Recent Coronal Mass Ejections predicted in 2006

                Been a little hot lately hasn't it..? Getting sunburned a little quicker recently..? I'm sure you have been reading about it, power grids having problems....Russia under intense heat...etc,


 Seen this video of the beaching in Pakistan, from maybe 2 weeks ago...? This is what happens when the magnetic fields start to shift from the Sun's influence. We will probably see a lot more of this.





                       .....Here's the link to the NASA site with the warnings :

                           http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/index.html

...............ok..This article was written almost 5 years ago.



  03.15.06 Researchers say a storm is coming--the most intense solar maximum in fifty years.      It's official: Solar minimum has arrived. Sunspots have all but vanished. Solar flares are nonexistent. The sun is utterly quiet.

Like the quiet before a storm.

   Recently researchers announced that a storm is coming--the most intense solar maximum in fifty years. The prediction comes from a team led by Mausumi Dikpati of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). "The next sunspot cycle will be 30% to 50% stronger than the previous one," she says. If correct, the years ahead could produce a burst of solar activity second only to the historic Solar Max of 1958.
That was a solar maximum. The Space Age was just beginning: Sputnik was launched in Oct. 1957 and Explorer 1 (the first US satellite) in Jan. 1958. In 1958 you couldn't tell that a solar storm was underway by looking at the bars on your cell phone; cell phones didn't exist. Even so, people knew something big was happening when Northern Lights were sighted three times in Mexico. A similar maximum now would be noticed by its effect on cell phones, GPS, weather satellites and many other modern technologies.

    Right: Intense auroras over Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1958.

   Dikpati's prediction is unprecedented. In nearly-two centuries since the 11-year sunspot cycle was discovered, scientists have struggled to predict the size of future maxima--and failed. Solar maxima can be intense, as in 1958, or barely detectable, as in 1805, obeying no obvious pattern.


The key to the mystery, Dikpati realized years ago, is a conveyor belt on the sun.


We have something similar here on Earth--the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt, popularized in the sci-fi movie The Day After Tomorrow. It is a network of currents that carry water and heat from ocean to ocean--see the diagram below. In the movie, the Conveyor Belt stopped and threw the world's weather into chaos.

                                             Above: Earth's Great Ocean Conveyor Belt.

   The sun's conveyor belt is a current, not of water, but of electrically-conducting gas. It flows in a loop from the sun's equator to the poles and back again. Just as the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt controls weather on Earth, this solar conveyor belt controls weather on the sun. Specifically, it controls the sunspot cycle.
Solar physicist David Hathaway of the National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) explains: "First, remember what sunspots are--tangled knots of magnetism generated by the sun's inner dynamo. A typical sunspot exists for just a few weeks. Then it decays, leaving behind a 'corpse' of weak magnetic fields."
Enter the conveyor belt.


"The top of the conveyor belt skims the surface of the sun, sweeping up the magnetic fields of old, dead sunspots. The 'corpses' are dragged down at the poles to a depth of 200,000 km where the sun's magnetic dynamo can amplify them. Once the corpses (magnetic knots) are reincarnated (amplified), they become buoyant and float back to the surface." Presto--new sunspots!

Right: The sun's great conveyor belt. [Larger image]

All this happens with massive slowness. "It takes about 40 years for the belt to complete one loop," says Hathaway. The speed varies "anywhere from a 50-year pace (slow) to a 30-year pace (fast)."


When the belt is turning "fast," it means that lots of magnetic fields are being swept up, and that a future sunspot cycle is going to be intense. This is a basis for forecasting: "The belt was turning fast in 1986-1996," says Hathaway. "Old magnetic fields swept up then should re-appear as big sunspots in 2010-2011."
Like most experts in the field, Hathaway has confidence in the conveyor belt model and agrees with Dikpati that the next solar maximum should be a doozy. But he disagrees with one point. Dikpati's forecast puts Solar Max at 2012. Hathaway believes it will arrive sooner, in 2010 or 2011.


"History shows that big sunspot cycles 'ramp up' faster than small ones," he says. "I expect to see the first sunspots of the next cycle appear in late 2006 or 2007--and Solar Max to be underway by 2010 or 2011."


Who's right? Time will tell. Either way, a storm is coming.

