Kind of funny, if they left out the desiccant, so the humidity were higher, it seems you could do away the anti-static bag. (I know, I know...moisture could cause corrosion to metals as well as dissipate static electricity) Reminds me of the Steven Wright bit about buying a humidifier and a dehumidifier and putting them together in a room and letting them fight it out.
Getting near, even inside, my car does not expose me to gasoline. And it's an old car.;-)
OTOH, foods and beverages often deliberately contain benzoates.
Apparently, ascorbic acid, at least, can decarboxylate benzoate....
FDA re-opens probe into benzene contamination of soft drinks
By Chris Mercer, 15-Feb-2006
US food safety authorities have re-opened an investigation closed 15 years ago into soft drinks contaminated with cancer-causing chemical benzene, following evidence the industry has failed to sort out the problem, BeverageDaily.com can reveal.
A chemist at the Food And Drug Administration (FDA) said testing in recent weeks had revealed some soft drinks contaminated with benzene at levels above the legal limit for water set by the US and Europe.
Benzene is listed as a poisonous chemical shown to increase the risk of leukaemia and other cancers.
The FDA was originally alerted in 1990 to the problem of benzene in soft drinks triggered by the preservative sodium benzoate. It never made the findings public, but came to an arrangement with the US soft drinks association that the industry would "get the word out".
But in recent months, internal documents and private tests have begun to surface, supported by claims from a former chemist for Cadbury Schweppes, who is now keen to blow the whistle on the health risk involved. He and a US lawyer commissioned new tests that have now prompted the FDA to re-open the case.
These independent tests, performed by a laboratory in New York, found benzene levels in a couple of soft drinks two-and-a-half-times and five times above the World Health Organisation limit for drinking water (10 parts per billion).
The FDA now confirms it has found a similar problem in its own follow-up testing. "There were a few isolated products that have elevated levels. We certainly want to make sure there is some reformulation," said an FDA chemist.
The problem is caused by two common ingredients - sodium benzoate and ascorbic acid (vitamin C) - which can react together to cause benzene formation. It is considered completely separate from other outbreaks of benzene contamination due to faulty packaging in the 1990s.
The two ingredients are still used together in a wide range of soft drinks across the world.
The FDA was first alerted to the problem in December 1990 by Cadbury Schweppes and Australian drinks group Koala Springs, according to an internal FDA memo.
This prompted FDA testing that led the US Department of Health and Human Services to report, again in an internal memo: "Benzene formation occurs at part per billion (ppb) levels in some food formulations containing sodium benzoate and ascorbic acid [vitamin C]."
Wrong. Only one single US submarine ever used that design. Other boats have a secondary (electric) propulsion motor, but it only turns about 2 knots and is rarely used. Standard system uses steam turbines driving reduction gears driving the shaft. (I was a Machinist's Mate on a US ballistic missile submarine).
Parents do bear the responsibility for how their children are educated, and for this reason, they should be given the option to spend their tax dollars on the school of their choice, not be restricted to the standard government/union run schools.
I had thought it was benzoate + ascorbic acid that produced benzene, but I could see citric (another tricarboxylic, is it reducing?) acid might also. Someone please mod parent up informative.
The making it quiet part is achieved by minimizing turbulent flow, which is equivalent to minimizing drag, which means "more aerodynamic". The withstanding pressure part is accomplished by the double hull, of which the inner one, the pressure hull, is a simple tube with hemispherical ends. The outer hull is the part that can be shaped to achieve the desired flow characteristics.
Swine flu name wont be changed in Israel
By Marc Brodsky April 29, 2009
NEW YORK (JTA) -- The swine flu will not take any new names in Israel despite the unease of a health official from a fervently religious party.
Deputy health minister Yakov Litzman, a member of United Torah Judaism, said earlier this week that the name "swine flu" should not be used as it contains the name of the unkosher animal. Litzman suggested that authorities call the virus sweeping the globe "Mexican flu."
But Mexico's ambassador to Israel, Frederico Salas, and the Jewish state's envoy to Mexico, Yosef Livne, both lodged official complaints Tuesday to the Israeli Foreign Ministry protesting the term.
A Foreign Ministry official told the French news agency AFP that Salas "was offended" by the term "Mexican flu."
