If Angel or someone else with a brain for chemistry around, riddle me this: Spoiler [email from sister]I was trying to get some blood out of sheets ([Daughter]’s friend spent the night and had a nose bleed) by applying hydrogen peroxide. As I worked, I noticed my finger was burning but it was under the sheet and I wasn’t paying much attention to it. Finally the burning got worse so I looked at it, and under and around where my platinum wedding rings are, it was itching, burning, and had tiny white specks or crystals on my finger. Afterwards, I researched chemical reaction between hydrogen peroxide + platinum and discovered that the platinum acts as a catalyst for the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide into oxygen and water. I even watched a video of an experiment where a platinum coin in a jar of hydrogen peroxide bubbles as it releases the oxygen. Fine. But what the heck were the little crystals? They were pretty hard to get off my finger (didn’t just rinse away, I had to scrub them off). Just curious. I have taken off my rings and washed them and my finger, which feels fine now, and there is little to no evidence of a chemical burn (although it sure felt like there was going to be one!) My hunch is that maybe small bit of iron in the blood was responsible for the reaction leading to crystals? But it seems like you'd need more blood for visible crystals.
Oh pipe down CJ, our yard is about the size of a postage stamp, the garage is detached and behind the house, and the houses are really close. A gate across the driveway was a way for our dogs to have what would resemble a yard. We're not talking an estate here. It's electronic because we are lazy.
Whatever, Muffy. Are we still going to play Polo? DeeDee just bought this fabulous summer cottage in Nantucket she is dying to show off.
It's a pretty day and only 75 degrees. I'm sitting on the couch like a slug since I'm a lameass and can't handle a night out after midnight anymore. I suck.
I went on a cruise for Spring Break one year and it was amazing. I liked days at sea more than location days. Food and everything self contained? Awesome. Then I went on one the year after I graduated college. Filled with fat French Canadiens and rednecks from Mississippi (funny how travel agents group together and sell off 50% of the available space on the cruise to certain groups). I also wasn't hyper cautious about bar tabs like I was in college, so that was more painful. I haven't been on one since. My friend's family is well off and SUPER bourgeois. Very much a nose in the air kind of crew. Yet they've been one FIFTEEN, yes 15, crusies as a family. So bizarre.
Actual hard crystals or specks of peroxide on her finger? i.e. Had she formed a precipitate or had she just effectively spot-'bleached' the skin around her rings?
I will never go on a cruise. I will never want to be out in the middle of the ocean on top of a floating crap bucket. Remember the cruise that lost power in the gulf? I heard that was a nightmare, no power means no flushing toilets which means.... Fuck that.
it's good to be back in the US, but walking around tonight, I totally understand why people from other countries come here and think we're all inbred hicks.
I will be randomly making comments about the wedding reception I am at. Few things: --This reception costs more than my house --Yet, not a fully open bar. What the fuck? --Holy shit; I just saw the main bad guy from The Crow! Where is his sword?
Few more observations: --Really hot chick at our table, hoping my wife gets drunk enough to have a lesbian experience. --The food here is beyond insane. I had chicken or pasta at my wedding. They have about 20 choices, from prime rib to lobster stuffed pork loins, several kinds of pasta... So much. --My only night away from my kid and I'm sitting at a table with a child my daughter's age. Ugh. Edit to add: --About four dudes just used the bathroom without flushing or washing their hands. Am I weird for flushing and washing my hands, or are they as gross as I think?
I know this entire thread is NSFW, but really don't like having that "scene" pop up at the very top of the page. I was in line to check out so pulled it up on my phone and BAM. Guess the person behind me in line probably got an eyeful too.