When you concoct a marinade for a meal, you often marinate your meat or whatever for a length of time – 30 minutes, a few hours, overnight. Why? Presumably to give the chemicals time to infiltrate the tissue being marinated. When you add salad dressing to your salad and let it sit in the...
End of summer, with the cooler night time temperatures, prompts area residents to close their pools for the year. Where does all that pool water go? In my neighborhood, almost half of the neighbors have pools, most are in-ground pools and a couple are above-ground pools. The pool water is gorgeous- clear, blue, inviting...
We are internal combustion engines. We take in carbon-based fuels and our body metabolism burns the fuel using oxygen that we breathe in, powering our body heat, movement and all our body processes. The waste we produce is mostly carbon dioxide (CO2) and water and a few other waste chemicals that show up in...
featured image courtesy of: https://www.allaboutsmilesde.com/what-is-oral-ph-and-how-does-it-affect-your-health/ If you’ve ever watched Breaking Bad, you remember how a murdered body was disposed of by dissolving it, even the bones, in a bathtub full of hydrofluoric acid (the bathtub itself was corroded/dissolved by the acid). Of course, MythBusters and others pointed out that this fictional, but nonetheless thrilling...
You’ve probably heard that one big concern about the growing amount of carbon dioxide in the air, from humanity’s burning of fossil fuels, is ocean acidification. I noticed that most internet sources describe how oceans get acidified, but they don’t really explain what that means- especially what pH is. pH is not one of...
