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  1. Well yes that's exactly what you're doing -

     

    Composition of chalk

     

    Composition of Calcium tablets

     

     

     

    The occurrence of enzymes etc, with a chemical, does not change that chemical's molecular structure. Putting enzymes, dust and pepper in sugar just gives you sugar with enzymes, dust and pepper. The sugar itself is the same, man made or no.

     

     

     

    I'll bet you a beer, that it's an excess of MSG you're getting, too much keeps me awake at night. The 'natural' stuff on kelp etc is present in really small quantities, so you're unlikely to get the same leg pain. To test this, you could get boxes and boxes of the kelp and scrape off all the white powder until you had about a tablespoon of it. Put that in yer Som Tam, it's about how much they put in here, way too much.

     

     

     

    Whilst you cannot 'invent' a naturally occurring chemical, you are essentially correct:

     

    Kikunae Ikeda from the Tokyo Imperial University isolated glutamic acid as a new taste substance in 1908 from the seaweed Laminaria japonica, kombu, by aqueous extraction and crystallization, and named its taste "umami". He noticed that dashi, the Japanese broth of katsuobushi and kombu, had a peculiar taste that had not been scientifically described at that time and differed from sweet, salty, sour and bitter. To verify that ionized glutamate was responsible for the umami taste, Professor Ikeda studied the taste properties of many glutamate salts such as calcium, potassium, ammonium, and magnesium glutamate. All salts elicited umami in addition to a certain metallic taste due to the other minerals. Among those salts, sodium glutamate was the most soluble and palatable, and crystallized easily. Professor Ikeda named this product monosodium glutamate and submitted a patent to produce MSG. Suzuki brothers started the first commercial production of MSG in 1909 as Aji-no-moto, meaning "essence of taste" in English Wiki woo

     

     

    :)

     

     

    All of this is true. We have not done it a lot, but from the "for fun" tests we did, we could not tell flat out from the lab GMO corn from the garden variety with flame chromatography.

  2. Mekong, good info, thanks!

     

    In January this year I had a CD mature and no hassles at all. Scooped up the cash and took it to another

    bank at a higher interest rate, so this time was a surprise!

     

    Also, this time, the interests are about 1% lower then even in January of this year!!

     

    Looks like us yanks are in for a good yanking by the US gov...

     

    They have to pay for ObamaCare, the war without end, and trips to China with something.

  3. Do a google....you will get About 2,450,000 results....

     

    http://www.cchrint.o...al-malik-hasan/

     

    Duty to Warn: The Fort Hood Murders/Suicide and the Taboo Question – Were brain & behavior-altering drugs involved?

     

     

    The huge missing “elephant in the room†is the high likelihood that Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan was medicated with potent brain-altering psychiatric drugs. These would be drugs that Dr. Hasan had easy access to and which he was probably prescribing widely to his psychologically traumatized soldier-patients, unaware of the serious dangers to them or to himself. These popular, aggressively marketed, highly profitable drugs are known to cause a number of serious adverse effects including hostility, suicidality, sleep alteration, depression, mania and psychotic episodes.

     

    Number of hits make it true?

     

    Seriously though, I saw that one but it read like rumor and innuendo. They never fail to report these things in other cases and I know they did blood work on him.

     

    My point is, he seems to have actually been on nothing. (Which would be in keeping with strict Islamic teaching.) Some people, are just crazy.

  4. Not only the military...all the high school shootings over the past few years, same-same, all were on

    these heavy duty psyco-drugs...that is the thread that brings it all together? maybe :dunno:

     

    What drugs was Nidal Malik Hasan on again?

  5. Deadly chemical weapons, buried and lost, lurk under U.S. soil

     

    I am well aware of this. :p

     

     

    http://www.latimes.c...y#ixzz2wl6DTiyM

     

    Yea, how does anyone not know this...? One of my last jobs on Active Duty was overseeing the clean up of one of these places. Here is the funny part: since it was not illegal to bury it at the time, we had very precise (and damn near invaluable!) records on what was there and where it was. Our method was to literally freeze the ground, take it up, and run it through a huge industrial blow furnace to destroy the bad stuff. Big 60 Minutes episode was filmed there.

     

    All at Fr Bragg, NC.

  6. I will give Villa a look next time I am in BKK.

     

    We have a Foodland out here but need to have another look there as often I find items stuck away in unlikely places.

     

    Thanks!

     

    Yea you got that right. I have a photo somewhere from a Big C I think of pool chlorine on a shelf above motor oil. (For the non-chemists or pyros out there, this stuff spontaneously combusts violently when mixed in very small amounts.)

  7. Now the VA accepts that agent orange caused a lot of damage to the US soldiers (and others)...you don't know of this ruling?

     

    If the VA gets off the $$$ and resources to finally take care of out soldiers, that is clear enough for me.

     

    Answer the question please:

     

    Is just flat out impossible that the cancer of the 70 people on that ship could be unrelated to the accident in Japan?

     


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  8. That is 70 that the Navy admits to being sick...check in 20 years from now...remember agent orange, the harmless chemical???

     

    Let me guess.... It is just flat out impossible that could be something unrelated, right?

  9. It is really a rather mediocre weapon, not very accurate. However, it is cheap to make and so simple that almost anyone can use it ... and it is nearly indestructible. It throws out a lot of lead and is deadly at fairly close ranges. It is amazing that it is still in so much use these days.

     

  10. USS Ronald Reagan Crew Members Sick With Cancer Three Years After Fukushima Contamination

     

     

    Nearly three years after the destruction of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, at least 70 U.S. Navy sailors who participated in relief efforts after the accident have been suffering from radiation sickness and even cancer as the crew of the USS Ronald Reagan was exposed to fallout.

     

    70.... out of 6000...? wow... (kind of... well maybe a little "wow")

  11. HS, congratulations on your wife getting US citizenship. My wife has been eligible to get US citizenship for almost 2 years but has no desire to get it. My 19 year old step son barely graduated from HS last May and had a laid back summer. He goes to court on Monday for kicking 2 holes in my house. I talked to the DA and have an understanding that the charges will be dropped on completion of some anger management sessions and paying court costs and joining the National Guard. He will never go to a 4 year college but maybe, givien time, a 2 year program may look good to him. The 23 year old step daughter decided to drop out of college after breaking up with herboy friend. As she had changed to hotel management ( her 3rd major change), I didn't try to stop her. She does have potential, so I hope that she will go back eventually. No such worries about the16 year old, who is both smart and determined. So far, she has straight "A"'s in college Advance Placement courses in Math and science. Hopefully, she will get a full ride somewhere, or she will be living at home and attending a local college

     

    National Guard? I would send him to the Marines where they appreciate that stuff.

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