@ⱮᏁℛ That looks like a gaussian or that picture of the spider that ate an elephant. Not sure if this ping is gonna work.

@IͶΔ I appreciate that (^o^)/

@Kurzd I changed my name, so it won't. But I just saw your message, so mission accomplished.

@Martin-マーチン Welcome!

Don't read too much into the name; it's just a cooler way of typing "INA" CC @Jan @Mith

So I finally gave in to the nickname I earned by @Mart-sensei.

I am glad you accepted you fate ;)

Also 12 pings isn't that bad. Let's see how the meta post is going.

I did a bit of cleaning and then featured it

@Martin-マーチン T-72 you!

wut?

T-72 is a tank, and tank is a misspelling of "thank".

ah!

Hiho

@tschoppi o/

@Martin-マーチン Ciao ciao

It always amazes me how much time I can sink into one teeny tiny little answer

haha... i know what you're talking about

the other time i was answering a question about how benzene bonds to TMs... and endud up spending almost all day calculating bis(benzene)chrome

i didn't even use it for the answer in the end -.-

Hehe... Yeah. I tried to implement a Theil-Sen slope estimator. Something must have gone wrong somewhere, though. Or the data just wasn't really suted for that method. So yeah, tons of time wasted ^^

sometimes wasting time is all we need to learn though...

i guess there is always a valuable lesson somewhere

Hear, hear!

hmmm... currently I am trying to find out, why /usr/local/bin is not available inside a PBS job.... it drives me nuts... especially i'd like to understand the logic behind that :(

Don't even start to try to understand all the different bin and sbin directories...

well...

Can't you just add it to your $PATH at the beginning of the job?

i could... also i know which program i want to execute, so i don't really need it in the path, but i'd rather like to know if something could break if i just add it to the path

also i need to know this for my interactive sessions

I don't think anything should break if you add it to the path... But hardcoding the program would be better for documentation reasons, no?

Then you always know "this was executed with program v4.2.4b-0af3e226"

ohh it's much simpler, because it's just about accounting within the pbs job...

it should not break anything

HCl is a stronger acid than H2SO4

How then this reaction is possible?

> H2SO4 + 2 NaCl

I wonder if there's a question about this on Chem SE

What are the reaction products?

HCl + Na2SO4

is HCl gas evolved? That would be the driving force then

I see. So even a milder acid might drive a stronger acid out of the salt if one of the resulting products is a gas.

Exactly. It's all about the equilibrium state. If you remove one of the reactants (be it starting materials or products) you influence the equilibrium towards the reactant you removed.

The search term I use to find homework questions that might be worthwhile answering: [homework] answers:0 duplicate:no closed:no is:question score:3

Are all the pka values given for aniline derivatives everywhere 14-pkb or something (although it is conceptually for conjugate acid base pair)? can't really understand

@tschoppi You can stretch the score a bit.

You can use something like score:3.. so any questions that have 3 or more votes will come up. If you want to specify two ranges, try something like score:3..5.

@ELiT I pinned it and I don't really understand what you're trying to say.

@IͶΔ Why would I want to do that? Higher-ranking questions without answers are more likely to be relevant

@tschoppi Well

Why would you not want to see a question with a score of 5?

score:3 gives you questions with score 3 or more

Weird. It shouldn't.

@tschoppi It does?

Yes, it does. It's even documented in the "Advanced Search Tips"

Jots down Interesting: so score:3 and score:3.. function the same way for some reason.

Interesting... I didn't know you could give ranges like 3..5

We both learned something today :)

Yippee

Well, I never used it in any other format than range thingy.

So @TSc, if you type something like score:..x or votes:..x, it will stuff with lesser votes than x. Might be worth noting when you're hunting reversal badges. :)

I wonder where @Tan is. I was hoping he'd get excited to see finally I've decided to get TRE 2 rolling.

North Korea has a meth addiction problem? Curious.

Hullo @Paweł and @hwlau! Welcome to the Table!

Hey @Mith; how's it going today?

@IͶΔ o/

@Mithoron \o

How're you doing?

Can you get what they mean?

@IͶΔ Feeling strange.

@Mithoron Too much junk food?

Too much normal food possibly :D

@IͶΔ He's confused that pKbH+ is put instead of pKa

@Mithoron So just reply to him man; type :27311298 in the beginning.

@Mith do we have a good example of a strong acid that isn't a strong electrophile or vice versa?

@ELiT pK of conjugate acid is precisely called pKBH+ but it's also often called pKa which may be misleading

@IͶΔ Strong acids aren't strong electrophiles

@Mithoron Not necessarily, I know.

But I want a good example to prove it.

You know, the best tongue-and-cheek response is an invalidating example.

Also @Jan @Mart, where are your ideas for TRE 2? ಠ_ಠ

It's a weird feeling.

I feel like I know what thermodynamic and kinetic stability mean, but I don't know what they mean.

@IͶΔ Why?

@Mithoron Dunno.

They just seem, kinda vague to me.

Like, it's the nth time I'm studying magnets and stuff, and I still don't understand them.

Maybe I'm getting too philosophical.

@Mith why can't there be a magnetic monopole?

@IͶΔ There might be exotic particles called magnetic monopoles

@Mithoron Does the middle char of their name look like a reversed N?

@IͶΔ Doesn't display for me

Only square with numbers

I'M INNOCENT

sorry, {I know what pKa means} chem.wisc.edu/courses/116/OtherDoc/… look up any base like ortho methyl aniline and it says 4.4 pKA .. it should be around 30 something? and if its pka of conjugate acid, then solvent would also come into play? like pKw=14 for water and something for DMSO

@ELiT Yes it's actually pKBH+ in water, in other solvent would be different