The Periodic Table

orthocresol

00:19

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How many molecules of Sulphuric acid is needed to neutralise 5ml of Sodium Carbonate and 5 volumes of Tetraoxosulphate (VI) acid when Calcium is heated at a temperature of 200°C using Nickel as a catalyst?

acid-base

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This isn't a homework question, this is a troll.

heather

00:58

hello is anyone around?

i have a question. i'm in physical science (9th grade) and the teacher's been talking about predicting products - the stuff we've done is stuff with two reactants and predict the products (think double displacement, single displacement, synthesis, decomposition, combustion, and a little bit of acid-base reactions). i'm a little ahead and the other day the teacher let me experiment with some of the lab materials out. I mixed sodium bicarbonate, calcium chloride, and water.

Beforehand, I wanted to predict the products. I know how to handle equations with two reactants, but this has three. How would I approach this?

that is, how do i predict the products of $\ce{NaHCO3 + H2O + CaCl2}$?

sorry: how do i predict the products of $\mathrm{NaHCO_3+H_2O+CaCl_2}$?

Gaurang Tandon

02:25

@heather water is almost always a reactant in ionic reactions, since they take place in water only, so really there are still two main reactants ;)

Avatar Shiny

02:51

@GaurangTandon you mean never right because if it's always a reactant then there are still three.

Gaurang Tandon

03:08

@heather as for the products I guess a hissing sound due to slaking of lime, heat evolution, but that bicarbonate ion is problematic; might release CO2 or might impart milkiness to Ca(OH)2. I am entirely not sure

@AvatarShiny i meant two main reactants

Avatar Shiny

I'm not really good with inorganic but I think water will also act as a main reactant in this , wouldn't it?

1,3-feeds

06:00

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Q: Tag for electrophilic aromatic substitution?

There are 14 questions mentioning EAS, 82 questions mentioning "electrophilic substitution", and 48 questions mentioning "electrophilic aromatic substitution". Currently, many of these are tagged "o-chem+reaction mech" or "o-chem+aromatic compounds". I think both of these are rather broad catego...

discussion tags

M.A.R.

09:03

@heather MathJax doesn't work in chat unless you make it work

@heather uh, you just memorize stuff like that, I think

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That's what's so shitty about "predicting" reaction outcomes at your grade

Gaurang Tandon

10:16

anyone looking for this text editing wizardry? ;)

useloom.com/share/91d84cfe0c91413fa9de4925430932b7

pokes-users-who-frequently-make-mathjax/latex-edits

fyi the list of mathjax/latex insertions and their associated keybindings is 100% editable by the user

pH13 - Yet another Philipp

11:07

o/

M.A.R.

11:24

@pH13-YetanotherPhilipp o/

@GaurangTandon I used to, but let's just say I don't have a stable system for SE right now

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Q: Allow me to always tag a mod even if they're not in the room

Scenario: I'm in a site's main chatroom and I want to address a mod about something (not related to a specific post - so I won't flag a post), however, that particular mod hasn't been in the room in over 7 days (or is it 14?) so I can't tag them @[username] I think that a mod of a site should b...

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@Mart hey @Mart, I always unnecessarily tag you, right?

This is already implemented for Chem.

Martin - マーチン

@M.A.R. Yes, @M.A.R., yes.

ಠ_ಠ

M.A.R.

@Martin-マーチン it is highly crucial that a mod be pingable at all times in chat

What if an earthquake happens in the review queues?

Martin - マーチン

@M.A.R. it is highly crucifixable to ping a mod at any times.

@M.A.R. Then they all fall of the shelves and we have to sort them again.

M.A.R.

11:40

@Martin-マーチン well, then we'd need janitors to clean up the mess

BACK TO WORK, JANITOR

@Martin-マーチン provided the pinger is a mortal

Martin - マーチン

@M.A.R. oh noh, we need to elect more janitors

M.A.R.

I'd just fly to the skies

@Martin-マーチン wat

Martin - マーチン

@M.A.R. gets a broom, and @Mithoron geta a broom, and @pentavalentcarbon gets a broom, and @ph13 gets a broom, everybody gets a broom

M.A.R.

