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ur-mag · 7 months
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Brit policewoman, 22, died in fall after being ‘plied with dodgy booze laced with toxic methanol in Kavos’ | In Trend Today
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maoam · 9 days
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Do you think Naruto and Sasuke could get drunk? Like, canonically speaking? I mean, alcohol technically metabolizes as methanol which is extremely toxic to the body, so it could be considered as some sort of poison or, at least, as a toxin. I mean, Sasuke is immune to them and Naruto has Kurama as a 24/7 liver healer. What you think about it? Just a shower thought.
This is a funny ask. Technically Sasuke I guess shouldn't be able to get drunk? I don't know about Naruto though, just because it doesn't hurt his liver, doesn't mean he can't get drunk? I think?
I'm thinking about them drinking sake, and Naruto just getting more wasted as minutes go by, while Sasuke is as sober as when he started... and he thinks Naruto is a bit annoying with his slurring, but his red nose is kinda cute.
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The search is on worldwide to find ways to extract carbon dioxide from the air or from power plant exhaust and then make it into something useful. One of the more promising ideas is to make it into a stable fuel that can replace fossil fuels in some applications. But most such conversion processes have had problems with low carbon efficiency, or they produce fuels that can be hard to handle, toxic, or flammable. Now, researchers at MIT and Harvard University have developed an efficient process that can convert carbon dioxide into formate, a liquid or solid material that can be used like hydrogen or methanol to power a fuel cell and generate electricity. Potassium or sodium formate, already produced at industrial scales and commonly used as a de-icer for roads and sidewalks, is nontoxic, nonflammable, easy to store and transport, and can remain stable in ordinary steel tanks to be used months, or even years, after its production.
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emsee22 · 2 days
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Focusing on the very bottom right of the board, it says "Refinery" C2H5OH which is a chemical formula for ethyl hydrate or ethanol. The CRM is possibly making ethanol in their refineries, and this is possibly related to the current theories circulating about Pharmakon which can be a "poison or a cure" Ethanol is present in alcoholic drinks (beer, wine, spirits) when diluted. It is used as a topical agent to prevent skin infections, in pharmaceutical preparations (e.g. rubbing compounds, lotions, tonics, colognes), cosmetics, and in perfumes. https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/protection/npi/substances/fact-sheets/ethanol-ethyl-alcohol#:~:text=Ethanol%20is%20present%20in%20alcoholic,%2C%20cosmetics%2C%20and%20in%20perfumes.
This prompted me to look up what moonshine is:
The fermentation process used to make moonshine produces alcohol in two forms: methanol and ethanol. Ethanol is the drinkable version. Methanol, known as wood alcohol, is a byproduct that’s toxic when large amounts end up in the finished product.
The distillation process that follows produces concentrated ethanol by boiling the fermented product. The problem moonshiners run into is ethanol has a boiling point of 173.1 degrees Fahrenheit while methanol’s boiling point is 148.5 degrees Fahrenheit. This means methanol evaporates at a faster rate than ethanol and can become concentrated. When done correctly, it only forms in small amounts and is easily separated out and discarded. Without the right equipment, high concentrations of methanol can end up in the drink.
What makes methanol so dangerous is the human body converts it to formaldehyde, an ingredient used to make embalming fluid. The body then converts formaldehyde into formic acid, a material that poisons the body’s cells. In large enough amounts, death is a real possibility. Not surprisingly, most of the dangers of drinking moonshine stem from the amount of methanol that may be present. https://sunshinebehavioralhealth.com/alcohol-addiction/moonshine/ Ok, so back to Pharmakon, the poison or the cure, remember when Beth said "My dad used to say bad moonshine can make you go blind" Also, bad moonshine can basically be formaldehyde, the chemical used in embalming fluid. Remember the funeral home in alone? The dots, they are connecting. I am getting sooo excited.
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cogitoergofun · 4 months
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A chemical manufacturing facility in Wisconsin has drawn the ire of the Food and Drug Administration for making hand sanitizer with the same equipment it uses to make products with toxic industrial solvents and chemicals, such as automotive brake parts cleaner. The practice is a clear violation of manufacturing standards and could lead to harmful cross-contamination, the FDA said.
The agency sent a warning letter dated October 26 to the maker of the hand sanitizer, Brenntag Great Lakes, LLC, in Wisconsin. The letter, which redacted the name of the hand sanitizer, stated that the agency had found "significant violations" in an inspection in the spring and that the company's responses since then were "inadequate."Toxic hand sanitizers became an alarming problem in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when demand for the germ-fighting gels skyrocketed and manufacturers rushed products to market. Hundreds of products that flooded the market were found to contain methanol, a toxic alcohol that can cause harm via inhalation, ingestion, and skin absorption. Use of the products leads to poisoning, blindness, and even death, the FDA reported.
