but couldn't hold a candle to asbestos in limiting the ravages of fire.

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/258655569458651136?lang=en posted:

.@dubephnx If we didn't remove incredibly powerful fire retardant asbestos & replace it with junk that doesn't work, the World Trade Center would never have burned down.

dmnz posted:

Buttcoin purse posted:

There was some talk about asbestos recently right?

News from a few days ago:


Kind of related, from 8 months ago:

tight aspirations posted:

mds2 posted:

this is god damned impressive

tight aspirations posted:

Collateral Damage posted:

Is it the aspartame that causes the reaction?

Collateral Damage posted:

Is it the aspartame that causes the reaction?

quote:

The eruption is caused by a physical reaction, rather than any chemical reaction. The addition of the Mentos leads to the rapid nucleation of carbon dioxide gas bubbles precipitating out of solution.[16] Gasses, in general, are more soluble in liquids at elevated pressures. Carbonated sodas contain elevated levels of carbon dioxide under pressure. The solution becomes supersaturated with carbon dioxide when the bottle is opened, and the pressure is released. Under these conditions, carbon dioxide begins to precipitate from solution, forming gas bubbles. Normally, this process is relatively slow, because the activation energy for this process is high. The activation energy for a process like bubble nucleation depends on where the bubble forms. It is highest for bubbles that form in the liquid itself (homogeneous nucleation), and lower if the bubble forms on some other surface (heterogeneous nucleation). When the pressure is released from a soda bottle, the bubbles tend to form on the sides of the bottle. But because they are smooth and clean, the activation energy is still relatively high, and the process is slow. The addition of other nucleation sites provides an alternate pathway for the reaction to occur with lower activation energy, much like a catalyst. For instance dropping grains of salt or sand into the solution lowers the activation energy, and increases the rate of carbon dioxide precipitation. The physical characteristics of Mentos (surface roughness, easy dissolution into the liquid, etc.) have the effect of drastically reducing the activation energy for carbon dioxide bubble formation, so that the nucleation rate becomes exceedingly high. This formation of gaseous carbon dioxide within the water, which due to hydrogen bonding and its high surface tension wants to maintain a connected matrix of molecules, causes the water to foam, ultimately generating the "jet"—or "geyser"—or eruption-like nature of the effusion.[11][3][14][17] The foaming is aided by the presence of chemicals like potassium benzoate and aspartame in Diet Coke, and gelatin and gum arabic in the Mentos candy, all which influence the nature of water's surface tension and degree to which it can foam.[9][11][14]


The nucleation reaction can start with any heterogeneous surface, such as rock salt, but Mentos have been found to work better than most.[3][11][14] Tonya Coffey, a physicist at Appalachian State University, found that the aspartame in diet drinks lowers the surface tension in the water and causes a bigger reaction, but that caffeine does not accelerate the process. The geyser reaction will still work even using sugared drinks, but diet is commonly used both for the sake of a larger geyser as well as to avoid having to clean up a sugary soda mess.

Gorilla Salad posted:

You can even do it with sand. We did it as kids at the beach. Heaps of fun and no clean up because it's the loving beach.

But, if you want it to really explode - use activated charcoal. Each individual grain is about the size of a grain of sand, but has more surface area than a tennis court. One gram of activated carbon has a surface area in excess of 3,000 m2 (32,000 sq ft).

Drop it in a glass or anything carbonated and poo poo will fly to the loving moon.

haveblue posted:

Like so many other dumb science lab stunts, this has been thoroughly investigated by Mythbusters.

Phanatic posted:

And more importantly, by Kari Byron.