@BerryHolmes , My first thought on that question was that pressure change was insignificant, but I haven't calculated it or anything. I wonder about the thermal conductivity between thinner air and the solid vs. at sea level too.
@BerryHolmes , I just saw all that serial DV stuff, I hope you're not too upset about it, just some idiot. It seems like there should be a way for the mod's to find who did that. I'd heard of it but that's the first time I've seen it happen to anyone...bummer.
@airhuff Nah, but a while ago Michelle was telling us about how she was serial DV'ed as well; the script gave me back a few rep so no worries. And hi @heather.
I'm reading this paper and in section 2.1 it defines a reaction as "an element [of a list] $\rho = (\mathbf{r},\mathbf{p}) \in \mathbb{N}^{|Lambda}\times\mathbb{N}^{\Lambda}$ [where $\Lambda$ is a finite set of species (basically chemicals)], where $\mathbf{r}$ and $\mathbf{p}$ specify the stoichiometry of the reactants and products, respectively." It later gives an example
a reaction is written as "$\rho = A+B\rightarrow C$ (in this example, $\mathbf{r} = (1,1,0)$ and $\mathbf{p} = (0,0,1)$)."
I originally interpreted it as meaning that $\mathbf{r}$ and $\mathbf{p}$ were how many molecules of each species there were on each side (i.e., $\Lambda = \{A,B,C\}$, and on the left there's one molecule of A, one of B, and 0 of C, and so on)
@heather , yea, I'm really not familiar with the concepts in that paper. It does look like r simply represents the reaction coefficients for each component of the reaction (0 if it only appears as a product) and the reverse for p. Not very helpful, I know, sorry.
@heather , btw, none of your markup renders in my browser...don't know if that's just my browser or what.
i didn't consider users in here might not have it - it's pretty common in the math and physics chatrooms - mathjax has a chemistry package so i thought it might be used in here.
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partly because the algorithm given in the paper is so darn confusing, i'm having trouble getting even an idea of what I need to do to implement it - currently I'm having to learn about how to figure out algorithmic complexity because GOTOs are a no-no in Python, and I think I have a workaround, but I don't know if it still works in polynomial time
@PrittBalagopal also this is, not actually nuking, while nuclear bombs are known to perform magic tricks that renders things invisible :P, q+a on SE are soft-deleted (which means, they're just hidden).
I had a big doubt in metallurgy. Can someone help me?
My question is when do we do refining? For example, take silver. We obtain silver by Mc-Arthur Forest process(cyanide process). Is it now necessary to do electrolytic refining or is electrolytic refining done from direct ore in case we wanted to avoid cyanide process?
I mean my doubt is if electrolytic refining is done after taking out silver from its ore or directly from its ore?
I think the reason why people were down-voting (including me) was the way you tried to get your point across. Your tone was a little inappropriate, your formatting was essentially non-existent, which distracted from the actual content of your answer. If I have to sort the noise out before I understand what you are saying, I don't find that helpful, hence I down-voted. Thanks to the efforts of @M.A.R. your answer got better. — Martin - マーチン ♦24 hours ago
A study found that a particular herb fueled cancer at nM concentrations but actually inhibited cancer in μM concentrations. Which is the higher concentration, nM or μM?
@BerryHolmes I suppose it wasn't really a question so much as a case of someone googling it. I was kind of bored so answered, but am surprised it hasn't yet been closed
@NotBaran Oh, but I think that this comes from a person with no background knowledge of chemistry, perhaps they don't even know what is meant by concentration or micro or nano prefixes, they just want to know which is greater so that they can comprehend the article they're reading
@BerryHolmes I don't think it's much of a copyright issue, but probably it's a good idea to ask them out of courtesy.
I'd feel kind of weirded out if somebody took my profile pic and used it as theirs (in my case, it might even be considered an attempt at moderator impersonation, but that will depend on context.)
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A study found that a particular herb fueled cancer at nM concentrations but actually inhibited cancer in μM concentrations. Which is the higher concentration, nM or μM?
The Periodic Table
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