LeidenForce quiz of the day: can you solve our Fake or Fact?
In our Fake or Fact series, we test your science knowledge about the Leidenfrost effect!
#Acetone #leidenfrosteffect #volatileliquids #ThermalPhysics #fluiddynamics
LeidenForce quiz of the day: can you solve our Fake or Fact?
In our Fake or Fact series, we test your science knowledge about the Leidenfrost effect!
#Acetone #leidenfrosteffect #volatileliquids #ThermalPhysics #fluiddynamics
😮💨 Diagnosing diabetes may soon be as easy as breathing into a bag
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-08-diabetes-easy-bag.html
#sensors #chemistry #acetone #health #diagnosis #diabetes #disease
In the U.S., one in five of the 37 million adults who has diabetes doesn't know it. Current methods of diagnosing diabetes and prediabetes usually require a visit to a doctor's office or lab work, both of which can be expensive and time-consuming. Now, diagnosing diabetes and prediabetes may be as simple as breathing.
Yay, unhappy with hardware shop prices and sizes, I had eventually found cheaper #acetone sold at a drug store, but in tiny bottles, with glycerine etc in it as well.
On your tips, I found one of the Dollarstore brands without any additional additives and in a good middle-ish size.
And made in Canada too. $3.25.
Wah - I haven't bought #acetone in a loooong time. I had no idea it was so expensive now. Just checking prices. Is it used in meth production or something?
I expected $5-10 maybe but it's looking like $17 for a litre.
The next fit of "Gin-soaked"—
This was a fun one. We are finally back on the @internetarchive! @jay and I talk about Elon Musk, the world's richest Nazi. We also get into Brandolini's Law and how the "bullshit asimmetry" can be deployed symmetrically. Finally we riff about #Acetone and how the C/C++ industrial complex is cosying up to #Trump.
https://archive.org/details/ian-and-jay-space-out-2025-01-26
Elon musk is a Nazi: Jack Dorsey's singular solution does a bunch of seig heil salutes at a Trump inauguration event. Brandolini's law rules everything...