The Periodic Table

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Avnish Kabaj

12:25 AM

Is there any way for me to get notified wether a particular question has been answered?

Gaurang Tandon

@Mithoron because I was looking for a good answer :-)

@AvnishKabaj subscribe to its RSS feed, there's a link at the bottom of every question page

Avnish Kabaj

Lemme see

I can't find it

On the desktop site too

Gaurang Tandon

12:42 AM

It's right below the HNQ list on the desktop site

Avnish Kabaj

1:01 AM

@GaurangTandon Found it

But doesn't work for mobiles

orthocresol

1:26 AM

@AvnishKabaj mark it as a favourite (star button below the voting buttons), then you get a SE notification when there is a new answer

Gaurang Tandon

@orthocresol huh, when did this happen? I have tons of favorites but never got a notification :/

One question though, perhaps it is something obvious but I still don't understand it, why don't the users - those who don't want to look at old bumped posts - use the Newest Questions page, instead of the front page?

Avnish Kabaj

@orthocresol I don't get notifications after marking it as a favorite

Looks like I'll have to ask on Meta Stackexchange why RSS feeds don't work on phones

@GaurangTandon it took me time to understand but it's very important that the active questions page isn't clogged up

Stackexchange is built upon quality and a major part of that is peer review

The users need to see every new answer and vote accordingly

orthocresol

okay, that's confusing

I'm probably wrong then

Gaurang Tandon

@AvnishKabaj I know that well, and I didn't intend to ask this as an excuse to start bumping dozens of posts again. The point here is that there are users who don't wish to look at bumped old content, let alone peer review the edits. So, the Newest Questions page serves them well.

@orthocresol your monthly salary will be deducted. Reason: mod passing wrong information to users. :P

Avnish Kabaj

@GaurangTandon There is difference between old content being bumped up after editing and after answering

They don't want to see old answered questions

Gaurang Tandon

1:41 AM

Oh, you're very right

Perhaps, if on mobile, it could show "modified by xyz" and "answered by xyz" clearly, the same way it does on desktop, that could be some help

Avnish Kabaj

Gaurang Tandon

2:36 AM

@JavaScriptCoder our chess game ended and I've no clue why :/

2 hours later…

Gaurang Tandon

4:18 AM

chemistry.stackexchange.com/q/95619/5026 @AvnishKabaj this question went from a negative score to a humble +3 score. High five for the edits! :D

Avnish Kabaj

@GaurangTandon I just scanned it

You're the one who OCR'ed and molded it

Gaurang Tandon

collaborative effort :)

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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

7:50 AM

@orthocresol you're definitely wrong, as usual

Gaurang Tandon

8:17 AM

@Martin-マーチン I really wish to know why you used to use \mathcal in your earlier posts (especially to format the ideal gas constant $\mathcal{R}$). There was never a mention of this on meta either :/

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Gaurang Tandon

11:00 AM

Q: How does concentration affect reaction rate?

I recently underwent an experiment involving changing the concentration of hydrogen peroxide using potassium iodide as a catalyst and calculated the reaction rates. I cannot seem to find any patterns/trends with the results. Is it due to random errors or is there something I am missing. And what ...

experimental-chemistry

"I recently underwent an experiment..." oh my god xD

Anonymous

11:18 AM

iExperimentWithMyself

Gaurang Tandon

haha

ok i figured out an interesting way: now whenever I come across an old question that does need an edit, however, if I am already out of my edit quota for that day, I just pin that tab. So, that when the next day I open the browser, I can edit it first

will have to see how this workflow will work out

Avnish Kabaj

I say it won't

You love editing

Rationing ain't gonna do nothing

Gaurang Tandon

no i won't edit; i'll just pin the tab

(on desktop, right click -> pin tab; on chrome)

Avnish Kabaj

11:36 AM

Couples who get married don't tie the knot thinking that they want to get divorced by the next two years. They do so because they want to spend the rest of their lives together but then they get divorced

Gladwell, Malcolm; Blink

Gaurang Tandon

o.O why's this msg in this room? what's the context?