"Israel has no intention of giving the flu any new names," the official said. "It was nothing more than a slip of the tongue."
Two Israelis who recently returned from Mexico have contracted swine flu in the first such cases in the Middle East. Several other cases are suspected, including the 5-year-old niece of one of the confirmed cases.
Is it really energy addition needed to keep it going or is it an entropy reduction that's needed? (I know reducing entropy would take some energy but you get my point, I hope.)
Funny coincidence: Since I have a bank account at Washington Mutual which is about to no longer exist in name. I got a mass form letter from Chase Bank the other day informing me of this,... and it was signed by...Pedro Sanchez, West Region Manager.
Ummm, no. Fear is a protective response which has evolved to keep us from doing risky things. So it's really a good thing. Like pain, which keeps us from further injuring an already injured body part.
It's just that technological advances and cultural structures have far outpaced the rate of evolutionary change, so our fear response isn't optimally suited to the modern world in which we live.
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"...with antistatic bag and desiccant"
Kind of funny, if they left out the desiccant, so the humidity were higher, it seems you could do away the anti-static bag. (I know, I know...moisture could cause corrosion to metals as well as dissipate static electricity)
Reminds me of the Steven Wright bit about buying a humidifier and a dehumidifier and putting them together in a room and letting them fight it out.
Or it might be that he believes that *popular* sentiments may go against the rights of the minority, as did the Founding Fathers (TM).
I thought N could be any number, like FOR X = 1 to N....
Maybe 1800-0100 is NOT *outside* working hours for some people - i.e. they're not emailaholics, they're WORKaholics.
No, he gets it from Oprah, in the form of KFC coupons, which he puts in envelopes marked "AFDC" and sends out to the masses. C'mon, basic economics!
Insightful it is, then.
Latin hasn't been prescribed since Vatican II, back in the 1960s. Where did you get that idea?
Yes, don't forget Abdullah ...wait, who is he?
Yes, only ppb. Very small amounts.
Wrong. Only one single US submarine ever used that design. Other boats have a secondary (electric) propulsion motor, but it only turns about 2 knots and is rarely used. Standard system uses steam turbines driving reduction gears driving the shaft. (I was a Machinist's Mate on a US ballistic missile submarine).
Parents do bear the responsibility for how their children are educated, and for this reason, they should be given the option to spend their tax dollars on the school of their choice, not be restricted to the standard government/union run schools.
I had thought it was benzoate + ascorbic acid that produced benzene, but I could see citric (another tricarboxylic, is it reducing?) acid might also.
Someone please mod parent up informative.
The making it quiet part is achieved by minimizing turbulent flow, which is equivalent to minimizing drag, which means "more aerodynamic". The withstanding pressure part is accomplished by the double hull, of which the inner one, the pressure hull, is a simple tube with hemispherical ends. The outer hull is the part that can be shaped to achieve the desired flow characteristics.
Don't *all* numbers consist of just ones and zeros ? C'mon this is Slashdot!
Is it really energy addition needed to keep it going or is it an entropy reduction that's needed? (I know reducing entropy would take some energy but you get my point, I hope.)
[Pointy end first = most aerodynamic] is not necessarily true.
Why do submarines have the big round end in front and the pointy end at the rear?
That's actually what Israel is calling it. I guess "swine flu" isn't kosher.
Maybe you could just look at a few interesting pixels and decide which images to keep based on those few pixels changing?
You should learn to recognize a joke.
Maybe you should try journalism instead of history.
Funny coincidence: Since I have a bank account at Washington Mutual which is about to no longer exist in name. I got a mass form letter from Chase Bank the other day informing me of this,... and it was signed by ...Pedro Sanchez, West Region Manager.
Ummm, no. Fear is a protective response which has evolved to keep us from doing risky things. So it's really a good thing. Like pain, which keeps us from further injuring an already injured body part. It's just that technological advances and cultural structures have far outpaced the rate of evolutionary change, so our fear response isn't optimally suited to the modern world in which we live.
Well, it's a great idea ON PAPER, but...
Hmm, I'd never heard of coffee or caffeine as a treatment for hypoxia. I'll be sure to NOT try that.