The Periodic Table

10:45 AM

hmmm Abstract accepted for a Symposium... not bad for a Tuesday

11:34 AM

@ron speaks german... what a surprise...

@santiago good, good, gratulations...

how's the legwork doing?

btw. @ron did you notice that our good old friend insulted us a little for deleting his question, i thin he insulted Klaus also...

4 hours later…

3:22 PM

@Martin Hullo!

@Martin I was having the discussion with @ADG,

And then my internet went all buzzurkers.

(Wonder if I spell that right)

@ADG You know, with all due respect, getting all angry and insulting people (especially those who taught you something or at least, are older than you) isn't mature.

YES.

IT. ISN'T MATURE.

So that's why I'm gonna need to do some flagging @ADG.

And your rage-quit is the best thing you can do now.

@santiago Hullo. Sorry. I went offline all of a sudden. Are you feeling better?

@ADG Everyone answers. The expert's answer rises to the top because it's comprehensive, descriptive, and helpful.

A: How does radiation facilitate the formation of tetravalent iron?

3:46 PM

@santiago you mean this answer of Loong?

The ionization energy of $\ce{Fe^3+}$ to $\ce{Fe^4+}$ is 54.8 eV. The energy of typical gamma radiation is much higher (in the order of roughly some keV to a few MeV). Depending on the energy, the interaction of average gamma radiation with the affected electron is mainly due to Compton scattering.

4:05 PM

Hullo @Amelia! Welcome to the chatroom!

Hullo @Martin!

@MARamezani Hi... darn that posting from ADG I starred was removed... should have taken a screenshot for my gallery.

How are you doing?

Haha!

@Martin Thanks. I suddenly went offline.

Internet issues.

Otherwise I would've ended up in a fight.

Oh... well, you survived... ;)

@Martin BTW flagged some of his messages.

You should've too.

I chose to ignore the issue... I am very certain, that at least jonsca is aware of the issue.

s/he is watching it with eagle eyes...

4:17 PM

Well, to be frank, what I'd've loved to see was his getting suspended.

Jonsca did lots of clean-ups.

Why, but why, didn't he suspend him?!

I don't know. I would prefer if he'd grew up and learned some manners. I hate giving up on people, especially the very young ones.

@Martin Even me? Looks cute

But then again, there seems nothing you can do about sometimes...

@MARamezani Haha, lol. You seem to be quite alright already... I don't have worries here.

But hey, the guy gave everyone a harsh two days time.

I just noticed that haha and lol are perfectly redundant... rotfl

4:21 PM

I'm as old as him.

You mean young... ;)

It seems you have quite a good moral compass...

No, I mean old.

@Martin But it's rusty.

I guess I'll be old some day... some day far away in the future...

Until then I will be playing with toys regularly...

Big fan of toys...

Dunno, I've been through two chat fights in a week.

@Martin Any chance one of the toys is a test tube and the other is the fume hood?

@MARamezani You should play with toys... calms you down.

@MARamezani Nope, nothing dangerous. Well at least not much.

4:24 PM

Sigh At least recently, my trying to be helpful is perceived as picking on people.

@Martin Yeah...You'll stick to fluoroantimonic for a while.

Nanoblock

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Hahahahhha!

But it's too unfortunate/fortunate that we don't have them here... I got homework to do ya know.

It's like lego but tiny... I need tweezers to build my things

because my hands are too big :D

I gotta go to bed... its 1.30 already.

My little brother (10) plays with these small thingies a lot. But they're called Lego here. They're tinier than usual though.

And he makes funny robots outta them.

@Martin Later!

Good luck with your homework though, you have done it in no time I guess...

Never lose your imagination, it is essential for a researcher!

4:28 PM

@Martin PRECISELY!

@MARamezani See you soon ;)

Ba bye!

2 hours later…

6:05 PM

@Martin mixed, but getting better overall

had to go back to hospital yesterday, but it was briefly

@Martin yes he did, and I am afraid I flagged it as 'rude;

@MARamezani yup, feeling better!

6:21 PM

Hullo @santiago!

What time is it there?

Hullo @SelflessPsychopath! Welcome to the chatroom, or more like, StackExchange!

user146722

Thank you :)

@MARamezani it is currently 4:20am here

user146722

It's 420 somewhere

@santiago That was why I asked.

@MARamezani that' why I answered ;)

user146722

6:24 PM

You guys will inevitably hate me because I'm piss poor at chemistry.

Chemists already get bad sleeping habits. Now mix that with being involved in a SE chat, and you'll get people chatting in 4:20 a.m.

@SelflessPsychopath Of course not.

You're very welcome here!

I'm poor at just about everything - so, don't worry about that!

user146722

Actually do you know what it's called when you figure out the rate / times of reactions based on the amounts of input materials?

@SelflessPsychopath Ah, you mean kinetics? I don't get what you ask though.

@santiago You're perfect in loling...

user146722

Yes kinetics, where should I start reading to apply it in practice?

6:27 PM

Well, you'll need kinetics in the lab.

Just like thermodynamics.

user146722

I would really love if you just hit me over the head with a big generic differential equation.

Theory is only good for exams.

user146722

Do we have the universe solved yet?

user146722

hehe

@SelflessPsychopath An equation for calculating the rate of reactions?

6:28 PM

@MARamezani lol

user146722

Yes, I find myself in a lab fairly often and I could sure use a way to estimate the time a process will take based on the inputs

Which one can you calculate easier? The volume (of the possible solution, gas, etc.)? The mass of the reactants?

user146722

Well the mass is basically always known just because the weight of the vessels are known and scales are commonplace

Well, everything can be a simple calc if you could measure the volume easily.

Hmm, let me think.

user146722

Ok, I can approximate the volume to some sig figs

user146722

6:33 PM

The composition of the substance is within a tolerance, and so the density can be bounded

Already aware of this equation?

user146722

user146722

Does dm^-3 mean decimeters cubed?

Now I'm looking for a good resource for rate consts.

user146722

6:35 PM

I could set up experiments to measure it empirically

@SelflessPsychopath Oh, it's **mol**/(dm^3)

user146722

I caught that, sorry for not being clear

user146722

I guess I should not say I'm "piss poor" but amazingly ignorant

user146722

Some of the substances might be very obscure, we actually produce a food product using organic chemistry and materials

user146722

lol better be clear there too

6:38 PM

Oh my! Organochem reactions are crazy!

user146722

We're trying to get serious, buying the gear to do all our own chromatography

Just so you know, in chemistry we get nice experts on chromatography, and organochem.

I think it's better if you ask a good question there.

I'm just a 16-year-old! :P

user146722

I'm not gonna lie to you, I'm not qualified. I'm gonna look like an idiot

I thought I'm the one looking like an idiot.

user146722

lol no dude you're a 16 year old on the internet schooling a guy who wears a lab coat on work days