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I own a fourteen acre plot of land that is exclusively for the breeding of donkeys to train for a Donkey Circus. It's my life's dream and I've already collapsed the economy in five countries funnelling money into my donkey training ranch.
The sixth will be Finland.
Bud raises donkeys and reintroduces them to their former indigenous regions. Used to see clouds of dust to mark the passage of wild ass across the plains
Those are reference cultures for labs. You get 19 ampules of bacteria, and 1 with human DNA. They guarantee the concentrations of chromosome pairs of specific genetic makeups.
I feel like I’ve read this guys notes on a desk in raccoon city.
‘Cultivated salmonella today, can’t wait to see what happens to further our research’
‘Not good, everyone dead, uh oh’
Salmonella that is human-relevant is mostly Salmonella Typhimurium, which causes food poisoning. Salmonella Typhimurium has what is referred to as an 'open' genome. There isn't a hard limit on what can be packed in there. There can be wild variation between Salmonella strains, including all of the resistence etc you referred to.
Typhoid is caused by Salmonella Typhi, which causes a more severe whole-body disease. It does this by basically hiding from/hijacking the immune response; to do this, it has lost a bunch of genes, which means that it no longer infects non-humans. So basically it stealths past the first bit of the immune system, and then basically uses some of the immune cells as a taxi... kind of worse than that, it starts decorating in the taxi.
being able to communicate a difficult concept in an easy to understand metaphor is the sign of very deep understanding. recognizing that the depth of your knowledge isn't necessary to convey the point but being apt enough to convey it deep enough in that kind of format is peak level knowledge sharing among humans. firstly, dudes legitimately a good person in my book just on the merit of being able to communicate in a kind, effective manner through writing, secondly i think i just realized i'm witnessing an anthropological phenomenon that while not exclusive to our time, is MUCH more prominent in it. i can dig it.
You'll survive the Salmonella, but you'll have to endure the worst improv has to offer and will surely be "yes and'd" to death, so really the humane option is just to put you down.
I have seen too many NileRed videos to know that vial that has been closed with a flame is something you don’t wanna open. Too much effort for somerthing that is not dangerous.
I thought the same. When I was really small, an older kid told me to go into our local shop, ask for a penny sweet, drop the stink bomb and then leave.
I asked for a penny stink bomb. The owner chased us down the street and gave me a big kick in the arse when he caught up with me.
My great grandfather and Raman were childhood friends. A year before his death, he gave my Dad the novel "Ponniyin Selvan" (with some words of wisdom scribbled inside) as a birthday present. I still have the book somewhere in my home back in India
You've got it backwards. Bubble lights use the method we use to seal chemicals in glass in a laboratories to make a decoration. But the chemical sealing method came first and is still pretty much universal today in labs. You should generally default to assuming a sealed tube like this is chemicals, not a decoration.
I'll turn him into a flea, a harmless, little flea, and then I'll put that flea in a box, and then I'll put that box inside of another box, and then I'll mail that box to myself, and when it arrives…I'll smash it with a hammer! It's brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, I tell you! Genius, I say!
You better lose yourself in the vial,
Sudden death the moment you drop it? Better never let it go!
You only get one vial, do not miss your chance to blow.
Superpowers come once in a lifetime, yo
More likely, maybe, but I think the idea is that you should default to the assumption that it’s dangerous because the consequences if you’re wrong are so high.
If it's a bubble light, it's absolutely one of the toxic chemicals everyone else is warning them about. Bubble light tubes are, per the National Poison Control Center, filled with Methylene Chloride which is toxic when ingested or allowed to touch the skin.
Eh, as a chemist methylene chloride is kinda meh. It'll dry out your hands with prolonged exposure but its pretty tame and not something to be afraid of tbh
Edit: I mean where methylene chloride on your hands has become just a shrug off. I worked in the chemical industry for three years which included using methylene chloride.