I mean, is an election underway?

Like, for real?

@Martin-マーチン no I don't

Martin - マーチン

mass ping, yeah!

M.A.R.

11:43

ONLY witches get brooms

Now I'm not here to judge, but I'm not a witch

@Martin-マーチン feels fun doesn't it

Martin - マーチン

I am not aware of any elections on C.SE

M.A.R.

You're way under using it though

Martin - マーチン

@M.A.R. Do you think we need more mods? Is there too much delay, or not enough presence?

M.A.R.

If I were you, I'd just superping Nicolau or ron and thank them about an edit they made 11 months ago

@Martin-マーチン ugh, you're too questionnairy right now

Martin - マーチン

@M.A.R. you'd be the first to shout mod abuse

M.A.R.

11:47

@Martin-マーチン MOD ABUSE! Hold on, you haven't done it yet

Do it already

Martin - マーチン

meh.

M.A.R.

LAZY MODS!

We need new ones right now!

M.A.R.

11:59

@Gaurang since you love to be pinged, I just improved your edit and we prefer the main question exist in the body too

Not just the title

Gaurang Tandon

@M.A.R. oh, that's new :P will keep that in mind. thanks!

M.A.R.

@Avatar don't forget about the redundant noise like "thank you", "hi" etc.

And don't forget about Mathjax

And keep up the good work, guys.

You might get me my next steward

I love the [Math processing error] in the dupes in the close vote review. They're so lush.

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Q: Isomerism identification

Its about identification of enatiomer or identical or sterioisomer compounds I actually dont know how to answer this type of question plz help.

stereochemistry

The edit will miraculously save the question.

My hair is a bird.

Avatar Shiny

12:17

@M.A.R. handing out compliments , looks like someone really wants to be a mod

;)

M.A.R.

@AvatarShiny Ugh, @Avatar your inconsistent spacing around the parenthesis is edit reasons is annoying

Just type "killed the buzzword" or "better title"

You don't need to write a lecture

There. You like the mean me now?

Seriously though, your edits aren't reviewed by aliens. You don't need a really long edit reason

Avatar Shiny

Too late imma frame the compliment and engrave it on my grave.

M.A.R.

@AvatarShiny Chem is too quiet. The next election will take place in 2030

@AvatarShiny RIP

You were a good editor

Almost

Avatar Shiny

" You were a good editor ..... Almost" - M.A.R that's going to be the epitaph

M.A.R.

You should get off the internet and play a "The Dark Avatar Rises" movie

Avatar Shiny

12:27

I should get off the internet and study

Martin - マーチン

@M.A.R. It should be noted, that there should be some meat on the bone, so writing edited body would not be helpful @AvatarShiny

M.A.R.

@Martin-マーチン ugh

You're right. Slightly

Martin - マーチン

@M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@M.A.R. \(* *)/

Avatar Shiny

@Martin-マーチン I was going to continue writing , Killing buzzwords chapter:___________ anyway

Martin - マーチン

@AvatarShiny killing buzzwords is fine, doesn't need to be super explicit, just when it shows up in the timeline, it should be easily recognisable ... not like in this example: chemistry.stackexchange.com/posts/89321/timeline

added 8 characters, etc...

M.A.R.

12:39

@Martin-マーチン holy crap, that guy loves editing

We should recruit them

Martin - マーチン

argh, no thank you. We need people, who edit once and do most of the work; not people who need three edits to address one problem...

M.A.R.

@Martin-マーチン wha, you don't need me then

:_(

Fine, jerk.

Ragequits

Martin - マーチン

whut? didn't say that

@AvatarShiny works okay ;) chemistry.stackexchange.com/posts/64649/timeline

M.A.R.

"This site mods suck" Writes on Reddit

Martin - マーチン

don't forget to tsuitter it...

M.A.R.

12:44

Keeps writing on FB, Twitter, Tinder, Tender, Slashdot, Slack, and every other place with a text box

Martin - マーチン

tell it to all your friends on icq

M.A.R.

Haha, see, everyone agrees with me

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I'll ask them to hunt you down

Taken 4 movie

Martin - マーチン

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M.A.R.

