@wythagoras Unfortunately, area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/92559/science-educators has been deleted. :-( Do you still have access to the proposed questions?
Nowadays I find more and more of my questions being closed and I don't understand why. I've got the impression that acquiring knowledge isn't the priority here anymore, but rather following some established policies and forms. I think that the homework question policies should be changed. I guess...
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Area 51 is weird, I've never had the blue avatar I have on all other SE sites, and I recently got a yellow avatar in my Area 51 flair and also on some other places, while my normal avatar on A51 is red. And I have a purple avatar on my network wide flair, weird.
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Meanwhile, our search for better guidelines to permanently replace the existing HW policy is still going on; check this @DEAD, if you like:
Abstract: Analyzing the data from the last replace-the-homework-policy question was inconclusive. So back to the drawing board, or really back to this question: what do we really mean when we vote to close questions as homework-like?
As some/many/most people are aware, we are in the midst of a...
Welcome to Chemistry.SE. This appears to be a [homework] question. You should edit your post to include your workings and how you think you would arrive at an answer, else the post might be closed. Once we have an idea of how you're attempting a question I'm sure someone will be able to point you in the right direction! — NotWoodward6 mins ago
@NotN it seems you stretched the magical comment links too far.
@Loong Thank you! Aren't you interested in following the new proposal, by the way? If it doesn't reach the required five followers, it will be closed (again) in three days.
@wythagoras In the last proposal, you also asked "What other areas of chemistry can I combine best with the lessons about the nomenclature of organic compounds?". I like that question. However, I guess, you have already reached your question limit.
@Loong Yeah, I now decided to have a few questions on practical work instead. Feel free to use that question. Your question about units is also a good one.
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@Loong I didn't even fully read that post, but considering that the idea hit me only because there are some 'experiments' going on around the network, you could say that.
Overview
There has been some concerns lately about whether we close too much. So we start giving leniency a chance. Scroll down to What we do to get to the fun part. Read the rest if you're interested.
Why we do
It's all about answers. Whatever we do here, whether it is commenting, asking, an...
The reaction is this:
The only idea I have thus far is if we have a chloride acid that can form an ester, then we might be able to find a suitable mechanism. This would require a chloride reagent.