Though methanol contamination is not the concern in this case, the FDA indicated Brenntag's hand sanitizer could be contaminated with class 2 solvents, which include those that have irreversible toxicity, including neurotoxicity.
The regulator noted that this isn't the first time FDA inspectors have warned Brenntag about using the same equipment to manufacture both toxic industrial products and the over-the-counter (OTC) hand sanitizer, which the FDA regulates as a drug product.
"This was noted during a previous inspection," the FDA wrote in the letter, "and as a corrective action you stated you would discontinue the use of non-dedicated blending tank equipment in the manufacture of OTC drug products. However, our investigator observed that you continued to use non-dedicated blending tank equipment to manufacture OTC drug products."
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The FDA went on to note other violations, including failures in quality control and compliance. It required Brenntag to submit a slew of documentation regarding remediation and assessments, and recommended the company hire a consultant to help. The FDA also noted that Brenntag had troubled inspections in 2014 and 2019 for similar problems.
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naturalrights-retard · 8 months
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During the COVID pandemic, the world was drowned in a flood of hand sanitizer. At my daughters’ school, every classroom had a tower dispenser right at the door, and kids were forced to apply every time they entered the room. Some kids took things even further, likely encouraged by their parents, keeping an extra bottle at their desk, applying routinely. My daughter told me one boy’s hands became so dry and chapped in the winter that they began to bleed.
Hand sanitizer was ubiquitous outside of schools, too. Banks, stores, cafes—everywhere people were, there was a dispenser nearby.https://read.amazon.com/kp/card?asin=B0C29RC8ZB&preview=inline&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_AZQ80W6J1K56WSHEQF17
Much evidence that hand sanitizer works well is based on controlled lab experiments—adding it to a dish containing bacteria or viruses and then determining what survives. Like controlled lab studies with masks, that doesn’t tell you much about how it works in the real world.
Early on it became clear that COVID was an airborne virus, which should have raised questions about the public’s obsession with hand sanitizer. That information should have raised the same question about masks, too. But as I wrote in my book Fear of a Microbial Planet many times about many of these things, that didn’t happen.
Hand sanitizer can even be considered harmful. Some cheap knockoffs produced during the pandemic contained methanol instead of ethanol or isopropyl alcohol, and methanol is toxic and can kill people. In some cases, it did. Little kids couldn’t really be expected to use hand sanitizer without it getting into places it shouldn’t be, like their eyes. Adverse gastrointestinal and central nervous system effects were also reported.
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trickricksblog08 · 1 year
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Watch "Major Incident! Barge Carrying 1,400 Tons of Toxic Methanol Sinking Into Ohio River Near Louisville" on YouTube
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reality-detective · 1 year
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DEVELOPING! Kentucky emergency officials are trying to corral several barges that are currently on the loose in the Ohio River. 
The state's Emergency Response Team said 10 out of 11 barges became loose from the tug early Tuesday morning. 
One of them is carrying 1,400 tons of methanol and is partially submerged at the McAlpine Dam. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says methanol "is a toxic alcohol that is used industrially as a solvent, pesticide, and alternative fuel source."
It is not clear if any methanol is leaking. 
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said no injured were reported from the accident. Authorities said the lock chambers at the McAlpine Locks and Dam are closed to traffic. 🤔
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sataniccapitalist · 1 year
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biochemjess · 2 years
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what do methanol poisoning and the asian flush have in common??
Aw! Now my mutuals are supporting my science habits. So, yeah, this is the exact same pathway. Bit of random science trivia incoming. You've been warned.
As we know, alcohol will kill you, so your body has a way of detoxing alcohol and (as a perk) turning it into energy. In your liver, the first enzyme leaps into action turning alcohol into acetaldehyde. The problem is that this is more dangerous (toxic) that alcohol. In most people this is rapidly broken down by the next enzyme in the detox cascade so it's not a problem. In some people (usually Asian descent) this second enzyme works poorly and acetaldehyde builds up causing the bright flush among a number of other nasty reactions.
Now while acetaldehyde is not good it gets worse with methanol.
Methanol itself is not really the big problem. The problem is that the enzyme that turns alcohol into acetaldehyde can't tell the difference between alcohol and methanol and attempts the same detox and creates...formaldehyde. If you're thinking, isn't that what the pickle bodies in, yeah... This is acutely toxic. It starts crosslinking all the proteins in your body into an absolutely mess. Then the next enzyme kicks in and turns formaldehyde into formic acid which is also acutely toxic.
The treatment for methanol poisoning is ethanol. The trick is to swamp the enzymes with so much of the right molecule (alcohol) that it can't turn methanol into formaldehyde and eventually methanol is cleared in the kidneys. (Today they use a substitute for ethanol so they don't get you drunk in the process.)