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It amazes me that despite centuries of religion dominating almost every aspect of life in Britain or at the very least exerting a great deal of influence on the public and private sphere, the English language has managed to retain its non-Christian names of the week (with Tuesday through Friday d...

history time old-english

Wow. Nice.

Much better than Mart's answers.

Avatar Shiny

13:04

@Martin-マーチン Aye, aye captain.

pentavalentcarbon

14:40

@Martin-マーチン wat

Martin - マーチン

dat Ô.o

pentavalentcarbon

15:01

@Martin-マーチン Do you still want to see my dissertation?

Martin - マーチン

sure, Lemmy Havalug is interested

pentavalentcarbon

had to read that out loud

mmm how should I send it to you

gotta build it first...

going to find out what make clean; time make all gives

Martin - マーチン

well, use that machine with the google on it, and find the profile that i'm using, write me a mail, wait for my answer, write me a mail

pentavalentcarbon

duh...ok, in a few minutes

M.A.R.

15:34

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Q: Nuclear Chemistry Questions

I have a couple of questions that I wanted to clarify: 1. Do radioisotopes appear in nature? Where do they come from? 2. I know that carbon dating lets us see the amount of Carbon 14 in it, but where did the Carbon 14 come from. 3. How do we predict what type of decay a random isotope will go thr...

radioactivity nuclear

pentavalentcarbon

it won't let me

M.A.R.

Ha, Loong was so annoyed he closed it himselves

@pentavalentcarbon of course, because you're banned

From whatever you're trying to do

pentavalentcarbon

o_o

M.A.R.

@pentavalentcarbon 😆

pentavalentcarbon

>_<

M.A.R.

15:37

I am new to this site. I would appreciate If you edit and narrow it down to a set of questions. — vandana singh 2 mins ago

Dude, I'm neither Hercules nor a compressor

pentavalentcarbon

I'm surprised that Unicode character appears on my Linux machine

M.A.R.

Hey @Mith

Both Mithes

Mithoron

Hullo

pentavalentcarbon

wow, you're being particularly naughty today

M.A.R.

@pentavalentcarbon I think it feels like when our government forgets to block an image in these chats

@pentavalentcarbon Mith, or Mart?

pentavalentcarbon

15:39

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M.A.R.

I thank you said your speakers are off

pentavalentcarbon

I am on a different computer because I have too many computers

M.A.R.

Show off

pentavalentcarbon

and didn't realize this one played sound properly

M.A.R.

😏

@pentavalentcarbon you're vulnerable to direct ping attacks now.

Nice

pentavalentcarbon

15:41

no, I just turned it off

M.A.R.

I'll hold your speakers hostage . . . Darnit

pentavalentcarbon

it's especially irritating when listening to classical or something quiet and then you hear the gong

Loong

cdn-chat.sstatic.net/chat/se.mp3

M.A.R.

@Loong I think that's Beethoven's work

pentavalentcarbon

@Loong I HATE YOU

M.A.R.

15:46

@Loong I LOVE YOU TO COMPENSATE

I hope it didn't convey the wrong message

Loong

@pentavalentcarbon :-(

pentavalentcarbon

now some other noise is being made, the default Firefox one

everything is trying to trick me today

M.A.R.

I thought you loved the classics

pentavalentcarbon

that's not Beethoven!

M.A.R.

A Trap -- Music composed by Beethoven

Loong

15:51

Symphony No. 5 – fate pinging at the door

pentavalentcarbon

how does one put a fermata over a thunk? that is the real question

M.A.R.

@pentavalentcarbon no, that's "To be or not to be?"

pentavalentcarbon

no, it's Muß es sein?

Loong

:-D

pentavalentcarbon

response is

Loong

16:00

LOL

Tanuj

17:31

Hey @Loong

Guys can you help me with a question on balancing of Redox reactions ?

I tried balancing it but I'm getting the answer as 5:1 , which isn't even any option

imgur.com/a/HKTan

First i balanced Fe by writing its half reaction , then i balanced Mn by writing its half reaction , now i multiplied the first reaction by 5 so as to neutralise the extra electrons

and that gave me the ratio asked as 5:1 . What am i doing wrong ?