More Information

Solar Minimum Has Arrived -- In 2006, the sunspot cycle has hit bottom. Scientists Issue Unprecedented Forecast of Next Sunspot Cycle -- NCAR press release. Scientists Gaze Inside Sun, Predict Strength of the Next Solar Cycle -- NASA press release. Who's Afraid of a Solar Flare? -- (Science@NASA) Solar activity can be surprisingly good for astronauts.

Feature Author: Dr. Tony Phillips
Feature Production Editor: Dr. Tony Phillips
Feature Production Credit: Science@NASA


http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/10mar_stormwarning.html
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Below are the various types of warnings and possible effects from solar storms.


SUMMARY: 245 MHz Radio Emission Solar Radio Emissions Daily summary of radio interference which can affect critical search and rescue frequencies.
Report of Solar Geophysical Activity (RSGA) Forecasts and Summaries The primary daily report prepared by SWPC. It provides a summary and analysis of solar and geomagnetic activity during the previous 24 hours, the most recent solar indices, and a forecast of activity and indices for the next 3 days.
Geophysical Alert Message (WWV) Forecasts and Summaries Issued every 3 hours (at 0000, 0300, 0600, 0900, 1200, 1500, 1800, and 2100 UTC). Updates are more frequent when activity warrants. Provides information about the current and predicted solar terrestrial conditions.
WATCH: Geomagnetic A-index of 20 or greater predicted Geomagnetic Storm Products Minor system effects.
WATCH: Geomagnetic A-index of 30 or greater predicted Geomagnetic Storm Products Weak power grid fluctuations, minor satellite operation impact. Possible high-latitude power systems affected, satellite drag effect, high-latitude HF radio, high-latitude aurora.
WATCH: Geomagnetic A-index of 50 or greater predicted Geomagnetic Storm Products High-latitude power systems affected, satellite drag effect, high-latitude HF radio, high-latitude aurora. Possible voltage problems, satellite surface charging, HF and low-frequency communication degraded, possible aurora near tropics.
WATCH: Geomagnetic A-Index of 100 or greater predicted Geomagnetic Storm Products Grid system can collapse, extensive satellite surface charging, extended degraded. HF communication and low-frequency navigation.
SUMMARY: 10 cm Radio Burst Solar Radio Emissions Proxy of solar EUV emission, important for satellite drag.
ALERT: Electron 2 MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1,000 pfu Solar Particles Possible differential charging and bulk charging effects on satellites.
Special Announcement News for all Users Information concerning SWPC data, products, and services. User Notes (SWPC's quarterly newsletter). E-mail notification will be sent when the latest version is posted to our web site.
WARNING: Geomagnetic K-index of 5 Geomagnetic Storm Products Weak power grid fluctuations, minor satellite operations impact.
ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 6 Geomagnetic Storm Products High latitude power systems affected, satellite drag effect, high-latitude HF radio, high-latitude aurora.
WARNING: Geomagnetic K-index of 6 Geomagnetic Storm Products High latitude power systems affected, satellite drag effect, high-latitude HF radio, high-latitude aurora.
ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 7 Geomagnetic Storm Products Power system voltage effects, satellite surface charging, HF radio, mid-latitude aurora.
WARNING: Geomagnetic K-index of 7 Geomagnetic Storm Products Power system voltage effects, satellite surface charging, HF radio, mid-latitude aurora.
ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 8 Geomagnetic Storm Products Voltage problems, satellite surface charging, HF and low-frequency communication degraded, possible aurora near tropics.
ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 9 Geomagnetic Storm Products Grid System can collapse, extensive satellite surface charging, extended degraded. HF communication and low-frequency navigation.
SUMMARY: Geomagnetic Sudden Impulse Geomagnetic Storm Products Marks the possible beginning of a geomagnetic storm.
SUMMARY: Proton Event 10 MeV Integral Flux exceeded 100 pfu Solar Radiation Storm Products Infrequent effects on HF through polar regions and satellite operations.
ALERT: Proton Event 10 MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1,000 pfu Solar Radiation Storm Products Degraded HF at polar regions and navigation position errors, satellite effects on imaging systems and solar panel currents, significant radiation hazard to astronauts on EVA and high-latitude aircraft passengers.