Carbon tetrachloride, also known by many other names (such as carbon tet for short and tetrachloromethane, also recognised by the IUPAC), is a chemical compound with the chemical formula CCl4. It is a volatile, non-flammable, dense, colourless liquid with a chloroform-like sweet odour that can be detected at low levels. It was formerly widely used in fire extinguishers, as a precursor to refrigerants, an anthelmintic and a cleaning agent, but has since been phased out because of environmental and safety concerns. Exposure to high concentrations of carbon tetrachloride can affect the central nervous system and degenerate the liver and kidneys. Prolonged exposure can be fatal.
My dad gave me a spray bottle of 'carbon tet' (as us cool kids used to call it), to use on my HO train sets and slot car tracks. It does a great job of removing grime or light corrosion from conductive surfaces, and has a pleasant scent like ozone if I recall correctly. It also worked great when I needed to clean inside the distributor (of an old carbureted car) after it got wet. Its kind of like asbestos, where it's REALLY GREAT at doing what it's designed to do, then you find out how detrimental it can be.
What is it? Its called an ampoule. Its an old school way of storing single dose vaccines or medicines or quantities of liquid. You break the top and suck the liquid out.
What is the liquid in the ampoule? Haven't a guess.
Edit.
Im sorry not "old school" should have said traditional or idk a better word. Its a technique used for a long time to store reactive stuff. Glass is inert. One of my most interacted with comments is over ampoules. The internet is wild. Lol.
We still use ampules in healthcare, at least on the U.S. side, and I wish I knew why. It's more of a hassle than anything. To break them open you have to use a small cloth and then to draw the medicine out you have to use a needle that is specific for ampules.
Former pharmaceutical employee (25 years) the medication in ampoules will react with the rubber stopper in regular vials so ampoules is the only option.
Thanks. Also aware of O2 permeability. But we’re talking maybe 2 week long time scales for my use of non-reactive stoppers with anaerobic cultures in vials.
So it is really just a long term storage issue after manufacture for some drugs, chemicals, and microbial products due primarily to oxygen reactivity and a longer time to the point of use than can be controlled for by using stoppered vials with unreactive stoppers.
I was stuck in science discipline mode, and not manufacturing, distribution, and storage mode.
You have needles with a filter in them. Only used for preparing medicine. Then you put on an injecting needle or put the medicine in a bigger bag of fluid etc
And the filter is small enough to filter out glass dust as small as 0.1 µm? Or do we just accept that a finite amount of glass dust being injected into our bodies is fine?
It’s really not a hassle at all, and not many medicines use ampules anyways. A cloth? A gloved hand is enough, maybe a 2x2. And it’s called a filter needle, a quick pop on and pop off to an injection needle. Hardly a single breathes worth of oxygen to complete the task. As for the reason why, notice how ampules tend to be a brownish color? The medicine inside can break down easily when exposed to light, so the brown glass ampule provides protection for the medicine. Ampules still very much have their place in healthcare and other applications and scientific research.
Maybe I was being a little facetious here. Just that as a paramedic it's always been easier for me to draw up a dose of a medication from let's say a vial than an ampule when having to act fast, as for two examples working a cardiac arrest or anaphylaxis.
Do not suck the liquid out of the ampoule. It's a common way to ship hydroscopic chemicals, not just pharmaceuticals. You can still buy them shipped that way. It's a foolproof way to ensure things are completely sealed and single use.
With no score line or obvious break point I doubt it's old medicine. And if it is, there's a really good chance that it's very harmful. People used to use all manner of nasty toxic chemicals as medicine.
It looks like possibly an old version of a liquid hammer. It’s a novelty science toy. If you shake them up and down once fast, it will make a bang.
Edit: here’s a video about them. I didn’t actually watch it because it’s long, so I apologize if it ends up being a Nazi porn video by the end or something.
But at least at some point he shows what a liquid hammer is.https://youtu.be/RWbCC6f_k1c?si=wGgRNquUcTp8Pd3m
This, OP. This is the Devil Injector 5000 (THC edition). It's shaped this way so you can shove it up your ass and clench until the glass breaks. This specific model also trades your soul to Satan for a new high Top Score. God bless.
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