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Re: New Programmer's Drink?

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D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 10:29:35 +0000, "Kerr-Mudd, John"
> <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>
>> On 19 Nov 2021 22:38:39 -0400
>> Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
>>
>>> I use phosphoric acid to clean my hand-forged ironwork.
>>> Dentistry be damned, eh?  
>> 
>> Best not to keep it in your mouth for a fortnight. But how do you feel
>> about fl[u]oride? (Oops, could be a heated discussion coming up!)
> 
> There were people freaking out over flourides in the drinking water
> once place I lived... then it was pointed out they were naturally
> there, and part of the water from the artesian wells that were used
> for water in town.

With a degree in chemistry (albeit 50 years old) the notion of
ingesting fluoride offends me but I'm willing to depend on the
established science and the failure of widespread fluoridation to
engender mass health calamities once millions of people were exposed
to it.  I'm less trusting of the unbending assertion that amalgam
fillings pose no health risk whetever.

Much less happy with the presence of arsenic in drilled wells in this
area.  Old hand-dug surface wells mostly don't have the problem while
drilled wells pierce and draw water from the gold/arsenic-bearing strata.

It's all in paying attention to detail.  Back in my chemistry days, I
read about a case of cattle somewhere in the US west that were dying.
A study revealed that the soil was cobalt-free and they were dying of
cobalt deficiency.  So ranchers salted the range with cobalt.  The
cattle continued to die.  A second study revealed that they were dying
of cobalt poisoning.  Seems that what was needed was something like (I
forget the acutual numbers) 10 gm of soluble cobalt evenly distributed
over each square mile of range while the ranchers were spreading it
like they did fertilizer or weed killer.

Attention to details.

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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Re: New Programmer's Drink? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-11-19 11:00 -0800
  Re: New Programmer's Drink? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2021-11-19 22:38 -0400
    Re: New Programmer's Drink? Fred Smith <fred@thejanitor.corp> - 2021-11-20 04:49 +0000
      Re: New Programmer's Drink? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-11-20 19:08 +0000
        Re: New Programmer's Drink? Radey Shouman <shouman@comcast.net> - 2021-11-22 10:13 -0500
          Re: New Programmer's Drink? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-11-22 16:13 +0000
          Re: New Programmer's Drink? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2021-11-23 19:35 +0000
    Re: New Programmer's Drink? "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2021-11-20 10:29 +0000
      Re: New Programmer's Drink? D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2021-11-20 12:10 -0600
        Re: New Programmer's Drink? "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2021-11-20 20:28 +0000
        Re: New Programmer's Drink? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-11-20 17:36 -0500
        Re: New Programmer's Drink? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2021-11-21 02:01 -0400
          Re: New Programmer's Drink? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-11-21 11:26 -0500
          Re: New Programmer's Drink? D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2021-11-21 12:38 -0600
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          Re: New Programmer's Drink? Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2021-11-21 19:58 -0500
            Re: New Programmer's Drink? Maus <Greymaus@mail.com> - 2021-11-23 08:58 +0000
          Re: New Programmer's Drink? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-11-22 17:05 +0000
            Re: New Programmer's Drink? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-11-22 18:15 +0000
            Re: New Programmer's Drink? Maus <Greymaus@mail.com> - 2021-11-23 09:05 +0000
      Re: New Programmer's Drink? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-11-25 19:37 -0800
    Re: New Programmer's Drink? D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2021-11-20 12:07 -0600
    Re: New Programmer's Drink? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-11-21 15:30 +0000
      Re: New Programmer's Drink? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-11-21 16:27 +0000
      Re: New Programmer's Drink? Maus <Greymaus@mail.com> - 2021-11-23 08:56 +0000
        Re: New Programmer's Drink? Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2021-11-23 12:14 +0000
        Re: New Programmer's Drink? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-11-23 14:27 +0000
        Re: New Programmer's Drink? D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2021-11-23 08:32 -0600
    Re: New Programmer's Drink? Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2021-11-25 19:41 -0800
      Re: New Programmer's Drink? J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-11-26 00:48 -0500
        Re: New Programmer's Drink? lawrenabae@abaluon.abaom (Lawrence Statton (NK1G)) - 2021-11-26 10:23 -0600
          Re: New Programmer's Drink? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2021-11-26 19:47 -0400
            Re: New Programmer's Drink? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-11-27 18:25 +0000
              Re: New Programmer's Drink? Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2021-11-27 20:53 -0400
            Re: New Programmer's Drink? Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2021-11-27 23:23 -0500
              Re: New Programmer's Drink? Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2021-11-28 19:32 -0500
                Re: New Programmer's Drink? Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-11-29 03:23 +0000
                Re: New Programmer's Drink? "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2021-11-29 09:40 +0000
                Re: New Programmer's Drink? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-11-29 14:38 +0000

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