SUMMARY: Proton Event 10 MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1,000 pfu Solar Radiation Storm Products Degraded HF at polar regions and navigation position errors, satellite effects on imaging systems and solar panel currents, significant radiation hazard to astronauts on EVA and high-latitude aircraft passengers.
ALERT: Proton Event 10 MeV Integral Flux exceeded 10,000 pfu Solar Radiation Storm Products Blackout of HF through the polar regions and navigation position errors over several days, satellite effects degraded imaging systems and memory device problems, high radiation risk to astronauts on EVA and high-latitude aircraft passengers.
SUMMARY: Proton Event 10 MeV Integral Flux exceeded 10,000 pfu Solar Radiation Storm Products Blackout of HF through the polar regions and navigation position errors over several days, satellite effects degraded imaging systems and memory device problems, high radiation risk to astronauts on EVA and high-latitude aircraft passengers.
ALERT: Proton Event 10 MeV Integral Flux exceeded 100,000 pfu Solar Radiation Storm Products No HF in the polar regions and position errors make navigation operations extremely difficult, loss of some satellites and memory impacts cause loss of control, unavoidable high radiation risk for astronauts on EVA and high-latitude aircraft passengers.
SUMMARY: Proton Event 10 MeV Integral Flux exceeded 100,000 pfu Solar Radiation Storm Products No HF in the polar regions and position errors make navigation operations extremely difficult, loss of some satellites and memory impacts cause loss of control, unavoidable high radiation risk for astronauts on EVA and high-latitude aircraft passengers.
WARNING: Proton 100 MeV Integral Flux above 1 pfu expected Solar Radiation Storm Products Possible minor impacts on HF through polar regions and satellite operations.
Solar & Geophysical Activity Summary (SGAS) Forecasts and Summaries A daily brief list of solar and geophysical events for the previous UTC day.
WARNING: Geomagnetic Sudden Impulse expected Geomagnetic Storm Products Marks the possible beginning of an expected geomagnetic storm.
Space Weather Bulletin Advisories Issued when conditions occur that are of interest to the public.
Space Weather Outlook Advisories Issued Tuesdays, general descriptions of conditions during the past week and an outlook for the next 7 days.
ALERT: Type II Radio Emission Solar Radio Emissions Occur in loose association with major solar flares and are indicative of a shock wave moving through the solar atmosphere.
ALERT: Type IV Radio Emission Solar Radio Emissions Associated with some major solar flare events beginning 10 to 20 minutes after the flare maximum, and can last for hours.
Preliminary Report and Forecast of Solar Geophysical Data (The Weekly) Forecasts and Summaries Space Weather highlights from the previous week and an outlook for the next 27 days. It also includes tables and plots, data, activity, and reports. Note: Email notification will be sent when the latest version is posted to our web site.
ALERT: X-ray Flux exceeded M5 Radio Blackout Products Loss of HF and degradation of low frequency navigation signals for tens of minutes.
SUMMARY: X-Ray Event exceeded M5 Radio Blackout Products Loss of HF and degradation of low frequency navigation signals for tens of minutes.
SUMMARY: X-Ray Event exceeded X1 Radio Blackout Products Wide area loss of HF and low-frequency navigation signals for one hour.
SUMMARY: X-Ray Event exceeded X10 Radio Blackout Products Lost HF and outages of low-frequency navigation signals for one to two hours.
SUMMARY: X-Ray Event exceeded X20 Radio Blackout Products Complete HF blackouts and outages on low-frequency navigation signals for several hours

Let's hear it from a doctor....

 An excerpt from today's Huffington Post, confirming the things I have been saying about COREXIT products and how they are becoming a new vector for infections, ala the article I wrote yesterday, but also the other articles I have been writing for some time now.


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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/riki-ott/emoilgateem-bp-and-all-th_b_667709.html

The official story does not match the reality that I saw from the Cessna or have heard from people I have met during community visits since the well was temporarily sealed - and ever since I first arrived in early May. Public health is a huge concern - and with good reason.

