I wanna do that cool chemical reaction with my kids when we get back from break.

Anyone know of an easy way to get that stuff?

It's relatively hard to get potassium chloride and magnesium sulphate where I live. I am about to order some online, but it might take 3-5 days for delivery.

However I want to get started on my fast immediately, so I've made some "semi-Snake Juice" to keep me going until I can source the missing ingredients. This includes water, iodised salt (sodium chloride, potassium iodate), and bi carb soda (sodium bicarbonate).

How long can I safely fast without the missing ingredients?

EDIT: Cole confirms that "you can [...] go a while without 'em".

ORS 475.975 makes possesion of Iodine without meeting certain criteria in terms of licensing and use a crime. This means any hobby chemist who uses Iodine or someone using it to clean water for drinking is a criminal.

A small percentage of people using it for manufacture of controlled substances does not justify it's criminalization. Spending up to a year in jail just because the government doesn't believe that your particular reason for possessing Iodine is legitimate is wrong and unjustified.

It's time for Oregon to repeal it's unnecessarily cruel and oppressive Iodine laws. Future generations need their elemental Iodine and Iodine matrices.

Legalize Iodine!!!

Edit: this has nothing to do with covid-19. This post was created so people can use Iodine freely in chemistry. Although Iodine has similar properties to other halides, it cant be replaced.

Edit 2: Despite my accounts involvement with other subreddits, that have discussions that could perhaps make people suspicious about my true intentions for wanting Iodine deregulation, I want to make something clear. I want to use Iodine to make solar cells. The Iodine will be used to make Iodate which is necessary to run a redox reaction within the cell to produce electricity.

Basically what the title says! Keeping them as pets as well as feeders down the line (for tarantulas). Was wondering if Purina Cat Chow Naturals Original Dry Cat Food would be a good source of protein for them (along with oats). Will have fresh fruit/veggies too.

The ingredients are: Ingredients Chicken, Corn Gluten Meal, Chicken By-product Meal, Rice, Soybean Meal, Ground Yellow Corn, Ground Whole Wheat, Beef Tallow Preserved With Mixed-tocopherols, Salmon, Natural Liver Flavor, Calcium Carbonate, Phosphoric Acid, Salt, Natural Flavor, Dried Spinach, Choline Chloride, Taurine, Vitamins [Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin (Vitamin B-3), Vitamin A Supplement, Calcium Pantothenate (Vitamin B-5), Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B-1), Riboflavin Supplement (Vitamin B-2), Vitamin B-12 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6), Folic Acid (Vitamin B-9), Vitamin D-3 Supplement, Biotin (Vitamin B-7), Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (Vitamin K)], Minerals [Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite], Potassium Chloride. H452120.

Hi all, first post so hopefully this is ok 😄

I recently got some shrimps for the very first time and have 3 ghost shrimps in an 8 gallon tank. I've been feeding them some pieces of algae pellets which they seem to enjoy, but I also have some betta food that I was wondering would be safe to feed them? Here's the ingredient list:

Ingredients: Black soldier fly larvae, salmon, fish protein concentrate, wheat, potato, shrimp meal, dicalcium phosphate, calcium carbonate, DL-methionine, lecithin, choline chloride, L-lysine, vitamin E supplement, biotin, niacin, calcium L-ascorbyl-2-monophosphate, calendula, zinc oxide, manganous oxide, d-calcium pantothenate, vitamin B12 supplement, beta-carotene, rosemary extract, riboflavin, copper sulfate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, thiamine mononitrate, inositol, folic acid, vitamin A supplement, calcium iodate, sodium selenite, vitamin D3 supplement.

Just wanna make sure I don't feed then anything that could hurt them. Thanks in advance for your help!

I made a similar post earlier but I don't think I was specific enough.

In the lab, I liberated iodine by adding 0.12g of potassium iodate, dissolved in water, to 2g of potassium iodide and sulfuric acid. This was titrated against sodium thiosulfate.

I'm a bit lost on how to calculate the concentration of thiosulfate from this.

The two equations that I've derived so far, are:

2S2O3^2- + I2 ---> S4O6^2- + 2I^- and

IO3^- + 5I^- + 6H^+ ---> 3I2 + 3H2O

If I understand correctly, I need to work out the moles of 3I2 and this is equal to the moles of I2, then I work out the concentration from there. But which steps do I take to perform this calculation?

I'm thinking that I work out the moles of potassium iodate by doing mass/Mr, then proceeding from there, but really I have no idea.

There's really only one commercially available rat food in Japan but I worry the protein content is a little high (not for when they are babies but after that). and I wanted to get some feedback on it and if needed how I can adjust to make up for what it lacks etc. I have two 6 week boys at the moment so I'm also trying to figure out how to best make up for what it lacks in terms of baby nutrition since there's only the one kind and not stages.

This is what the bag says:
Protein -18%
fat-4 %
fiber-3%
ash-4%
moisture - 10%
calcium - 1%
phospohorous 0.7%
380kcal per 100g

Ingredients are Barley, rye, brown rice, wheat, roasted bran, beer yeast, bread crumbs, desalted knots (decapterus and tuna knots), low molecular weight proteins (fermented soybeans), insect flour, defatted milk powder, rapeseed oil, asco film (seaweed), calcium.

