On 3/21/19 9:19 AM, Frank wrote:
As a long retired chemist I am amazed at improvements in analytic

As for kale, I knew nothing about it but noted today it was part of a
store mixed salad I had for lunch.Â* By itself it would not be a good
salad but the mix was very tasty.Â* I read that kale is loaded with
vitamins but when I was on Coumadin I would have avoided it for high
vitaminÂ*KÂ*content.

To me, Kale tastes like penicillin flavored oak leaves. YUK!

It is indeed loaded with vitamins and stuff, but leaf lettuce
is 1/2 as much and I eat 4 times as much, so ...

Off Topic: Retired Chemist. I have to sit in other
peoples chairs to work on their computers. As a result,
my cloths get coated in perfume, with give my wife scary
asthma.

We use to be able to get perfume out by soaking it
in vinegar. But, now Tide and Dawn have come up with
perfumes that deliberately are meant to NOT wash out
and to persist for over a month. Here are some of them:

https://patents.google.com/patent/EP3218066A1/en
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5840668A/en
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5670466

Whilst we all wait for the massive class action suit to
stop this practice, do you know how to remove these
toxins? Vinegar, baking soda, washing soda, sodium
percarbonate (h2o2, Oxi), borate do not work. Enviro
Cleanse sort of kind of works, but not really.