BP has created Frankenstein in its Gulf laboratory: an oil-dispersant chemical stew that so far has contaminated over 44,000 square miles of ocean and caused internal bleeding and hemorrhaging in workers and dolphins alike, according to Hugh Kaufman, a senior policy analyst at the EPA, who recently blew the whistle on the industry-government cover up. BP has sprayed dispersants steadily in the Gulf with Coast Guard approval from the beginning - under the sea, on the surface, offshore, near shore, in inland waters, at night, during the day - despite a public uproar to cease and desist.

The dispersants used in BP's draconian experiment contain solvents such as petroleum distillates and 2-butoxyethanol. Solvents dissolve oil, grease, and rubber. Spill responders have told me that the hard rubber impellors in their engines and the soft rubber bushings on their outboard motor pumps are falling apart and need frequent replacement. They say the plastic corks used to float the absorbent booms during skimming operations dissolve after a week of use. They say the hard epoxy resin on and below the waterline of their fiberglass boats is also dissolving and chipping away. Divers have told me that they have had to replace the soft rubber o-rings on their gear after dives in the Gulf and that the oil-chemical stew eats its way into even the Hazmat dive suits.

Given this evidence, it should be no surprise that solvents are also notoriously toxic to people, something the medical community has long known. In Generations at Risk, medical doctor Ted Schettler and others warn that solvents can rapidly enter the human body: They evaporate in air and are easily inhaled, they penetrate skin easily, and they cross the placenta into fetuses. For example, 2-butoxyethanol is a human health hazard substance: It is a fetal toxin and it breaks down blood cells, causing blood and kidney disorders.

I suspect that the oil-chemical stew is likely the culprit behind the strange rashes reported by people across the Gulf - rashes that break out into deep blisters on legs or repeated peeling on hands. Stories accompany the rashes, stories of handling dead sea turtles, wading or swimming in the Gulf, or washing clothes of spill responders. Medical doctors are diagnosing rashes as staph infections or scabies, but the rashes are not responding to medical treatment as they would if the causation was biological instead of chemical.




Blisters and rashes experienced by fisher and Venice, Louisiana, Councilwoman Kindra Arneson are widespread across the Gulf. Rashes are not responding to treatment for staph or scabies. The cause may be chemical, not biological. 2010 Kindra Arneson.




Cindy Feinberg and her family visited Ft. Walton, Florida, on vacation in mid June when the "ocean was full of tar" and crews were picking up tar balls on the beach. The day after swimming in the Gulf - people were told it was safe, her palms became fiery red and flaked and peeled repeatedly for several days. Other people have shown me similar rashes that have lingered for months. June 18, 2010. Cindy Feinberg.
In Sound Truth and Corporate Myths, I wrote of similar rashes and peeling skin experienced by Exxon Valdez spill responders, especially ones who used dispersants and other chemical solvents. Yet in the Gulf, many doctors are turning a blind eye to chemical causes, because BP insists that solvents "disappear" after only a day or two. Retired toxicologist and forensic chemist John Laseter disagrees. Laseter's long career includes evaluation of human health effects of some of the largest toxic chemical and petroleum releases into the environment in the United States and Europe. He also founded and ran Accu-Chem, a lab that analyzed blood work for criminal justice cases.


Laseter told me that solvents "solubilize" or become soluble in oil and remain a threat for up to two months. He said the oil-solvent mixture sticks on biological tissue - gills of fish, the organic film coating sand grains and raindrops - and can wreak havoc. He told me that the dispersants are "almost certainly" making the oil penetrate more deeply into the skin and could very well be causing the rashes in the Gulf. Other toxicologists confirm that dispersants amount to a "delivery system" for oil: the combination is worse for human and sea life than the oil or dispersant alone.


Yet all the president's men - the Coast Guard, OSHA, NIOSH, FDA, and the EPA (except the EPA whistleblower noted above), in keeping with the cover up, cannot seem to find any unsafe levels of oil or solvents in the air or water. But other people are.


