Baby, your eyes
are like Lugol's iodine in a thyroid storm,
like Quinine for the chloroquine resistant form,
and I know I don't have to think twice,
Baby you are my Drug of Choice.
Baby, your smile
is like i.m. Adrenaline in anaphylaxis,
like sublingual Nifedipine in hypertensive crisis,
repeat as single dose won't suffice,
Baby you are my Drug of Choice.
Baby, your face is so pretty,
it causes cardiac toxicity.
Recommended only with medical advice.
Baby you are my Drug of Choice.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Gulabi Aakhen
When I heard Atif Aslam's version of the song Gulabi aakhen,
I searched a lot to find the meaning of gulabi aakhen
but none of the meanings were satisfying.
According to ophthalmologists
Gulabi Aakhen = Pink eye = Conjunctivitis which may be viral/bacterial/due to chemical irritants like smoke etc..
Some say she was wearing pink contact lenses.
But it doesn't sound right.
Tell me why would someone start drinking just because a girl is having viral conjunctivitis or wearing pink lenses.
I had to find a logical explanation and I have come up with this:
Consider a Young Adult Human Female(YAHF)with Haemoglobin >10 gm% and who has avoided exposure to bright sunlight and noxious chemical irritants for a long duration of time.
The eyes(the sclera and bulbar conjunctiva)is usually pristine white and in the absence of any visual defects there are very few vascular markings seen on the conjunctiva.
When such a YAHF is subjected to a painful stimulus either physical or emotional, as a part of a defence mechanism the autonomic nervous system is activated which has two effects:
1.Vasodilation of the conjunctival blood vessels.
2.Hyperventilation causing washout of carbondioxide from the blood increasing the pH of blood(respiratory alkalosis) which causes further vasodilation.
As a result the eyes which were pristine white before turn a shade of pink.
This occurs for a brief interval of time before they turn red and tears start to flow,followed by rhinorrhea(watery discharge from nose)and snorty breathing.
The Poet who is in love with such a YAHF sees her in this state of pain and due to his emotional attachment feels the pain himself.
Now due to the fact he does not fully understand the nature and cause of the pain added to that the fact he is in pain himself. He cannot find a cure for her pain and hence his pain.
So he starts consuming ethyl alcohol in high doses which act as an anaesthetic as well as a sedative thus numbing his pain.
The side effects include ataxia and loss of muscular co-ordination (sambhalna mushkil ho gaya).
I searched a lot to find the meaning of gulabi aakhen
but none of the meanings were satisfying.
According to ophthalmologists
Gulabi Aakhen = Pink eye = Conjunctivitis which may be viral/bacterial/due to chemical irritants like smoke etc..
Some say she was wearing pink contact lenses.
But it doesn't sound right.
Tell me why would someone start drinking just because a girl is having viral conjunctivitis or wearing pink lenses.
I had to find a logical explanation and I have come up with this:
Consider a Young Adult Human Female(YAHF)with Haemoglobin >10 gm% and who has avoided exposure to bright sunlight and noxious chemical irritants for a long duration of time.
The eyes(the sclera and bulbar conjunctiva)is usually pristine white and in the absence of any visual defects there are very few vascular markings seen on the conjunctiva.
When such a YAHF is subjected to a painful stimulus either physical or emotional, as a part of a defence mechanism the autonomic nervous system is activated which has two effects:
1.Vasodilation of the conjunctival blood vessels.
2.Hyperventilation causing washout of carbondioxide from the blood increasing the pH of blood(respiratory alkalosis) which causes further vasodilation.
As a result the eyes which were pristine white before turn a shade of pink.
This occurs for a brief interval of time before they turn red and tears start to flow,followed by rhinorrhea(watery discharge from nose)and snorty breathing.
The Poet who is in love with such a YAHF sees her in this state of pain and due to his emotional attachment feels the pain himself.
Now due to the fact he does not fully understand the nature and cause of the pain added to that the fact he is in pain himself. He cannot find a cure for her pain and hence his pain.
So he starts consuming ethyl alcohol in high doses which act as an anaesthetic as well as a sedative thus numbing his pain.
The side effects include ataxia and loss of muscular co-ordination (sambhalna mushkil ho gaya).
Thursday, October 28, 2010
ONE
I had a dream that one day,
The world would be without shades of gray.
Everything would be wrong or right,
Yes or No,no "maybe" for false delight.
Then i thought if it could really be,
We could run the world on binary!
Think of all the data we could analyze,
Turn it into knowledge and be truly Wise.
We could predict each bubble before it bursts,
Stop each pain before it hurts.
To know the answers,
We need the questions first.
But I say we already know the answer
and it is not zero,
It is ONE!!!
The world would be without shades of gray.
Everything would be wrong or right,
Yes or No,no "maybe" for false delight.
Then i thought if it could really be,
We could run the world on binary!
Think of all the data we could analyze,
Turn it into knowledge and be truly Wise.
We could predict each bubble before it bursts,
Stop each pain before it hurts.
To know the answers,
We need the questions first.
But I say we already know the answer
and it is not zero,
It is ONE!!!
Friday, June 19, 2009
Boom!!!
Nitroglycerin Recipe
Like all chemists I must advise you all to take the greatest care
and caution when you are doing this. Even if you have made this stuff
before.