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ur-mag · 7 months
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Brit policewoman, 22, died in fall after being ‘plied with dodgy booze laced with toxic methanol in Kavos’ | In Trend Today
Brit policewoman, 22, died in fall after being ‘plied with dodgy booze laced with toxic methanol in Kavos’ Read Full Text or Full Article on MAG NEWS
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max--phillips · 2 years
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The Bubble: hot mess, a bit incoherent at points, dragged on
Triple Frontier: It's your dad's circle jerk style "relive our glory days but not really" vet movie, it's what you put on for all the dads and uncles after thanksgiving dinner and football. and the only reason it stays on with little complaint is because all the main characters are hot
WW84: don't take it too seriously, it took itself too seriously and suffered for it. one of the lettrbox reviews was basically "Pedro thinks he's in a dif movie, and idk if it's better or worse, but it is def funnier." and yeah, cause he leaned into the campiness of it
GC: A lot of problems, and not just the out of left field feeling of the Whiskey reveal.
the first one was "eccentric billionaire thinks population control is an urgent and necessary concern, gives out sim card that make phone's produce a frequency that causes extreme aggression and decreased inhibitions."
It's outlandish, but sounds vaguely plausible because we do know there are frequencies that we cannot consciously perceive that make us feel things (usually fear)
and over population has been a back of the mind concern since about the late 70s early 80s. cause all the boomers were old enough to have kids and the birthing trend was regularly multiple kids per family and infant mortality rates shot down very suddenly and blah, blah, blah....
GC's plot is "Drug cartel kingpin poisons their supply and holds all of their customers to ransom." now... this plan is stupid, not just in general, but in the world of kingsmen itself.
because the Valentine plan did work for about prob 20 in world minutes, considering how much of the bathroom door Eggsy's mom had gotten through by the time the whole thing was over
the world population has already been shot, now you're gonna do it again? and with your customers? huh?
also... illicit substances being poisoned to punish the people partaking in them has been done before... like actually in the real world done before.
during prohibition in the US cops and people who wanted to "clean up the neighborhood" would poison liquor before putting out on the market. with the justification being, "If they're gonna break the law, they may as well suffer some consequences." not seeming to comprehend that the crime and the punishment were extremely unequal.
Also, Kingsmen didn't have any scenes where it cut to the president openly stating he's on board with the idea of a mass culling, but GC had a few... and the only reason they didn't make him look and sound like nixon was because that rotten turnip was in office
what im saying is GC is a very bad movie and one i have a lot of issues with it on a narritive and moral level
All points above, agree. Like, the bubble was just… bad, and maybe a little tone deaf vis a vis timing but it wasn’t actively malicious (that I remember). Triple Frontier was exactly as stated above; I still hold out that it had potential that simply was not reached, but yeah. WW84 also had potential but unfortunately it was also not good but also also had some. Weird racism & pro-Israel propaganda. But yeah re: TGC I fully agree & I don’t have anything to add other than: people poisoned/cut their alcohol during prohibition with methanol, which is toxic. Also, do not forget that the war on drugs was 100% caused by the US government, and double also it’s the fed’s fault crack is a problem, and TRIPLE also the reason fentanyl is a problem right now is ALSO because of the feds. Anyway
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gwydionmisha · 2 years
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cogitoergofun · 1 year
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Texas is a notably easy place to set up shop for industrial projects with lots of liquid waste and nowhere good to put it. The state's waterways are open for business, an analysis of Environmental Protection Agency data shows, to send large volumes of discarded chemicals and industrial discharge downstream and out to sea. 
In a new report by Environment America, a Denver-based nonprofit, Texas ranks first among U.S. states for toxic discharges into streams, rivers and lakes, a title held by Indiana since the organization began analyzing nationwide water pollution in 2009, when Texas ranked fourth. 
The report drew from data that was self-reported by industrial facilities and logged with the EPA. It tallied 16.7 million pounds of toxic substances released into Texas water in 2020, up from 13.2 million in 2007.
"Texas has a pretty lax regulatory environment where it's very easy to permit new polluting facilities and very difficult to get fined for violations," said Luke Metzger, director of Environment Texas, the local affiliate of Environment America. "They know they'll likely get away with it."
He said penalties are low enough that companies can often still save money by flouting pollution laws and paying fines instead. 
Nitrate compounds — a common component of fertilizer runoff and industrial waste — account for up to 90 percent of total toxic releases reported by industry nationwide. The rest is made up of  heavy metals such as lead; solvents such as tetrachloroethylene, and manganese compounds, methanol and ammonia. It also includes small amounts of potent substances known as "persistent bioaccumulative toxics," which buildup in people and animals, including mercury and dioxin.
Many of these substances are known to make their ways from lakes and rivers to drinking water and breast milk. 
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