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November 21, 2011 02:52 pm PST

Measuring Pepper Spray on the Scoville scale of chili pepper hotness

If you're heading out to an Occupation today AND you're a fan of tasty, tasty chili peppers, you'll want to read this essay "About Pepper," in Scientific American. The reason pepper-spray ends up on the Scoville chart is that you probably guessed this - its literally derived from pepper chemistry, the compounds that make [...]


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