This first article will give you information on making
nitroglyerin, the basic ingredient in a lot of explosives such as
straight dynamites, and geletin dynamites.
Making nitroglycerin
1. Fill a 75-milliliter beaker to the 13 ml. Level with fuming
red nitric acid, of 98% pure concentration.
2. Place the beaker in an ice bath and allow to cool below room
temp.
3. After it has cooled, add to it three times the amount of
fuming sulferic acid (99% h2so4). In other words, add to the
now-cool fuming nitric acid 39 ml. Of fuming sulferic acid.
When mixing any acids, always do it slowly and carefully to
avoid splattering.
4. When the two are mixed, lower thier temp. By adding more ice
to the bath, about 10-15 degrees centigrade. (Use a
mercury-operated thermometer)
5. When the acid solution has cooled to the desired temperature,
it is ready for the glycerin. The glycerin must be added in
small amounts using a medicine dropper. (Read this step about
10 times!) Glycerin is added slowly and carefully (i mean
careful!) Until the entire surface of the acid it covered with
it.
6. This is a dangerous point since the nitration will take place
as soon as the glycerin is added. The nitration will produce
heat, so the solution must be kept below 30 degrees
centigrade! If the solution should go above 30 degrees,
immediately dump the solution into the ice bath! This will
insure that it does not go off in your face!
7. For the first ten minutes of nitration, the mixture should be
gently stirred. In a normal reaction the nitroglycerin will
form as a layer on top of the acid solution, while the sulferic
acid will absorb the excess water.
8. After the nitration has taken place, and the nitroglycerin has
formed on the top of the solution, the entire beaker should be
transferred slowly and carefully to another beaker of water.
When this is done the nitroglycerin will settle at the bottem
so the other acids can be drained away.
9. After removing as much acid as posible without disturbing the
nitroglycerin, remove the nitroglycerin with an eyedropper and
place it in a bicarbonate of soda (sodium bicarbonate in case
you didn't know) solution. The sodium is an alkalai and will
nuetralize much of the acid remaining. This process should be
repeated as much as necesarry using blue litmus paper to check
for the presence of acid. The remaining acid only makes the
nitroglycerin more unstable than it already is.
10. Finally! The final step is to remove the nitroglycerin from
the bicarbonate. His is done with and eye- dropper, slowly
and carefully. The usual test to see if nitration has been
successful is to place one drop of the nitroglycerin on metal
and ignite it. If it is true nitroglycerin it will burn with
a clear blue flame.
** Caution **
Nitro is very sensative to decomposition, heating dropping, or
jarring, and may explode if left undisturbed and cool.
P.S: Courtesy of the Jolly Roger
Like all chemists I must advise you all to take the greatest care
and caution when you are doing this. Even if you have made this stuff
before.
This first article will give you information on making
nitroglyerin, the basic ingredient in a lot of explosives such as
straight dynamites, and geletin dynamites.
Making nitroglycerin
1. Fill a 75-milliliter beaker to the 13 ml. Level with fuming
red nitric acid, of 98% pure concentration.
2. Place the beaker in an ice bath and allow to cool below room
temp.
3. After it has cooled, add to it three times the amount of
fuming sulferic acid (99% h2so4). In other words, add to the
now-cool fuming nitric acid 39 ml. Of fuming sulferic acid.
When mixing any acids, always do it slowly and carefully to
avoid splattering.
4. When the two are mixed, lower thier temp. By adding more ice
to the bath, about 10-15 degrees centigrade. (Use a
mercury-operated thermometer)
5. When the acid solution has cooled to the desired temperature,
it is ready for the glycerin. The glycerin must be added in
small amounts using a medicine dropper. (Read this step about
10 times!) Glycerin is added slowly and carefully (i mean
careful!) Until the entire surface of the acid it covered with
it.
6. This is a dangerous point since the nitration will take place
as soon as the glycerin is added. The nitration will produce
heat, so the solution must be kept below 30 degrees
centigrade! If the solution should go above 30 degrees,
immediately dump the solution into the ice bath! This will
insure that it does not go off in your face!
7. For the first ten minutes of nitration, the mixture should be
gently stirred. In a normal reaction the nitroglycerin will
form as a layer on top of the acid solution, while the sulferic
acid will absorb the excess water.
8. After the nitration has taken place, and the nitroglycerin has
formed on the top of the solution, the entire beaker should be
transferred slowly and carefully to another beaker of water.
When this is done the nitroglycerin will settle at the bottem
so the other acids can be drained away.
9. After removing as much acid as posible without disturbing the
nitroglycerin, remove the nitroglycerin with an eyedropper and
place it in a bicarbonate of soda (sodium bicarbonate in case
you didn't know) solution. The sodium is an alkalai and will
nuetralize much of the acid remaining. This process should be
repeated as much as necesarry using blue litmus paper to check
for the presence of acid. The remaining acid only makes the
nitroglycerin more unstable than it already is.
10. Finally! The final step is to remove the nitroglycerin from
the bicarbonate. His is done with and eye- dropper, slowly
and carefully. The usual test to see if nitration has been
successful is to place one drop of the nitroglycerin on metal
and ignite it. If it is true nitroglycerin it will burn with
a clear blue flame.
** Caution **
Nitro is very sensative to decomposition, heating dropping, or
jarring, and may explode if left undisturbed and cool.
P.S: Courtesy of the Jolly Roger
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