Avnish Kabaj

You don't start something thinking that it's going to fail

Gaurang Tandon

ofc

Avnish Kabaj

But then you fail

Gaurang Tandon

uh don't demotivate me on day 1

give me a sitrep on day 7

Avnish Kabaj

11:41 AM

; )

Gaurang Tandon

result of studying chem since morning: i run out of daily votes by the evening

Avnish Kabaj

I need 22 rep to become a closevoter

Summoning serial voters

Gaurang Tandon

you should get a sockpuppet for yourself

i have one, it's fun to assume multiple identities

Avnish Kabaj

Don't think k we'll have any issues since the police is sold

Gaurang Tandon

yah, go on ahead with it

Avnish Kabaj

11:45 AM

@GaurangTandon 😲😲😲😲😲😲

Gaurang Tandon

@AvnishKabaj :P

Gaurang Tandon

12:00 PM

nvm, i misread, they were talking about quick post deletions carry on

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starunique2016

1:19 PM

how can we make piciric acid from benzene

in ncert there is given that by inroducing two so3h grouos

but what do we there....we are making it even more deacticated

Anonymous

I don't know the answer, but did you mean 'from phenol'? @starunique2016

Anonymous

1:37 PM

Q: Preparation of picric acid

My textbook says "Nowadays picric acid is prepared by treating phenol first with concentrated sulfuric acid which converts it to phenol-2,4-disulfuric acid and then with concentrated nitric acid to get 2,4,6-trinitrophenol" My question: Why is this a better method than simply treating phenol wit...

organic-chemistry reaction-mechanism

Avnish Kabaj

Make phenol by diazotization

starunique2016

yes or by giving it cl2,feck3,naoh and then inroducing it to a acid

fecl3

sorrry

Anonymous

(Note: I don't know anything. I just googled it and got it. I just tried to help. I don't know anything. I really don't know.)

starunique2016

ok ok

avinish kabaj does this rxn undergo benzyne intermediate?

Anonymous

Side question: @AvnishKabaj How much of organic have you learnt? You know much. More than what a student for JEE is expected to know at this point of year. I think.

Avnish Kabaj

2:00 PM

@DivyankaChaudhari Just something here and there

I don't like studying

But I like organic-chemistry

Anonymous

Like when you see a thing, you're like "I should know this. Let's learn"

Avnish Kabaj

Nah more like I suck at math and organic seems interesting so let's not study math and fail at math but know a lot of useless stuff about orgo

Anonymous

2:28 PM

And then I came across this:

Anonymous

Avnish Kabaj

2:54 PM

Nice

Avnish Kabaj

3:37 PM

You will get help by posting a proper question along with your proper attempt presented and not by adding tens of ps after helpppp. — Abcd 6 mins ago

@Abcd There is no need to bash new users

Anonymous

Does reputation decrease by 1 everytime one downvotes?

Abcd

@AvnishKabaj it was very irritating

Avnish Kabaj

I agree

Totally

@DivyankaChaudhari poor Divyanka realizing that just now

Anonymous

Yeah, I know

Anonymous

I'm new

Anonymous

3:39 PM

Avnish Kabaj

That's only for downvoting answers

Anonymous

I never noticed it. So, I downvoted and un-downvoted an answer several times to see that.

Avnish Kabaj

Questions don't cost anything

Anonymous

You answered my question. Thanks!

Anonymous

I mean, I meant to ask if the same was for questions, which I never noticed.

Avnish Kabaj

3:42 PM

Hakuna matata

Gaurang Tandon

3:53 PM

@Abcd forget new users, you really don't need to waste your time attempting to talk to these imperative, help-me, textbook questions. These usually get mod-closed within a day, and get auto-deleted within ten days.

Downvote, get them off the front page, and move on

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Abcd

6:33 PM

Deleted my question.

@orthocresol Please let me know why hydrogen bond isnt possible there

orthocresol

7:04 PM

@Abcd Well... it's what I said in my comment, really. Try building a molecular model, for example, and "stretching" the N-H so that it can meet the other nitrogen...

You'll find that it's going to be pretty tough, if it's possible at all.

And even if you can, that N–H···N bond angle is going to be something like 90°, when ideally you want it to be 180°.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

7:35 PM

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Q: Why did I get negative vote?

I am really curious , what did I do wrong ? This is not a hate topic I just want to learn so that next time I won't get . What can be the reason ? the link :Is that backtracking?