For example, about a week after the oil started coming ashore in Alabama, the Mobile television station WKRG took samples of water and sand from Orange Beach, Gulf Shores, Katrina Key, and Dauphin Island. The test was nothing fancy. The on-air reporter simply dipped a jar into the ocean and another into some surf water filling a sand pit dug by a small child. In the samples, oil was not visible in the water or the sand, but the chemist who analyzed them reported astonishingly high levels of oil ranging from 16 to 221 parts per million (ppm). Except for the Dauphin Island sample -- that one literally exploded in the lab before testing could be completed. The chemist thought maybe the exploding sample contained methane or 2-butoxyethanol.
There is also evidence of dangerous levels of oil in the air. A preliminary study commissioned in mid-July by Guardians of the Gulf, a community-based nonprofit organization in Orange Beach, Alabama, found that nightly air inversions - common in the area during the summer and fall - were trapping pollutants near the ground.


Total Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) - including the carcinogen benzene, and oil vapors - reached 85 to 108 ppm at 9:00 a.m. but rapidly dropped to zero (or nondetectable) within half an hour as the sun burned through the inversion layer. (For comparison, the federal standard for 15-minute exposure to benzene is 5 ppm.) The EPA did find unsafe levels of VOCs once in early May, but pulled much of its early data, as I reported earlier.

Such high levels could explain the bout of respiratory problems, dizziness, nausea, sore throats, headaches, and ear bleeds that I have heard about from residents and health professionals from Houma, Louisiana, to Apalachicola, Florida. Even the oil industry knows that these chemicals are unsafe. As long ago as 1948, the American Petroleum Institute confirmed, "The only absolutely safe concentration for benzene is zero."
When we landed after our 2-hour flight, our pilot told us that she sometimes has to wipe an oily reddish film off the leading edges of her plane's wings after flying over the Gulf. Hurricane Creekkeeper John Wathem documented similar oily films on planes he chartered for Gulf over-flights. Bonnie doesn't wear gloves when she wipes her plane. She showed me her hands -- red rash, blisters, and peeling palms.

If peeling palms are an indication of the oil-solvent stew, the reddish film on Bonnie's plane and others means that the stew is not only in the Gulf, it is in the rain clouds above the Gulf. And in the middle of hurricane season, this means the oil-solvent mix could rain down anywhere across the Gulf.

Why all this pretend in the Gulf by BP and all the president's men except the EPA whistleblower that oil and dispersants are not toxic? By comparison, last week in Calhoun County, Michigan, an Enbridge pipeline ruptured, spilling at least 19,500 barrels of oil. At least thirty families were temporarily relocated because of the stench and roads and beaches were closed. Health officials have warned people to stay away from the fumes and beaches, and to avoid swimming and fishing near oiled areas. "It's a very toxic and dangerous environment," Calhoun County health officer Jim Rutherford said.

If spilled oil is "toxic and dangerous" in Michigan, it's also toxic and dangerous in the Gulf. But in the Gulf, public officials have downplayed the health risk despite hard evidence of an epidemic of chemical illnesses related to, I believe, the oil-chemical stew.

The fact that the official story in the Gulf does not match what people are experiencing is more alarming to me than the oil disaster. How can our president hold BP accountable if he accepts - or worse is complicit in - the crime?

Correcting the false official story is the first step toward holding the criminal accountable to the law and lore of the land. If the government fails to hold the criminal accountable, as it did during the Exxon Valdez, then the people and environment will bear the costs of this avoidable tragedy.

leaking gauges

NEW ORLEANS -- The preliminary steps of BP PLC's effort to kill a damaged deepwater well in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico by flooding it with thousands of barrels of drilling mud were delayed until Tuesday, as the company discovered a hydraulic leak in the control mechanism of a cap that's keeping the well shut.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704271804575405311825038950.html?ru=yahoo&mod=yahoo_hs

Where does it go ?

Environmental Protection Agency said it's safe to eat

 From MSNBC, a little BS spin, to start this post.

WASHINGTON — A study using two sensitive Gulf species shows that the chemical dispersant used by BP in the Gulf, when mixed with oil, was less toxic than the oil itself, the Environmental Protection Agency said Monday.

The test results were released as the Obama administration defended itself against assertions that officials allowed BP to use excessive amounts of dispersants.

The EPA said it tested eight available dispersants — including the one used by BP, known as Corexit 9500.
When mixed with oil, Corexit is also less toxic or no more toxic on the two Gulf species tested — a shrimp and a small fish — than other available chemicals that could be used as an alternative, the EPA stated. Juvenile shrimp and fish were used since they are more sensitive to chemicals than adults.

