Alkali metals n Water Video Chemical reactions experiment Magically owesome

What are Alkali Metals?

Alkali metals are a group of elements with the ability to be highly reactive when they get in contact with water. They are soft and shiny chemical elements that are listed in the periodic table.

Here's a list of alkali metals:
lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, caesium, francium, hydrogen.

Alkali metals are also good conductors of heat and electricity and they are useful for many different applications.

In this video you can see how highly reactive alkali metals are in water.
The almost magical reaction happens with the use of the last element in this experiment.





pic: alkali metals chemical elements collage

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How I didn't become psychologist therapist life coach Questions n Answers The whole story

All about how I didn't become a psychologist or therapist or life coach.

May be it was possible for me to become a psychologist or therapist or life coach if I could ever imagine being one, even though I feel like I should at least know why I did not become one or even think of it as a possibility.

I always liked to read everything psychological and could never imagine however or never even thought of or considered doing this as a job and becoming a psychologist. I never wrote something about it ether, I only read what others had to say on this subject and I read a lot of psychological works. I could say I studied it instead of 'read' based on the level of interest that I had in this. Writing about it is something I was curious about for a while, I felt like I'd want to be able to express this strange situation even if it's just for my own understanding, and even if it's just to say why I could never do this professionally.

While I am not a psychotherapist, not even a life coach or a psychologist or anything else in that category I like to talk about this stuff, think about different psychological questions, solutions and all things that are psychology related. May be I'm a hobbyist or may be I'm an amateur psychologist, whatever the case is I have my opinion on a ton of psychological situations, I would just never attempt to become a professional in that area for the reason largely unknown to me regardless how deep I can get trying to solve all kinds of questions, but never knowing how to answer this one.

Why with so much interest in psychology I could never imagine going through some special formal training or trying to earn money for providing this kind of services. This is a little bit of a mystery and I'm not even trying to answer it even if it looks like I am.

Yes, it makes me wonder why I would not try to become a therapist and make a living by being a therapist. Every time that I think I could I know I wouldn't.

I did take college classes in psychology because I was interested in the subject and thought I should take a college class on this to learn more but this was it and a few classes is all I did for this as far as formal education is considered in this particular area.
Everything else I ever try to learn about it was done through readings, watching and talking. I didn't think of it as learning, I just did what I wanted to do and read what I was interested in the most.



pic: My psycho-logical thoughts.
Questions and Answers story

So the furtherest I can go in this is share my views through writing, if somebody likes it and find it valuable that's all right. I could even write more and may even give helpful answers in this area. I just wouldn't sit down with someone and try to solve their problems while getting paid for it at the same time.

I did try to explain this and think why I can't even consider doing this as a business or a job, but I give up and writing about it is my only option to do any kind of moves in that direction. If I write something useful and it helps somebody that is cool and I wouldn't mind answering and trying to solve some questions, all that is fine. As long as it's not an office like visit and I'm not in the position where I would have someone come to me as a client or patient expecting me to have some very special information about some very special things that an ordinary person wouldn't know about, I feel like I'm all right with it.

Often times I spent countless hours with my friends trying to suggest the best solutions for various situations and they expressed their thank-yous and told me those were good suggestions and right ideas that we were coming up with during those discussions. And that was good enough, and I never thought I could be paid for that type of things.

And this is all I can come up with for the moment about why I would not be a psychologist or a therapist or a life coach tonight.

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Make low reduced salt vinegar pickles olives capers from canned ones Low sodium recipe

How to take out salt and vinegar from store bought canned pickles, olives, capers.

Make tasty reduced salt and vinegar salads and sandwiches.

Salt and vinegar are great for preserving food. Pickled food can stay edible indefinitely or at list for a very very long time. The only thing is - to eat that food, that has so much salt and vinegar in it that it never spoils is not very pleasant nor good.

Pickles, olives, capers are some of the food that is made with the help of a huge amount of salt and vinegar and using it straight from the can or jar brings all that salt and vinegar into your salad, entrée, sandwich or anything you ad it to or mix it with.

You can always remove excess salt and vinegar from any store bought pickled food and this method that I'm describing bellow is very easy and works well for olives, cucumbers, capers and many other salty vinegary foods.

Cut your olives.



pic: cut green pimento olives

First you need to drain your pickles or olives or whatever it is that you are using completely and ahead of the time when you intend to use it so that it dries from that brine solution it was in. After you drain them you can cut it in halves or smaller size pieces. Smaller pieces release more vinegar and salt.

Keep your drained pickled foods in a glass jar with a lid in the refrigerator until you are ready to use it. You can take out and drain a portion of your pickles only and leave the rest in the brine if you don't use it all at the same time. I noticed that capers or olives keep well for a very long time after being drained. That tells you how much salt and/ or vinegar they have absorbed already while being in the brine solution.

If you want to reduce salt and vinegar even more and make it really low sodium food, just soak your picked items in fresh water for a while then drain the soaking water also. It's best to use cold water for soaking so that it doesn't extract additional flavor from pickles or olives since you are going to discard that water.

Keep the jars with your pickled foods always refrigerated. If you try the water you soaked it in you may be quite surprised how salty/ vinegary it is. You'd never use that water for any dish so no point using your pickles when they are loaded with all that vinegar/ salt.

You can even change the soaking water more than once if it's still too salty. It's not unusual for pickles, olives and especially capers to be preserved in a very strong brine initially, probably much stronger than necessary but it guaranties that the stuff wont spoil for a long time.



pic: pimento and almond olives
take out the vinegar. reduce vinegar and salt in pickled olives

Using salt and vinegar will keep food fresh but you can remove it from food when you're ready to use it. That will make your meal even tastier and fresher.



pic: glass jars with green olives
whole olives in brine solution. drained and cut olives

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