Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 3]
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nonsequitur said:
Rich_W said:
Speed 3 said:
gazzarose said:
Back in the bygone days of no Internet, 3 TV channels and proper summers, milk men had crappy slow electric milk floats. But now we've got 4g, 2 million TV channels and reasonably mature EV technology, what has changed that milk men prefer small panel vans with the side door left open? Why did they have electric milk floats in the first place? Was it for the quietness? You don't even seem to see the milk float type transits anymore. Surely he could get his rounds done quicker using the mechanicals from a Tesla.
Is there still such a thing as milk delivery ?????This on a daily basis.
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nonsequitur said:
Dr Jekyll said:
RATATTAK said:
Why is "vinyl" pronounced "V eye nill"
surely it should be " Vin" (as in Vehicle Identification Number) "ill"
I was once vaguely in the industry (juke boxes) and everyone seemed to pronounce it 'Veeneyl'.surely it should be " Vin" (as in Vehicle Identification Number) "ill"
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I imagine it's really well mixed. Put 1 part good stuff into 10 parts filler, mix for an hour in an industrial blender and make a pill, hey presto.The actual process is probably more in depth than that, but I guess that's the gist.
RATATTAK said:
Why is "vinyl" pronounced "V eye nill"
surely it should be " Vin" (as in Vehicle Identification Number) "ill"
Wikipedia copy/paste:surely it should be " Vin" (as in Vehicle Identification Number) "ill"
The etymology of vinyl is the Latin vinum = "wine", because of its relationship with alcohol (in its original sense of ethyl alcohol). The term "vinyl" was coined by the German chemist Hermann Kolbe in 1851
So maybe that's how a German speaker would pronounce it.
Nimby said:
Wikipedia copy/paste:
The etymology of vinyl is the Latin vinum = "wine", because of its relationship with alcohol (in its original sense of ethyl alcohol). The term "vinyl" was coined by the German chemist Hermann Kolbe in 1851
So maybe that's how a German speaker would pronounce it.
It sounds nothing like that in German, so I don't think soThe etymology of vinyl is the Latin vinum = "wine", because of its relationship with alcohol (in its original sense of ethyl alcohol). The term "vinyl" was coined by the German chemist Hermann Kolbe in 1851
So maybe that's how a German speaker would pronounce it.
Hugo a Gogo said:
Surely there's not much filler if any? You can get tiny little pills and big huge ones, why bother making them big and hard to swallow if they don't have to?
I would expect that the carrier that the active ingredient is placed in is dependent on the active ingredient and how they want it to be released. If your business is mixing very small quantities of chemicals into pills or what ever medicine, you will have the machinery to deal with very small, precise amounts.
gazzarose said:
Back in the bygone days of no Internet, 3 TV channels and proper summers, milk men had crappy slow electric milk floats. But now we've got 4g, 2 million TV channels and reasonably mature EV technology, what has changed that milk men prefer small panel vans with the side door left open? Why did they have electric milk floats in the first place? Was it for the quietness? You don't even seem to see the milk float type transits anymore. Surely he could get his rounds done quicker using the mechanicals from a Tesla.
I would say with so few people still using milk delivery the coverage of one milkman is now too far for the range of a milk float. Also would any still be on the road, they can't have been made for a long time.Interestingly the UK for many years had the largest fleet of all electric vehicles in the world. Unfortunately most of them could only do about 8mph.
Speed 3 said:
Is there still such a thing as milk delivery ?????
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