"MSG is bad for you" is a nasty trick played by people who don't want you to put miracle flavor powder in your food
and they're racist but you already knew that
it sounds "artificial" but for the first six decades of its existence as a product it was extracted from plants
For nine years (1962-1973) it was cheaper to synthesize it directly from acrylonitrile, as a side effect of Japan's new acrylic fiber industry. Since 1973 it has been produced by bacterial fermentation
note because this has "gone viral:" having a sensitivity or allergy to something doesn't mean it's bad for people's health in general, and the science is against those who believe it is dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/hand…
if you read scientific papers you will understand that the tone here is as close as they can get to saying "shut the fuck up and quit lying for clout" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28943112/
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The US government, through the Department of Health and Human Services provided funding to the Southwest Research Institute to develop a shelf-stable, acid-free device to synthesize poppers, presumably for use in the Middle East patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/f4/5b/b5/38830…
Patent also describes in detail two manual syntheses of alkyl nitrites, using DOWEX 50WX4-50 acidic cation exchange resin beads as a catalyst. The government caused the invention of a way to make poppers without using strong acid as a liquid-phase catalyst
probably of note in the first lower-yield synthesis was the "red-brown gas" that was evolved, signifying that the alkyl nitrite had undergone degradation into nitrogen dioxide and possibly nitric acid. I suspect that this is partially due to allowing it to warm to 20C.
an ebay alert of mine went off, one that's never gone off, for a computer part so vanishingly rare it might as well not exist. I bought it immediately and it's going in my next computer and I am gonna use the hell out of it
closest are the people who said zip/ditto drive but it's a lot rarer and wilder than that
it's a storage and playback device but I will give no further information. and it's not one of those audio cassette drives, I already have one
While looking at the replies to this thread, I noticed people claiming that the desert is "empty," "barren," or otherwise lifeless, in an almost kneejerk pro-extractivism reaction.
This isn't true. These deserts have rich, vibrant, and incredibly fragile ecosystems. A thread:
Primer: these are concentrated solar power plants, which use mirrors to focus sunlight on the tower in the middle, heating a working fluid to run turbines.
Concentrated solar power is generally regarded as an obsolete technology. Photovoltaic has beat it in cost for a decade.
The two CSP plants in the United States are the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project and the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility.
Ivanpah came online in 2013, Crescent Dunes in 2016. The former has three towers; the latter has one tower and a molten-salt energy storage system.
if I see one more person on here calling the desert "empty," "useless," or "barren" and using that as rationale for environmentally destructive resource extraction and exploitation I'm gonna fucking snap
am I gonna have to handcraft a thread about fragile desert ecosystems to go viral? what the fuck will it take
alright i'm writing it. i ask politely that folks retweet it because this is something that's making me actually angry (a rarity)
staff at the Ivanpah solar thermal plant coined the term "streamers" for the birds that would fall from the sky, trailing a stream of smoke, after flying into the concentrated solar flux