M.A.R.

I'd love to help, but imgur is blocked here. Sorry man

Tanuj

@M.A.R. What you mean here , bro ?

M.A.R.

@Tanuj Iran

Tanuj

oh

ibb.co/iqtmt7

Does this work for you ?

M.A.R.

It does

Tanuj

17:40

cool

M.A.R.

Lemme solve it

Tanuj

Okay.

M.A.R.

@Tanuj 4.

5 to 9

Tanuj

Indeed , yes !

Can you please explain the general method of balancing ?

M.A.R.

@Tanuj don't get yourself confused with the half reactions

Tanuj

17:46

I'm getting confused yeah

M.A.R.

So many annoying reactions

Tanuj

with these particular type of reactions where more than 2 species are undergoing redox reactions

M.A.R.

Just form a couple of equations for the overall reaction

Tanuj

can you maybe show your working ?

it would be a lot less confusing.

M.A.R.

Let FeS's coefficient be a, MnO4-'s be b, and H+'s be c

Tanuj

17:47

okay.

M.A.R.

Try to form equations with them.

See, there's one species with Fe on the reactant side and one on the product's

Tanuj

yes

M.A.R.

So a is both for FeS and Fe3+

Tanuj

oh , so you're actually going to equate the atoms on both sides ?

Sorry to interrupt , please continue

M.A.R.

@Tanuj yep. According to each atom, and the overall charge in redox reactions

Same argument, and you get b is both magnesium permanganate, and Mn2+

Tanuj

17:50

yea

M.A.R.

Now, first we get c/2 + 4a = 4b for oxygen

Because H+ reacts and forms H2O

Tanuj

let me see it .

So where do i add H2O in the main reaction ? The products side ?

M.A.R.

And, if we form an equation so charges would balance, we'd get -b + c = 3a -2a + 3b

@Tanuj yep.

Reactants + cH+ gives products + c/2 H2O

Tanuj

got you

M.A.R.

So after this it's easy math: Find c according to a and b in the charges equation, and place it in the oxygen one

Tanuj

17:55

one question , you assumed H2O to be forming because H+ was given.

right ?

What if it wasn't ? There was OH-

M.A.R.

@Tanuj yep

@Tanuj but the catalyst is H+, not OH-

Tanuj

Or not even that , what if there was nothing given ?

M.A.R.

Note that a lot of catalysts catalyze by reacting, and being produced as part of the product

Tanuj

@M.A.R. Its okay , but what if in some other reaction , I'm given OH-

M.A.R.

@Tanuj that won't be fair. And ridiculous

unfidiculous

Tanuj

17:57

Uhm , okay where do i add water in that case then ? Suppose a reaction taking place in basic medium

M.A.R.

@Tanuj depending on what reacts with OH-, you could get water

Or H+

Tanuj

example ?

M.A.R.

Knowledge depletion error

Just Google it

Tanuj

haha sure no problems

M.A.R.

@Tanuj huh, scratch the H+ thing, that might not happen

Tanuj

18:06

okay

M.A.R.

And even if it's produced, it'd react with the other hydroxide ions

I think there was something like that happening though, shrug

Tanuj

@M.A.R. Is this the best you know to solve the above problem ?

M.A.R.

@Tanuj is . . . What? Equations can solve every balancing, and they're good because you know solving the hardest one or two equations will get the result

And you can get fast with it too

Goddamnit autocorrect

Tanuj

@M.A.R. All good , calm down haha

M.A.R.

ARGH

Tanuj

18:09

You need to chill dude ! :)

M.A.R.

@Tanuj I AM PERFECTLY CALM I JUST WANNA DROWN THIS AUTOCORRECT IN A RIVER

Tanuj

lol

M.A.R.

Now, where were we?

Tanuj

where ?

M.A.R.

So, I don't know if I made sense there, but you could always ask a question on the main site

What we need more of is more homework questions where the OP cared to think

Tanuj

18:13

hmm

@M.A.R. chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/42914032#42914032

you surely meant +2b at the last , right ?

