The Periodic Table

12:38 AM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ you go figure

I’m just done with running a mile in 6 minutes

I have never seen a single racist remark on SE

1:16 AM

@AvnishKabaj i'll have to agree. as much as the condescending thing is popular, the racist thing certainly doesn't seem to

at least I think I should've spent more time on SO but nvm

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guys guys please don't close this question as homework

Q: Ammonia to ammonium

Why does ammonia accept a hydrogen to form ammonium when its octet is already full as $\ce{NH3}$ and it should be, seemingly, stable as $\ce{NH3}$?

acid-base

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finally some new users took a stab at those snarky comments - nice read - https://web.archive.org/web/20180427011949/https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/95946/for-a-given-period-why-is-the-boiling-point-of-the-halogen-greater-than-that-of

The coincidence with that SO blog post about being nice is strong

Do people feel good about being jackasses in comments? A lot of that on the chemistry site here. — oldchemist 1 hour ago

If a 71 rep user says that, i think it's time for some self-reflection

(hopefully oldchemist's comment wasn't directed at Matthew, doesn't seem to be)

Q: Does the mixture of a ligand exchange reaction contain all the complexes obtained in the part reactions?

1:54 AM

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please use your good vote and reopen this

A ligand exchange reaction involves many part reactions. So, does the mixture contain all the complexes from those part reactions? Quoting an example from ChemGuide: This can be written as an equilibrium reaction to show the overall effect: $$\ce{[Cu(H2O)6]^2+ + 4NH3 <=> [Cu(NH3)4(H2O)2...

coordination-compounds

2:26 AM

@GaurangTandon Ivan Neretin

@GaurangTandon Anyway it's been answered in the comments

2:42 AM

@AvnishKabaj that's not how SE is supposed to work; answers belong to the answer box

3:38 AM

@GaurangTandon In acetic acid and all

Why do K+ and Na+ displace hydrogen and form the ion pair

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Frank

6:01 AM

Just wondering, why was this question put on hold? It seems perfectly legitimate to me. chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/95899/ammonia-to-ammonium

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M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

7:10 AM

@Frank because folks didn't like it, I guess

We do have a problem of closing stuff we don't like

Not that common though

Also, welcome to chat!

@JavaScriptCoder that's really hard to do on the bottom of the ocean

You deserve a gold badge

"Superfeet" or "777 unstoppable" or somesuch

Ha, "testosterone-driven"

@GaurangTandon that's not what I call a stab

It's just as jackassy as the comment it refers to -- it's meant to be an anti-community "this is too hopeless to address appropriately" remark

Abcd

@GaurangTandon it was so unfair to close it.

Homework close reason is being misused now.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Abcd No shit Sherlock :p

@GaurangTandon you doing that line thing is multiline is annoying

Just do it like this

5 hours later…

12:15 PM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ i was tying to separate the context of my previous msg from the next one :/

@Frank hey Frank, don't worry. it's been nominated for reopening by two votes. once it gets five, it'll be reopened. thanks!

i agree the close is unjustified

@AvnishKabaj good question; i don't have the answer atm

they somehow just do :/

Q: Balancing the oxidation of C3H8O3 by permanganate anion

12:30 PM

uh, I hate it when users answer homework stuff

-1

I have done an experiment and this is what reaction I got but I need help balancing the reaction$$\ce{MnO4^- + C3H8O3 + H+ -> MnO2 + CO2 + H2O }$$

redox stoichiometry

concentration halides organic-chemistry

12:44 PM

@permeakra True, that's why this is not an answer, but a mere comment. — Ivan Neretin 2 hours ago

could some 10k+ member please tell him that that's not what the comment boxes are for?

this is probably the second or third time I'm reading the exact same excuse

the "comment box" is very actively mistaken to be a "commentary on the question", rather than its actual purpose, "a suggestion box" instead

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this guy took nearly half an year to ask his second question :-O

Radek Martinez, Waterloo, ON, Canada

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Zhe

1:13 PM

@GaurangTandon I still have not asked a second question.

Q: What to do with (large) imaginary frequencies for constrained minimum structures?

@Zhe oh :P

Bounty Hunter

1:58 PM

I am performing DFT calculations using ORCA 4.0.1 on an enzyme active site model. The model contains 89 atoms including the substrate (see Animation 1), five of which are fixed in space (the spherical atoms in Animation 1). I am using dispersion-corrected B3LYP with 6-31g(d,p) basis set, with the...

quantum-chemistry computational-chemistry density-functional-theory

2:24 PM

@GaurangTandon ok

Not even closely related. — schrodinger_16 1 hour ago

Always edgy

2:45 PM

@AvnishKabaj well the close votes probably annoyed him the last time so...anyway, let it be like that, I didn't take offence

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ you're probably right, though I think it was about time this was addressed

Anyway, whichever mod deleted that comment of Ivan, should've deleted the thread below it as well, and added an explanation for that. Those comments lying out there now make no sense. Fwiw, I'm glad that question didn't make it to the HNQ. Phew!

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4:12 PM

@AvnishKabaj that said, I wonder if my comment is really out of place? Why aren't both the questions related?

5:06 PM

@Zhe your q on le chat was good though

Zhe

@JavaScriptCoder That's why I asked it. The embarrassing part was that I really just couldn't remember the answer, and I even gave it as a question on a homework assignment once.

But you can't search for that on the internet because there are so many BS answers about heat being a reactant or such

5:22 PM

the internet sucks. Chem.SE is good.

Zhe

well for chem

And don't even get me started on the wikipedia page on kinetic isotope effects