CaptainCorruption wrote:
madchemist wrote:
Skilled Trades Chick wrote:
CaptainCorruption wrote:
Skilled Trades Chick wrote:Of course I'm glad to know that Colorado has said that adults are smart enough to police their recreational needs.
But I'm also looking forward to being able to get T-shirts that are a hemp and cotton blend, and luxurious hemp paper for writing letters & scrapbooking, and hemp rope for use at the farm. I will stand in line to buy hemp "plastic bags" that will decompose in the landscape when they aren't disposed of properly. I'd like a source for oil made from hemp stalks to use for making chemical free body products. I'm sure the marketplace will be filled with products of a more sustainable nature, and the companies providing those products can still make a profit. Win/win!! Unless you own Georgia Pacific, that is.
Uh... chemical free body products? So what, you want to apply a void to your body?
Well, I suppose you have a point. Baking soda and coconut oil are chemical in nature, somehow, some way. But not only can I pronounce those ingredients, I can spell them too! I'm loving my "made in the kitchen with my own two hands" toothpaste and moisturizer.
Actually baking soda would be Sodium Bicarbonate, Coconut oil is actually a complex mixture of Saturated fats, Hexanoic to Dodecanoic (and a number of the isomeric isomers) mainly, and mono-unsaturated acids, Hexenoic acid to dodecanoic and poly-unsaturated acids.
The exact mixture can vary depending on the source and maturity of the coconuts when harvested. You probably can't spell the names of all the fatty acids present--I can't without my chemistry spell check.
And water would be di-hydrogen monoxide 
Anywho - just lovin the marketing newspeak. Whatever happened to nice and simple "All Natural" rather than, well, factually inaccurate "chemical free"? Same thing that turned "used cars" into "Certifiable pre -owned vehicles" and "shell shock" into "post traumatic stress disorder"? Both Orwell and Carlin would be proud.
Actually the name of water would be hydrogen monoxide. The number of cations is usually not specified, but it's oxidation state and number can be deduced from the anion designation.
Statistics: Posted by madchemist — Thu Jan 02, 2014 8:19 pm