M.A.R.

@Tanuj right

That says you're getting it

I should try to get it too.

Tanuj

good , i was worried for a bit. Thanks for the invaluable help man !

M.A.R.

Nah, too lazy

@Tanuj sure thing

Tanuj

How old are you ?

M.A.R.

@Tanuj 19

Tanuj

18:16

ayee ! Same :) I' m from India

M.A.R.

Nice

20 close vote reviews done. EAT THAT, TODD

@Tanuj I'm from Iran

Interestingly, our leaders signed a couple of papers today.

Tanuj

Awesome @M.A.R.

M.A.R.

Coincidence? I think not.

Tanuj

haha

Tanuj

18:34

@M.A.R. You there ?

Got this question i have no idea about . I mean it does involve dividing the total mass by the n factor or the valence factor , but i have no idea in this question how to do that

ibb.co/cHkc0n

Pranav

18:49

Any1 there

I need help

Someone?

Tanuj

@Pranav What is it ?

Pranav

Do you know the function of cucl

After addition of hcl

To an organic compound

More specifically this :

Ch2 = ch-c (triple bond)ch + HCl (reagent used cu2cl2)

What's the use of cu2cl2 here

Tanuj

2

Q: Gattermann-Koch reaction - Role of CuCl

Iam unable to figure out what is the role of $\ce{CuCl}$ in Gatterman-Koch reaction. Does it provides $\ce{Cl-}$ by dissociating into $\ce{CuCl2}$ and $\ce{2Cl-}$, but that can also be achieved by using more $\ce{HCl}$? So why do we add $\ce{CuCl}$ in the reaction?

organic-chemistry reaction-mechanism

Pranav

Just a rate increaser then it seems

Tanuj

yea

Pranav

18:59

So it seems the question was Very simple lol

@Tanuj thanks

Tanuj

@Pranav Anytime :)

@Rick Hey

Rick

Hi

Tanuj

Can you help me on this ? chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/42914663#42914663

26 mins ago, by Tanuj

Got this question i have no idea about . I mean it does involve dividing the total mass by the n factor or the valence factor , but i have no idea in this question how to do that

M.A.R.

@Tanuj well, I hate any question that involves calculating something

But I could help with the chemistry part

Tanuj

@M.A.R. guess we all do

M.A.R.

19:08

What about it is confusing?

Rick

M/8?

Tanuj

yea @Rick

M.A.R.

@Rick I think that's a BMW

If it's not, it's gonna be

Tanuj

Doubt: Which specie's n factor do i consider and why ? And how do i go about calculating it ?

M.A.R.

The hell is n factor? Just ignore the cations, form a reaction, don't forget about the H+, then put the cations back for the annoying calculations

That should work

Tanuj

19:10

@Rick can you explain ?

M.A.R.

But a pizza gets prepared faster than the time it gets to solve this

Tanuj

lol

M.A.R.

Oh, so that's what you call the n factor

I never solve stuff with that. Or maybe I do. Labels are confusing

Rick

Acidic KMnO4 converts oxalic acid to CO2

Tanuj

okay

Rick

19:18

Or in one (C2O4)^2- unit, ON of C is +5, in CO2 it's +4, so çhange in ON for 1 C is 1, but we have 2 C's in it, so 2, like this we have 4 such (C2O4)2- units, so total change in ON is 4x2 = 8, the ON of everything else doesn't change

Tanuj

How do you know that oxidation of others dont change ?

okay understandable

This means this fact that Acidic KMnO4 converts C2O4 to CO2 has to be remembered right ?

@Rick Thanks man !

Rick

Well I knew it since I had it in my Chemistry practical, but yeah

Welcome

Tanuj

@Rick you actually remember things from last year ? !

Rick

19:35

Actually, I should have said +3 in (C2O4)2-, but the difference is the same..

Tanuj

yea i figured that out

i want to study the equivalents and POAC , what must be the best source ?

Rick

khanacademy.org/science/health-and-medicine/lab-values/v/…

I remember this cleared a lot of things for me

Tanuj

Thanks man.

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