Sorry to stray a bit from the chemistry mandate of this forum but I cannot help but notice that the original question contains a fundamental logic flaw. It uses the term 'we'. If the inquirer is American then he is 'way off' because the 'we' who actually have the trillions are the ultra rich 1%, ...

Bad titles are a sickness. If you don't treat 'em ASAP, they'll take over your body, even if you consider them a single cold. Now don't tell me I'm over-dramatic. (I am but that isn't relevant.) The other site I'm active on, ELL, realized the problem when it was too late. Thus, the editors don't...

I was given http://stackoverflow.com/review/first-posts/8973480 as an audit to 'first question' asked by a user. I wrote a (rather lengthy) comment that the question could be structured better by first stating the topic and the intent or question in words and asking how the follow-up conditions r...

Given a galvanic cell with nickel and aluminum electrodes, draw the cell, labeling anode, cathode, electron motion and ion motion. write the two half-reactions and the overall reaction for the cell. calculate the $E_\text{cell}^\circ$ . If NaOH was added to the anode half-cell, explain the ef...