The only other food I've found is lab mixes which say they are mouse/rat/hamster and have much higher protein. The "low protein" blend has 18% but doesn't give the other numbers, however, the ingredients are corn, wheat (bran), defatted soybeans, defatted rice bran, alfalfa, fish flour, defatted milk powder, soybean oil, beer yeast. (It's something called CR-LPF which I guess is Charles River - Low Protein Formula if anyone happens to work in a lab and has any idea XD)

I read one article someone in Japan wrote about mixing dog and rabbit food to try and get better nutrition, but with two kinds of food I would worry about them eating only one, of course. I give the boys quinoa, mealworms or a little cat food on occasion but I'm not 100% sure what I can add to their diet for the extra vitamins and minerals they need as babies. Searching suggested selenium, copper and vitamin D in particular were likely lacking from adult foods. I was wondering if maybe mostly a rabbit food with a separate protein source like cat food or mealworms might be better??? I'm not sure if they can overdose on fiber since that's the biggest difference between the rat and rabbits foods (besides the protein).

Some rabbit foods I checked:
A: Protein - 13% Fat-2% Fiber- 22% Ash-11% Moisture-10% Calcium-0.6% Phosphorous-0.4% (Timothy meal, wheat flour, alfalfa meal, wheat bran, defatted soybeans, hominy feed, fermented plant extract, corn gluten feed, sterilized lactic acid bacteria, minerals (salt, zinc sulfate, copper sulfate, cobalt sulfate, calcium iodate), amino acids (DL-methionine), vitamins (choline, niacin, B 6 , E, pantothe

my neighbour's rabbit just died (RIP) and she suggested I try composting its leftover food.

Is anyone able to tell, from this ingredient list, whether it'd be considered greens or browns? Thank you!

>Sun-cured Timothy Grass Hay, Soybean Hulls, Dehulled Soybean Meal, Wheat Middlings, Dried Cane Molasses, Sodium Bentonite, Ground Flax Seed, Salt, DL-Methionine, Soybean Oil, Dicalcium Phosphate, Vitamin A Supplement, Choline Chloride, Yeast Extract, Mixed Tocopherols (Preservative), Vitamin E Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Ferrous Sulfate, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (Source of Vitamin K Activity), Niacin, Manganous Oxide, Zinc Oxide, Copper Sulfate, Rosemary Extract, Citric Acid, Calcium Pantothenate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Thiamine Mononitrate, Folic Acid, Cholecalciferol (Source of Vitamin D3), Manganese Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Calcium Iodate, Biotin, Cobalt Carbonate, Sodium Selenite, Dried Aspergillus oryzae Fermentation Extract Dried Bacillus licheniformis Fermentation Product, Dried Bacillus subtilis Fermentation Product.

PS - I'm also open to anyone telling me this is a terrible idea for some reason, as I don't even know what most of these ingredients are.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

Hi everyone, I've been doing a lot of research on hamsters since I've wanted one for a few years now, plus I work at a pet store and so I try to have at least an intermediate amount of knowledge on every animal we sell (I'm mainly the fish person at work).

Our store carries pretty awful hamster food in terms of lab blocks. Our muesli selection is okay, if supplemented with a good lab block. I usually try to encourage people to just buy better stuff online. I typically recommend Kaytee Forti-diet lab blocks, Mazuri, or Teklad.

I really want to find something in our store that we carry that is usable. I found something that might be okay, but I want to ask your opinion before recommending it because it's technically a mouse/rat food. But, Mazuri's hamster food is technically mouse/rat food too, and this one seems pretty comparable to Mazuri in terms of the ingredients used.

The food I'm thinking about recommending is the All Living Things Power of 5 Mouse/Rat food. The hamster food of this brand is garbage. It's a dupe of Oxbow's hamster food.

GA of the mouse/rat food:

Crude Protein (min) 21.0%
Crude Fat (min) 5.0%
Crude Fiber (max) 7.0%
Moisture (max) 12.0%
Zinc (min) 125 mg/kg
Selenium (min) 0.3 mg/kg
Vitamin E (min) 100 IU/kg

Ingredients:

Soybean Meal, Wheat Middlings, Corn Distiller's Dried Grains With Solubles, Corn, Vegetable Oil, Feeding Oatmeal, Wheat, Milo, Barley, Lignin Sulfonate, Cane Molasses, Calcium Hydroxide, Dried Whey, Yeast Culture, Brewers'S Dried Yeast, Yeast Culture, Calcium Carbonate, Salt, Monocalcium Phosphate, Dicalcium Phosphate, Propionic Acid, DL-Methionine, Choline Chloride, L-Lysine, Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Ferrous Carbonate, Yucca Schidigera Extract, DL-Alpha Tocopherol Acetate, D-Alpha Tocopherol Acetate, Manganous Oxide, Manganese Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Niacin Supplement, Copper Sulfate, Biotin, Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Vitamin A Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, Sodium Selenite, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Menadione Dimethylpyrimidinol Bisulfite, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Folic Acid, Cobalt Carbonate, Calcium Iodate

I don't know enough about hamster/mouse/rat nutrition to know if the vitamins/minerals they need are too different to share foods. I just know this one has a very similar ingredient list to the Mazuri food, and the protein/fat/fiber is actually decent for a lab block.

