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Hi all. I've found draft about foam nerf darts and copied it to my sandbox, now looking for number of the patent that specifies this invention. According to literature it was a patent in 1992 by Lonnie Johnson. In the end I would like to find out when did the company try to clean up their different types of ammunition and what reasons motivated them to keep the nerf darts while phasing out many others. Advice about where to find sources about this would be appreciated, I tried Google Patents but they do not have a matching patent listed. Thank you in advance. -- Gryllida ( talk) 01:15, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
107.15.157.44 ( talk) 03:20, 10 May 2020 (UTC)And I wanted to have that part of the market too. So I started developing Nerf dart guns, and I developed guns that outperformed the guns that Hasbro had on the market at the time. And eventually ended up doing a deal with Hasbro to license my dart guns.
Under the shelter-in-place order still in effect where I am (Bay Area of California), we're grocery shopping less frequently and so instead of my usual banana, I'm putting a half to whole orange from the tree in the backyard on my breakfast cereal. I had thought that the banana had more potassium, and that was the original reason for the choice of fruit, but googling it I see several sites claiming dietary authority stating that a medium-sized orange has more potassium than a medium-sized banana, while others say the reverse. Which is correct? Also, why do my multi-vitamins contain so little potassium, only 2% of recommended daily value? I checked the dietary section of the potassium article and found statements there that most people in the US and many in the EU take in too little potassium in their diet, so what is the concern in the formulation of the supplement? Is the thinking that potassium is adequately supplemented from fortified foods, such as the cereal, which I see gives a potassium content of 6% RDA for a standard serving, three times the vitamin tablet? Yngvadottir ( talk) 18:02, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
I only skimmed through the abstract of that source, but our article claims albeit without a source that the problem is concentration related and that it can also cause lesions on the gastric mucosa, also unsourced but a quick search finds e.g. [2] which discusses lesions on the upper gastrointestinal mucosa and this case study [3] so I suspect it's true.
A quick search also suggests an orange has about 181mg of potassium per 100g. True this is nearly double the maximum per pill, but 100g is still a very large quantity. I don't know if potassium is concentrated in a certain area if it is, still even if it is I'm quite doubtful the concentration is comparable to a tiny tablet with a high level of potassium especially given also the different way these are consumed.Perhaps a cheweable tablet would help, although chewable doesn't generally mean definitely will be chewed completely, and even then I wonder if you may have to make it fairly large to work. Of course if 99 mg is fine for a small tablet, you may do okay with 200mg with a well decided larger tablet, still it seems complicated so I'm not particularly surprised the FDA may have chosen a "one size fits all" approach.
In any case I'm also doubtful that this is really a complete ban. The nature of the way the FDA and approvals work means I suspect you probably could get one approved, if you prove it's safe. However the cost of such an approval would like dwarf any expected profit.
Side question: Elements whose symbols appear to be unrelated (typically because they come from a different language), such as potassium (K), tin (Sn), lead (Pb) etc, are a triviaphile's delight. Do we have a list of abbreviations etc, not confined to the chemical elements, that are like this? -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 21:32, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
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Hi all. I've found draft about foam nerf darts and copied it to my sandbox, now looking for number of the patent that specifies this invention. According to literature it was a patent in 1992 by Lonnie Johnson. In the end I would like to find out when did the company try to clean up their different types of ammunition and what reasons motivated them to keep the nerf darts while phasing out many others. Advice about where to find sources about this would be appreciated, I tried Google Patents but they do not have a matching patent listed. Thank you in advance. -- Gryllida ( talk) 01:15, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
107.15.157.44 ( talk) 03:20, 10 May 2020 (UTC)And I wanted to have that part of the market too. So I started developing Nerf dart guns, and I developed guns that outperformed the guns that Hasbro had on the market at the time. And eventually ended up doing a deal with Hasbro to license my dart guns.
Under the shelter-in-place order still in effect where I am (Bay Area of California), we're grocery shopping less frequently and so instead of my usual banana, I'm putting a half to whole orange from the tree in the backyard on my breakfast cereal. I had thought that the banana had more potassium, and that was the original reason for the choice of fruit, but googling it I see several sites claiming dietary authority stating that a medium-sized orange has more potassium than a medium-sized banana, while others say the reverse. Which is correct? Also, why do my multi-vitamins contain so little potassium, only 2% of recommended daily value? I checked the dietary section of the potassium article and found statements there that most people in the US and many in the EU take in too little potassium in their diet, so what is the concern in the formulation of the supplement? Is the thinking that potassium is adequately supplemented from fortified foods, such as the cereal, which I see gives a potassium content of 6% RDA for a standard serving, three times the vitamin tablet? Yngvadottir ( talk) 18:02, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
I only skimmed through the abstract of that source, but our article claims albeit without a source that the problem is concentration related and that it can also cause lesions on the gastric mucosa, also unsourced but a quick search finds e.g. [2] which discusses lesions on the upper gastrointestinal mucosa and this case study [3] so I suspect it's true.
A quick search also suggests an orange has about 181mg of potassium per 100g. True this is nearly double the maximum per pill, but 100g is still a very large quantity. I don't know if potassium is concentrated in a certain area if it is, still even if it is I'm quite doubtful the concentration is comparable to a tiny tablet with a high level of potassium especially given also the different way these are consumed.Perhaps a cheweable tablet would help, although chewable doesn't generally mean definitely will be chewed completely, and even then I wonder if you may have to make it fairly large to work. Of course if 99 mg is fine for a small tablet, you may do okay with 200mg with a well decided larger tablet, still it seems complicated so I'm not particularly surprised the FDA may have chosen a "one size fits all" approach.
In any case I'm also doubtful that this is really a complete ban. The nature of the way the FDA and approvals work means I suspect you probably could get one approved, if you prove it's safe. However the cost of such an approval would like dwarf any expected profit.
Side question: Elements whose symbols appear to be unrelated (typically because they come from a different language), such as potassium (K), tin (Sn), lead (Pb) etc, are a triviaphile's delight. Do we have a list of abbreviations etc, not confined to the chemical elements, that are like this? -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 21:32, 10 May 2020 (UTC)