09:38 – I just shipped a core forensic science kit, which includes a bottle of Kastle-Meyer reagent. I add that bottle immediately before sealing the box, because we store KM reagent refrigerated to extend its shelf life. That bottle of KM reagent was the last one we had in stock, so it’s time to make up more.
I’m probably being more cautious than necessary. KM reagent is inherently unstable by design, but it’s actual pretty damned stable if stored under an inert atmosphere in a nearly full amber glass bottle with a granule or two of zinc metal to prevent oxidation, and an airtight cap. Unopened, that bottle should remain stable for years. So I’m debating making up a new batch of 30 or 60 bottles rather than the usual 15.
Not that it’s a big deal to make the stuff up in small batches. It just a matter of making up a 40% w/v solution of potassium hydroxide, dissolving enough phenolphthalein powder in the alkaline solution to make it 4% w/r to phenolphthalein, refluxing for half an hour or so over metallic zinc to reduce the phenolphthalein to phenolphthalin, and then making up the solution to double the initial volume with 70% ethanol.
11:34 – A man after my own heart.
I just shipped a core forensic science kit, which includes a bottle of Kastle-Meyer reagent.
Have you thought about what you are going to do if a police department or someone else in a authority position orders one of these? You could potentially be called to testify in a trial by either side.
Unlikely. KM reagent is a presumptive test for blood, which legally means the results of the test are not admissible evidence. KM reagent is used to screen for blood, but it yields false positives with numerous materials, from some heavy metal salts to horseradish. If KM indicates the possible presence of blood, confirmatory tests are then used. The results of those tests are admissible.
Two reactions to the video and two predictions:
1.) nicely done, he speaks very well and without slipping up once.
2.) very amusing, also. nice job.
1.) His stuff will last a long time, if not forever, so long as we have electricity and so long as some tyrant like Barry Soetero or the next President, like the Mooch or HILLARY!, does not flip the OFF switch for the internet.
2.) Either a state bureaucracy will shut him down and arrest him for ‘hate speech’, especially the way things are going now over in the UK, or…and I hope neither of these ever comes true; some hadji fucks over there will get to him and do a beheading and tape it and put that out on the net, like they’ve already done a number of times, with journalists, POW’s and Christian clergy.
I hope nothing bad happens to Pat. I suspect he’d be safer here than in England, but I don’t expect to see him grabbed by muslim terrorists even there. I don’t have any respect for muslim terrorists. They’re cowards. They’ll grab hostages only as long as there’s no danger in doing so. I wouldn’t want to be Condell walking the streets of, say, Mecca or Cairo, but I suspect he’s safe enough where he is.
Speaking of terrorist cowards, I’m reminded of an incident that took place in Rhodesia in 1979. Terrorists–I’m not sure if they were Mugabe’s or Nkomo’s–stopped a civilian bus with AK-47 fire. The first person off the bus was an elderly lady, who was fishing around in her purse. She pulled out a .25 ACP pistol and started popping away at the terrorists. They fled.
Who is the Mooch?
1.) His stuff will last a long time, if not forever, so long as we have electricity and so long as some tyrant like Barry Soetero or the next President, like the Mooch or HILLARY!, does not flip the OFF switch for the internet.
Nehemiah Scudder will shut down the internet on his first day in office.
http://issuepedia.org/Nehemiah_Scudder
Hilary may wait until she has been Pres for 2 or 3 weeks.
“…an incident that took place in Rhodesia in 1979.”
Yeah, when it was still Rhodesia and the head bonz was Ian Smith, a good guy. RIP. Shortly after my discharge from active duty and rotation back to CONUS I got a call from Rhodesian defense recruiters interested in my abilities/talents/experience, whatever, for their anti-terr strike forces in the bush at $500/month. I almost went for it, too, but settled my adrenalin fix as a small-town cop in MA for a while, responding to car wrecks, domestics, suicides, robberies and biker bar brawls.
I also hope nothing bad happens to Mr. Condell but can’t help but figure him as a target by the usual suspects; he’s really out there and minces no words and they can find him. I shall pray for him accordingly.
@Lynn; The Mooch is who you might think it is; she evidently feels as though her station in life is absolutely due her and that no expense should be spared for the entertainment and luxury of herself and her children. And she loathes and despises the country and its people currently ruled by her husband and the criminal Bolshevik junta pulling his strings.
Oh that Mooch. Gotcha. I keep trying to forget about her and her jet fuel guzzling vacations around the planet.
So you could have been Roland. The late great Warren Zevon, “Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhRRWwH3Fro
After my USMC son got off active duty in 2009, a buddy of his called him up and offered him $90K to crew a fake freighter off the coast of Somalia. He almost did it.
See, that’s why I never understand chemistry. The only reflux I know is acid reflux, but potassium hydroxide is a base. I’ll just have to resign myself to a lifetime of bewilderment.
I suppose I’m seeking a little sympathy here, but would also like some advice on how to kill a friggn’ ferret!
Ammu my ancient ferret (almost 9 years) had a seizure or something last night and was comatose and barely responsive this morning.
I gave the diazepam (4 mg, IIRC) which you prescribed, I gave her the buprenorphine you prescribed (forget the dose) — and after an hour she still wouldn’t die!
A friend had sent me 10 mg of methadone for just such an occasion, so I made a solution of that and gave her an SC injection.
An hour later, she’s STILL alive. Probably still is… BTW, she weighs all of 650 grams, LOL.
Next time you prescribe a euthansia prescription, especially for those stupid hardy ferrets, use succinylcholine and KaCl — in large amounts!
It it not pleasant waiting for her to die so I can bury her. I just want to clean up and move on. I can’t turn my head without seeing litter boxes or poopie pads or cages or food or toys or tubes….
I’m sorry for the loss of your pet.
“So you could have been Roland. The late great Warren Zevon, “Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner”
Yeah, did that gig earlier with bigger guns. The one in Rhodesia would have had me as the only white dude with a crew of Rhodesian scouts on the border. I sometimes wonder what would have become of me if I’d gone for it.
Sorry about your ferret, Jim. That sucks. But ain’t nine years pretty good?
[snip] but potassium hydroxide is a base. I’ll just have to resign myself to a lifetime of bewilderment. [snip]
Physics can be quite befuddling, too. Several years ago, I went to North Carolina to visit a college buddy who was doing post-doc research at TUNL {Triangle Universities Nuclear Lab, on Duke’s campus}. He was explaining, as best he could to a troglodyte like me, his work. One part of this was making negatively charged lithium ions, the first step of which is to strip away some electrons by getting the lithium too close to some fluorine. I shook my head and said ‘Huh? Or does this explain some of my grades?’. He explained that after you strip off some electrons, you expose the Li ions to an electron beam, and some of them take two electrons, since they’re free, and you wind up with the desired negative Li ions.
The really funny part of the visit was the room full of physics PhD types who think *I’m* smart because I could rattle off Hayes dialing codes and did an impromptu tweak of some Fortran code.
I’m pretty smaht, too; I can rattle off sonnet lines from Petrarca and Donne and explain the different methodologies and do impromptu tweaks of how much chili powder to dump into the chili.
Just funnin, y’all….
I liked Pat’s video, apart from his being soft on Islam, but it just went on too long. Should have been cut at about the three minute mark.
He could have cut it by about 20%, I think; and it would be nice to vary the background from the same dull white. Do they have colours in yon Perfidious Isle?
Just Albion.
Sad.
Maybe he can borrow some plaid tartan stuff to hang in back of him from their friends the Highlanders.