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Using Cinnamon In the Production of Nanoparticles
An anonymous reader writes "Scientists at the University of Missouri used cinnamon to replace almost all toxic chemicals needed for making gold nanoparticles used in electronics and healthcare products. Nanoparticle production requires the use of extremely dangerous and toxic chemicals. While the nanotechnology industry is expected to produce large quantities of useful nanoparticles in the near future, the entire production process could be detrimental to the environment."
Now the grey goo will have a homey, delightful odor as it consumes our planet!*
*(Yes, I'm aware 'grey goo' is impossible. Shuddup)
The particles will smell terrific
The world is how you make it
They should taste my nano-apfelstrudel!
...a pinch of oregano, 'cause you know a little goes a long way.
I like you, Stuart. You're not like everyone else, here, at Slashdot.
I think advertisers just creamed themselves.
vos nescitis quicquam, nec cogitatis quia expedit nobis ut unus moriatur homo pro populo et non tota gens pereat.
-- You got cinnamon on my gold!
-- You got gold on my cinnamon!
-- Woah, wtf is *that*!?
Ahhhh! No more Toxic Toast Crunch for me...
Something tells me that this is going to end like the biofuel scam, where forests are vanishing to produce a more pollutant fuel than gasoline... Killing natural spices to produce gold in some industries' pockets.
Well, that explains Cinnabon.
Once again it is proved - the spice is the worm. The worm is the spice.
Tiger Blooded Bi-Winning Machine
“Our gold nanoparticles are not only ecologically and biologically benign, they are also biologically active against cancer cells,”
A) How can you be benign AND active?.
B) everything is poisonous. It's the dose them makes the poison.
C) I can't see how this process uses no electricity. How does the cinnamon and gold particles get together? how is the cinnamon remove?
D) How much energy will go into harvesting more cinnamon?
I hope is true because Oz. to Oz Cinnamon will be a safer product to use in the process, but it's not magic.
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it's quite a bit cheaper. I would imagine that planting cinnamon trees are very cost friendly versus toxic chemicals. Cinnamon girls, less so. Toxic Avengers would also raise costs.... But cinnamon trees, absolutely lower them.
Best of all, there isn't a lag. Cinnamon trees only take a few years to begin producing large quantities. Everyone is a winner. Especially the Toxic Avenger.
I bet there was a little voice inside their heads that said they should do this for the lulz and to show how we sometimes really over complicate things.
Let the spice wars begin.
I live in constant fear of the Coming of the Red Spiders.
Real Cinnamon is rare and expensive, toxic chemicals usually aren't. Which do you think China's going to decide to use?
Nanoparticles Toast Crunch! The taste you can't see!
By using the word nano and variations, like nanoparticles and nanotechnology, a nanoposting can include the word five times.
Gold? Cinnamon? It's a delicious discovery for science! See, it's not toxic at all, we can drink a ton of it!
That BIG RED freshness will last right through it. Your production goes on and on as you use this...
"Aha! I fooled you, the cinnamon was actually BASIL!"
"ngghhhhaaaah!"
I've always known that cinnamon was toxic.
So Melange really is just cinnamon!?
Looking forward to Heston Blumenthal's Gold Nanoparticle Flavoured 'Sounds of Science'.
the spice must flow
I'm a little disappointed that there aren't any Hangover - related comments. "Tigers love pepper, they hate cinnamon."
Paul is dead!
Tasty, alas ...
Ha! All cinnamon processes are puny in comparison to my "Incense and Peppermints" process!
From my patent application:
Good sense, innocence, cripplin' and kind.
Dead kings, many things I can't define.
Oh Cajun spice, sweats and blushers your mind.
Incense and peppermints, the color of thyme.
This patent will be more important than the Segway!
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
From the TFA: "it is clear that cinnamon – and other species such as herbs, leaves and seeds".
So leaves and seeds are classified as species according to these scientists. They must have got their diplomas online.
Make cinnamon into a highly toxic chemical.
Ewige Blumenkraft.
I anonymously count 6—only 4 if you forget about the headline.
OK, I take it this is 5 on average ...
Just wanted to say that.
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Using cinnamon with gold is nothing particularly new!
Ahh - My eye!
The doctor said I'm not supposed to get Slashdot in it!
The actual article talks about how gold nanoparticles are often made with super-strong reducing agents like sodium borohydride and how this is awesomely bad for the environment.
What the article doesn't mention is who made the very first gold nanoparticles, or how they were made.
It was Michael Faraday (yes, that Faraday), who made them using a reducing agent called. . . phosphorus. Horribly toxic, world-destroying . . . Oh, wait, it's safe. Never mind.
There are 80 thousand ways to make AuNPs, the reason the strong reducing agents are usually used is because it's simply a quicker reaction, or because you want them there to activate something else you are sticking to the surface of the nanoparticle.
Now, the part about the cinnamon extracts stabilizing the AuNPs in physiological conditions, that might be more impressive - I'm not familiar with work in that area. But the toxicity part is nothing more than a cry for attention.
My sister opened a computer store in Hawaii. She sells C shells by the seashore.
Gold? Cinnamon? It's a delicious discovery for science! See, it's not toxic at all, we can drink a ton of it!
Even without the toxic-by-the-ton ethyl-alcohol in Goldschläger, true cinnamon actually contains a small amount of coumarin (used as rat poison in concentrated forms, or processed into a blood thinner for heart surgery patients)...
And of course if Goldschläger cheaped out and uses the "fake" cassia cinnamon, it would actually have even more coumarin...
On the other hand, a Goldschläger challenge seems much less harmful than a cinnamon challenge (a description of which used to be on wikipedia, but apparently it's been edited out after this revision)
He's just resting.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
the DEA has moved to make spice illegal, so we have to go back to using the extremely toxic chemicals to make our gold nanoparticles...
Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.
They're toast.
Every time a new use is found for something we seem to pay through the neck. Rice, corn, potatoes and wheat can all make fuel for your car or be mixed with gasoline. Anyone priced a bag of spuds lately. Corn is now so expensive that there have been riots in Mexico as they can't make their taco shells. If cinnamon finds industrial uses my toast may never be the same.
They mixed gold salts with a common spice – cinnamon – and stirred the mixture in water
I wonder, how does gold salt taste compared to iodised salt? And with a pinch of cinnamon thrown in... I might have to try it with the rice porridge for xmas.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/r26726612j2r8336/fulltext.html
...but do they know why kids love the taste of Cinnamon TAust Crunch?
"I see you do much working with the spice... you make paper... plastics... and isn't that chemical explosives?"....
The spice... nanoparticles... travelling without moving... Arrakis... desert planet...
Do Frankincense and Myrrh also work?
Tigers love pepper. They hate cinnamon.
Tigers hate cinnamon, everybody knows that.
Something witty.