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Q: Someone is advertising car insurance on Chem.SE... should I buy it?

(Okay, sarcasm aside) I was browsing through the badge list a while ago and got an eyeful of this: I couldn't get them all in one screenshot, but these are the (spam) accounts I've seen so far (I suspect there are more, but they probably got pushed down the list by the time I had a look...

M.A.R.

@CowperKettle "wrong name" is something too vague to help you get to a single molecule. "Meh name" does get you to one specific molecule, but is from an obsolete nomenclature system so people would beat you up for using the name. "Good name" is using systems of not too far ago, and reaching one molecule again, and "awesome name" is the name IUPAC suggests

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orthocresol

12:37 PM

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Q: reference request- Chemical bond

I am currently studying in high school (12th), my age is 17. I am in dire need of a textbook that addresses the chemical bond and meets the following requirements: Content The book does not presuppose that the reader knows anything about the chemical bond. It slowly starts right from the dawn o...

bond

> dire need

Martin - マーチン

1:08 PM

HATS!

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orthocresol

3:32 PM

@Martin-マーチン countdown to hats*

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Bounty Hunter

9:09 PM

Q: Observability of Orbitals and Orbital Energies

This question comes from some thoughts I had after reading this question. First of all, is an orbital an observable? I know the answer to this question is no because there is no "single-orbital operator" or whatever you'd like to call this. I brig this up because exactly what this means should b...