"Dispersants were less toxic than oil or oil-dispersants mixture," Paul Anastas, EPA's assistant administrator for research and development, told reporters.

Anastas said he was surprised to learn that the mixture of dispersant and oil was about the same toxicity as the oil alone.

That result shows that use of the dispersant "seems to be a wise decision, and that the oil itself is the hazard that we're concerned about," Anastas said. He called the oil that spewed into the Gulf for nearly three months "Enemy No. 1."


 ....sniff sniff...you smell that.....?


When it really comes down to it, COREXIT’s molecular encapsulations of the oil could very easily contain common microbes found in seawater, which are also responsible for infections. This one in particular eats jet fuel and people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudomonas_aeruginosa

This could be a new vector for the transmission of microbes and viruses, prions, etc,.into living organisms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteomyelitis


Again, for me at least, I am very interested to know how long these micro-encapsulations last. The one formulation, of the one ingredient in the COREXIT products used in the Gulf, is the one they won’t reveal, for fear of revealing a horrendous secret.

It’s even possible, due to the nature of the “micelle” encapsulations, that were they to enter into a living organism, but remain intact for some unknown amount of time, embedded in tissues, before being destroyed and removed by immune systems, any microbes which have been inside them, effectively “dormant” will once again be released into the bloodstream of the organism, initiating infection again, likely systemic. There are a great number of different microbes and resulting infections that can occur, all you have to do is look up terms like "sea water infections  and microbes " , you'll find plenty of information.

 Take into consideration of the size of a molecular encapsulation .

20-40 microns(µm)

The microbes,.. their size ranges in microns also The smallest microbe known is mycoplasma(PPLO). It is 0.1micron in size.The bacteria are 1micron to few microns in size. The number of microbes may be infinite, because they multiply at a speedy rate. Usually, a single bacterium reproduces into two daughter bacteria in 20 minutes. So the process goes on . In a couple of days millions of bacteria are produced from a single bacterium.

Some recent pics from Gulf of Mexico swimmers, just a few, I don't want to gross you out....or me out.

So let's just say, hypothetically , that one , or more, of these "micelles", encapsulations full of oil and bacteria, can invade the body through the skin.

 They are formed out of what is called a sulfonic salt.

There are several varieties of salts. Salts that hydrolyze to produce hydroxide ions when dissolved in water are basic salts and salts that hydrolyze to produce hydronium ions in water are acid salts. Neutral salts are those that are neither acid nor basic salts. Zwitterions contain an anionic center and a cationic center in the same molecule but are not considered to be salts. Examples include amino acids, many metabolites, peptides and proteins.
 I won't give a long winded post, here's the links if you want to know about COREXIT

Non Ionic: essentially non toxic (> 100g/kg)
– Sorbitan mono oleates -- preferred for most dispersants
– Alkyl/Phenoxy polyethoxy ethanols
– Ethoxylated alkyl phenols
• Anionic: slightly toxic to moderately toxic (1-10g/kg)
– Alkyl sodium sulfates
– Sulfonates
– Sulfonated petroleum oils ---------------------------
 " Assessment Plan for the Linear Alkylbenzene (LAB) Sulfonic Acids Category in Accordance with the USEPA High Production Volume Chemical Challenge Program  "

" 27-37 days to break down "
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" Sulfonic acids are a class of organic acids with the general formula RSO₂-OH, where R is usually a hydrocarbon side chain.  Sulfonic acids are typically much stronger acids than their carboxylic equivalents, and have the unique tendency to bind to proteins and carbohydrates tightly; most "washable" dyes are sulfonic acids (or have the functional sulfonyl group in them) for this reason.  They are also used as catalysts and intermediates for a number of different products. Sulfonic acid salts (sulfanates) are important as detergents, and the antibacterial sulfa drugs are also sulfonic acid derivatives.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfonic_acid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwitterion
http://www.3rd1000.com/chem301/chem301x.htm

U.S. Department of Labor :


SECTION II: CHAPTER 2

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OCCUPATIONAL SKIN EXPOSURE

http://www.osha.gov/dts/osta/otm/otm_ii/otm_ii_2.html



......what the hell is happening in the Gulf....?