Please let me know your opinions!

Do your worst!

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

And boy are my arms legs.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

A play on words.

My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.

(Epistemic status: Written by a layman after only a few hours of broad research on a subject that's often conspiracy-bait.)

What's water fluoridation, anyway?

First, a brief primer. You may want to just check out the wikipedia article, which is much more thorough. In any case:

Water fluoridation is the practice of adding fluoride to the public water supply, in order to reduce tooth decay. As public health interventions go, it's cheap and effective- costing on the order of $1 per person and reducing cavity incidence by roughly 30%. Much of the world adds some level of fluoride in their water (and if not, it can also be present naturally or delivered through salt or milk).

Ingested, the fluoride becomes part of the body's water supply. When it makes its way into your saliva, it will start coating the parts of your teeth that bacteria eat away at, preventing them from making further progress.

Is it necessary?

On the pro side, fluoride is again a very cheap and effective way to reduce cavities even among the poorest in society, usually children.

On the con side, adding fluoride to toothpaste is just as if not more effective. (Incidentally, this is part of the reason you're not supposed to swallow toothpaste- the fluoride can cause gastrointestinal trouble.) There doesn't seem to be any significant difference in cavities between countries which fluoridate water and those that don't. To quote Wikipedia,

> Most countries in Europe have experienced substantial declines in cavities without the use of water fluoridation.[1] For example, in Finland and Germany, tooth decay rates remained stable or continued to decline after water fluoridation stopped. Fluoridation may be useful in the U.S. because unlike most European countries, the U.S. does not have school-based dental care, many children do not visit a dentist regularly, and for many U.S. children water fluoridation is the prime source of exposure to fluoride.[59] The effectiveness of water fluoridation can vary according to circumstances such as whether preventive dental care is free to all children.[60]

Is it safe?

The short answer is that we don't know that it's not, and it's not likely to be extremely unsafe or we surely would have noticed by now. (Fluoridation has been widely practiced since the 1960s.)

The long answer is that there are sev

Hello all, so I know what your feeding your dogs is a bog topic for everyone. It’s so confusing trying to decipher labels and really to understand what it all means. I keep getting lost in others reviews/opinions on dog food and get overwhelmed.

What I really would like help with is to understand my pups food. He will be switching to adult food in two months and I want to be ready to switch him to the best food.

iVet Large Breed Puppy is what he has been on since I got him. He seems to love it and the vet hasn’t said anything about his diet.

“Chicken Meal, Brewers Rice, Oatmeal, Canola Meal, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols, source of Vitamin E), Dried Beet Pulp (sugar removed), Flaxseed (source of natural omega-3 fatty acids), Fish Meal (source of natural DHA), Dried Egg Product, Dried Brewers Yeast, Natural Flavor, Lecithin, Yucca Schidigera, DL-methionine, Minerals (Potassium Chloride, Salt, Zinc Sulfate, Zinc Amino Acid Chelate, Copper Sulfate, Copper Amino Acid Chelate, Ferrous Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Manganese Amino Acid Chelate, Calcium Iodate, Cobalt Carbonate, Sodium Selenite), Beta-Carotene, Vitamins (Choline Chloride, Vitamin E Supplement, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (a source of Vitamin C), Niacin, Vitamin A Supplement, Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin, Thiamine Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement), Rosemary Extract.”

Any veterinarians here care to help understand?

Also I’ll be asking my vet too but it’s been super hard to really go over stuff with Covid protocols because we don’t go in with him.

Thank you all!

Basically what the title says! Keeping them as pets as well as feeders down the line (for tarantulas). Was wondering if Purina Cat Chow Naturals Original Dry Cat Food would be a good source of protein for them (along with oats). Will have fresh fruit/veggies too.

The ingredients are: Ingredients Chicken, Corn Gluten Meal, Chicken By-product Meal, Rice, Soybean Meal, Ground Yellow Corn, Ground Whole Wheat, Beef Tallow Preserved With Mixed-tocopherols, Salmon, Natural Liver Flavor, Calcium Carbonate, Phosphoric Acid, Salt, Natural Flavor, Dried Spinach, Choline Chloride, Taurine, Vitamins [Vitamin E Supplement, Niacin (Vitamin B-3), Vitamin A Supplement, Calcium Pantothenate (Vitamin B-5), Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B-1), Riboflavin Supplement (Vitamin B-2), Vitamin B-12 Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B-6), Folic Acid (Vitamin B-9), Vitamin D-3 Supplement, Biotin (Vitamin B-7), Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (Vitamin K)], Minerals [Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Calcium Iodate, Sodium Selenite], Potassium Chloride. H452120.