StringJunky

No software will filter direct human spammers. There needs to be a ban on posting URLs below a certain posting level.

If you fancy a not too long primer on plant mutation breeding this was quite good. There's a chart near the beginning showing the various methods of inducing mutations. There's list of chemicals used as well in that chart. Corrected that link in the previous post. It should work now. http://www.fnca.mext.go.jp/english/mb/mbm/pdf/04_MutationBreedingManual.pdf

I had a read around and it seems to be a growth promoter and protects against mechanisms that might cause mutagenesis and general cellular damage in plants and seeds. It might be part of the process in preparing seeds for mutagenesis but not as the actual agent that causes it. Have a read of this and you'll see what I mean. http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/14/12/5144/pdf Edit: Added Link

i was adding to what you said, not contradicting.

Yes, it is. I didn't know who to attribute it to until today. You still need some life behind you to appreciate it. It's a difficult question to answer for someone who still has the vast majority of their life ahead. How a person dies shouldn't define their life that went before. It is rarely a fairy-tale ending. Having said that, my grandmother had the perfect death. She drifted into a sleep-like state with slow, steady breathing with increasing intervals, took one final inhale and then relaxed. Her influence is still very much alive in me and in that sense she still lives. To use a computer analogy, I am still executing the program she installed in me. Ultimately, we are information which we pass on by installing it into someone else.

In those sections there's more freedom for hand waving. The other thing is those subjects are about who we are and our allegiances, so, we take things more personally.

I think this quote sums it up, apparently, by Da Vinci: "As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."

Right. I suppose it doesn't really matter practically , all the properties of the exiting particle match the incoming particle. Edit: correction

This what I'm asking. I suppose the answer is that it's not known. Would it be possible to induce a measurable property in the ejected particle that is different to the barrier particles and see if any particles with that of the ejected particle are measured?

I don't know if this is splitting hairs but is it the same particle that hits the surface that comes out the other side or is it an energy transfer through neighbouring particles culminating in the exiting of a different particle of the same type... sort of a domino effect?

No idea, they may do it privately and away from the forum. It is not very common in any subject matter for people to openly concede and adopt the opposing argument. They may usually either sulk and insult or not post any more. It is a learned skill to not argue just to win an argument.by any means, especially stuff that is not empirically and evidentially based, like philosophy, ethics, politics and religion.

It does provide a place for science to rebut religious notions. People should just censor it out of their viewing choices by choosing the options they want to see.

I would use it on both hands just for general nail care as well. I just let the left hand nail grow long but decided to take it down to match the the rest on that hand. Once you file and seal all your nails you may find they are all the same in hardness and rigidity. Just noticed Dr P's post: it might accelerate your goal by using an emollient everyday on the nail surfaces to hold the moisture in but use a buffing block first to polish the surfaces of roughness and ridges and also put a slight round on the top corner edge of the nail ends for a non-scratchy sound. The final objective is to get everything flat and polished to minimise absorption of everyday liquids/contaminants and egress of natural moisture from inside the nails.

Their jars are used in pickling so i would think that top ring will be of similar material used in them. Ring them up and ask, the number's at the bottom. Here's some silicone ones; note the measurement. https://nutleyskitchengardens.co.uk/10-silicone-reusable-sealing-rings-for-clip-top-jars Edit: if you look in that video in your link a lemon drink is dispensed so it must be quite acid-safe on all the materials used in it. Everything, I guess, would be at least pickling material quality... that's what they do.

Here's a chemical resistance chart for various types of rubber materials with acetic acid . you are looking for a rating of 1. http://mykin.com/rubber-chemical-resistance-chart

Would it be possible to create an embedded, bespoke activity button that only has the technical subjects linked to that are the mainstay of the forum or the default activity page? People could still access the religious forums etc in the standard browsing page that's always been there.

Right. The topic distribution of threads changes like the weather and that's just the dynamic of the forum and the people that come here. You can be strict, like Physics Forums, on demanding certain subject matter but do people want SFN like that?

The problem now is that, with the new software, the default is to show activity as individual posts as they happen which may be a stream of comments in religion or politics etc. This gives skewed view and can be tiresome if one is not interested. It's not a good promotion for SFN necomers seeing such a heavy apparent bias towards religion. As I posted earlier in Studot's thread you can create a new stream minus religion and whatever else you don't like, name it, save it, click on the new stream, then make a link to that in your bookmarks bar.

Make an activity stream in the Create New Stream option with all you desired topics ticked, minus religion. Name the stream and save it. select your newly made stream and bookmark the page into your bookmarks bar. No more religious threads. Here's an image of the relevant section with a few choices chosen.

I have a Leighton Denny but I've since found Wolfram Files that was designed with guitarists in mind, which might just have a bit better polishing ability. Don't get a cheap one because they are not acid-etched etched but glass particles glued on to glass which wear off and don't give as fine a finish... been there! Edit to add: I initially wondered if hydrostatic pressure helped keep nails rigid and sealed ends are necessary to maintain it.

I don't get to play my steel string guitar so much now because my nephew has it most of the time but I've been using a glass nail file regularly the last few months and they are nearly like horn now. I need wire cutters to snip the thumbnail; my left fretting hand one got too long so I tried to cut it with scissors but failed. My nails used to be very fragile and split at the ends as well being easily chip. I read a while ago that glass files produce a fine dust which apparently seals them; this seems to be the case. It seems, from Area54's link, that there is a porous, more fibrous middle layer. I was wondering, if the nail was filamentous, then loss of moisture, or whatever, caused a loss of rigidity plus ingress of everyday chemicals being absorbed by capillary action attacking the nail structure. My basic idea being that keeping body moisture in and enviromental substances out has made them as strong as they are. My diet has not changed and I do not apply any nail preparations. Technique is important too in terms of avoiding excessive nail wear and I think some people have them too long, playing wholly on the nail when, as in classical technique, one should tension the skin with flesh but ping the string with nail, using only a modicum of pressure on it.

Yes, it does seem a bit messy not automatically merging.

Cool. Probably the most useful upgrade I've seen so far considering how much we all selectively quote. I've just about got used to the change now.

Just found something easy and useful. To quote extracts of a post: highlight the desired section and and a little "quote this" label shows up. Click that, you then have a a named and time-stamped quote in your input box.