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Re: Making chloroform so I can sleep better at night [video]

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Post by TylerE »

Waterluvian wrote: post #124
mrguyorama wrote: post #69

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Professional wrestling got a lot more fun and cool when I realized it isn't "fake", because it isn't trying to be real because it's actually supposed to be modern day Shakespeare

Same! Learning it was fake ruined it. And then realizing that it’s in on being “fake” and that it’s a soap opera made me appreciate it a lot. And “fake” may cover the results of the matches but it doesn’t cover how intense it is on their bodies. Olympic wrestling is probably a far easier sport on the body.

I got into it pretty hardcore after hearing an NPR doc on the Montreal Screwjob.

Re: Making chloroform so I can sleep better at night [video]

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Post by iSnow »

xkcd-sucks wrote: post #18

Chloroform is great for extractions (if you don't care about the environment) because it sinks to the bottom of a sep funnel, but the thing about it being a knockout gas or sleep aid is complete BS. Based on an unpublished study of about 4 degenerate chemistry undergrads: - It PROBABLY takes several minutes of inhalation through a saturated rag to induce full loss of consciousness, although shorter times do produce n…

Holy lord, how do I join your curriculum? The topics look like straight out of Derek Lowe's "Things I won't work with"

Re: Making chloroform so I can sleep better at night [video]

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Post by TylerE »

int_19h wrote: post #126
kyleblarson wrote: post #36

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Suppressed subsonic 300 blackout is pretty darn close to the movies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AUDVoGOCxw

Not when you're standing right next to it with no ear protection. The peak is still going to be on the order of 115-125 dB at the muzzle even with the best can. This is well within hearing-safe territory ( As others have noted, recording equipment doesn't register these levels reliably, so watching a recording does not reflect the actual experience.

Uh… the highest limit osha has on sound levels is 115db. 140 is a jet engine. A chainsaw is 110

Re: Making chloroform so I can sleep better at night [video]

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Post by codr7 »

ajb wrote: post #119
labrador wrote: post #17

I'm a recovering nitrous oxide addict so this is interesting, but people should proceed with caution. I didn't know laughing gas could be addictive for some people until it was too late. In the film Cider House Rules, Michael Caine plays a doctor addicted to ether for sleep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cider_House_Rules_(film) Google result: Is chloroform stronger than ether? Fluothane and chloroform produced si…

Random question: I've been hearing this strange clarinet-like noise in my area - exactly like someone practising the clarinet except only one note, never a tune or scales. After puzzling this over for some time the only thing I can think that it might be, is someone going a balloon with nitrous. Is that plausible?

Nada Yoga :)

Re: Making chloroform so I can sleep better at night [video]

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Post by brutusborn »

toss1 wrote: post #82
joosters wrote: post #51

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But my lab manager did walk in at one point and immediately recoiled from the fumes (which we were nose-deaf to at that point). I don't know whether it's true or not, but I remember a chemistry lecturer telling me that you don't need to worry about terrible smells in the lab, our noses are sensitive to extremely miniscule levels of chemicals. It's when the levels are so high that they have overpowered our senses and…

Yup, similar to frostbite. Normal skin temp is around 86°F. as it is cooled, it goes from cool to cold sensation, to very painful at around 55°F. Below that, you don't feel anything as it continues to cool to the point where it freezes solid (which wouldn't be a problem if the freeze-thaw cycle didn't create so many little spiny ice structures that break the cell walls; a type of frog has 'anti-freeze' in it's makeup…

I noticed a similar effect getting 3rd degree burns. It was very painful for a moment, then much less painful as the nerves burnt away.

Re: Making chloroform so I can sleep better at night [video]

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Post by mnw21cam »

int_19h wrote: post #125
LeifCarrotson wrote: post #50

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> Harm reduction re: consumption of USP 99.9% ethanol According to Ignition! by John Clark, high-purity ethanol used for rocket fuel undergoes a similar phenomenon when in storage tanks near rocket scientists and Navy personnel. Interesting to see that this also occurs in the proximity of undergrads. Study operators claimed that dissolving the ethanol in H2O, or, preferably, lime juice and/or soda water, merits furth…

The earliest HDDs were not sealed and required regular maintenance to clean the heads manually; you were supposed to use ethanol or isopropanol for that purpose. There was a story from late Soviet times about this - since they lagged quite badly when it came to computing, even in late 80s there was still plenty of hardware around like that. And for every such hard drive, there would be accounting to track the amount…

If you liked that story, you'll love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKoHMXggEHU

Re: Making chloroform so I can sleep better at night [video]

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Post by Roverlord »

sterlind wrote: post #106
azalemeth wrote: post #93

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The garlic like smell of DMSO just doesn't leave you if it gets into your skin. It's "safe" but really, really bad to have fingertips smelling of it for days. I wish I had those bovine gloves during my PhD...

isn't DMSO used as a (home?) remedy for joint pain? I've thought about trying it but have visions of it leaching the dye from my clothing and transporting it into my bloodstream. the garlic wouldn't make me many friends, but dissolving poisons is scarier.

The weird death of Gloria Ramirez that I heard about years ago has apparently been linked to topical DMSO as a factor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXBCIzkannw

Re: Making chloroform so I can sleep better at night [video]

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Post by mnw21cam »

andrewflnr wrote: post #102
post-it wrote: post #89

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Same reason the O in CO2 isn't accessible. Oxygen is used as an oxidizer in the slow burn that is human respiration. N2O is already "burnt", so your body can't burn it any further to release energy.

That contradicts "nitrous is an oxidant". Or at minimum, makes it more complicated.

Chlorine is an oxidising agent as well, but you don't want to be breathing that.

Re: Making chloroform so I can sleep better at night [video]

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Post by andrewflnr »

mnw21cam wrote: post #148
andrewflnr wrote: post #102

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That contradicts "nitrous is an oxidant". Or at minimum, makes it more complicated.

Chlorine is an oxidising agent as well, but you don't want to be breathing that.

Yes, but again, for rather the opposite reason than CO2.

Re: Making chloroform so I can sleep better at night [video]

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Post by labrador »

ddevault wrote: post #131
sterlind wrote: post #108

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I'm sure you know but PSA for those that don't: N2O is practically the only "safe" inhalant. Others, like gasoline, computer duster, urinal pucks, etc. have a risk of causing spontaneous heart attacks even in young healthy users. N2O's main physical risk is B12 deficiency, or asphyxiating if you use a mask.

In addition to the risk of sudden death, even on the first use, they cause permanent brain damage with each use and regular use will reduce you to a gibbering shell of yourself from which you cannot recover -- and then you'll probably die. Recreational use is incredibly dangerous and this is one category that you should probably put into the "never use" group. Much worse than any common recreational drugs, including…

With fentynal getting into everything I'd say it's far more dangerous to take a substance orally or by injection that it is to inhale nitrous oxide which fentynal can't get into
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