We’re ranking danger here. I’d much rather be in the room with dilute peroxide and vinegar than with chloramine or chlorine.
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The dose makes the poison. At the concentrations you’d get from household precursors, it would be fine.
Now, take glacial acetic acid and treat it with high-concentration peroxide? Now you’ve got something there. But most people don’t have easy access to either.
Chloroform is the third most dangerous thing on that list.
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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•It always bugs me when a character makes this mistake, which happens WAY TOO OFTEN
2·4 months agoI understand you’re not coming from a place of malice. But consider that not understanding why something is important is not a great reason to consider it unimportant if, nearly universally, experts consider it important.
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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•It always bugs me when a character makes this mistake, which happens WAY TOO OFTEN
6·4 months agodorks
Some of us use the Kelvin scale on a nearly daily basis in our jobs that primarily focus on sweating the small details.
This image is a reference to things like this, where you send dry (containing low water content) solvent through a column of activated alumina to make it even more dry.
It doesn’t really work as well with some solvents. The one I used in grad school had DCM, toluene, THF, and acetonitrile. If we needed dry DMSO, DMF, DMAc, acetone, MEK, or alcohols they had to come from a sealed bottle.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump, 79, Stuns With Inability to Flip a Coin: ‘Worst in History’
4·4 months agoSame problem as in 2016. Everyone assumed they’d beat Trump. Their main opposition would be in the primaries, because nobody would really vote for him, right?
Wrong, twice. And as bad as the first term felt, this one has been so much more catastrophic.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump, 79, Stuns With Inability to Flip a Coin: ‘Worst in History’
292·4 months agoI am once again begging people to not post headlines that start with “Trump, 79,” that doesn’t end with. Well. You know.
Lol good luck getting boomers to look at grey text on light grey backgrounds
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Technology@beehaw.org•IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs
5·4 months agoI used to work at IBM. This guy is a classic case of manager brainrot and has filled the top few tiers of the company with the same. The only reason they make money is the rank and file know how to feed them trendy bullshit that makes them feel smart, which happens to also be a good way of separating other companies’ dumb C-suite types from their money.
But even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while.
Well, first it’s fire.
Graduate students famously never make mistakes (like including their own hair in samples) and also never smoke weed. So that couldn’t be it.
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World News@quokk.au•Russian cosmodrome damaged after Soyuz launch to ISS
1·4 months agoIt’s the structure that rolls under the rocket to allow techs to work on the engines and stuff while it’s vertical. It rolls out of the way, behind some heat shielding, before and during launch. Looks like the heat shielding failed or it moved, either way it got cooked.
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•What's the coolest organic compound, chat?English
2·4 months agoA redneck missing half his teeth can make meth in a Gatorade bottle in a Wal-Mart bathroom. I could probably figure it out. But that would be pretty bad for my career.
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•What's the coolest organic compound, chat?English
10·4 months agoAs an actual professional organic chemist, ironically, these make my eyes hurt.
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News@lemmy.world•Judge dismisses Comey, James indictments after finding that prosecutor was illegally appointed
7·5 months agoIn this case, they tried to weaponize the law against an enemy and it didn’t work.
Let’s see what they do next. Do they drop it? Does he suddenly fall down some stairs or shoot himself in the back of the head three times? Basically, are they wannabe fascists or the real thing?
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump, 79, Posts Early Morning Meltdown Over Approval Ratings
777·5 months agoI am once again begging people to not post headlines that start with “Trump, 79,” that doesn’t end with. Well. You know.
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politics @lemmy.world•Trump, 79, chickens out of public showdown with Mamdani, 34
331·5 months agoI am once again begging people to not post headlines that start with “Trump, 79,” that doesn’t end with. Well. You know. The start of the party.
It was such a godawful movie but this got a chuckle

Ah, it’s fine. RAM’s cheap.
Wait, what now? Oh. Oh dear.