The Periodic Table

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

2:17 PM

@LegionMammal978 IIRC not all retained names are preferred

They're just retained

What a low bar

@paracetamol is retained in this chat

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

3:11 PM

Ah man, the Mithoron question is gone

And I didn't even get to fix the punctuation marks

paracetamol

4:03 PM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Woot! \o/

@M.A.R. @Mith Maybe this might be of interest? biologos.org

(It's Christian-centric, but of course there are strong similarities between the Quran and the old testament, so that shouldn't be an impediment)

^ The central tenet is that the physical laws themselves is the work of God and the means through which God works + Everything in the Bible/Quran needn't be taken literally + Believe in evolution, not Evolutionism

Ooh! Guess the nationality of the next Bond villain? Russian ._. rt.com/uk/433691-new-bond-villain-russian

A comment from under the article:

> Let me guess - it's highly likely the plot will also include the threat of release of some military grade lethal nerve agent

paracetamol

4:41 PM

@Pio Hullo there, and welcome to The Periodic Table! o/

Piomicron

Hello!

paracetamol

Waves

So what brings thee here? ;-)

Piomicron

I saw a reply to something I said. Do you know what o/ means?

paracetamol

A waving hand O:)

o/

\o

\o/

^ Both hands

Piomicron

Ohhh

paracetamol

4:42 PM

Don't worry, I was just as confused when I saw it first O:)

Mithoron

5:52 PM

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Q: So your final answer to "What if I disagree with the closure of a question? How can I reopen it?" is... nothing?

I have read your page "What if I disagree with the closure of a question? How can I reopen it?" because I find the "put on hold" decision about the page "Can we predict that a atome/ion/molecule is carcinogenic" totally unfair. But the only conclusion I can get from your page is that a random us...

user

Who is clumsy here...

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

I'm clumsy and proud

Mithoron

:D

Zhe

@Mithoron I'm clumsy, but not clumsy enough to not flag it for immediate deletion.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Zhe Huh, just VTC as "belongs on meta"

Mithoron

@Zhe No bad idea, just not be clumsy with mod flagging ;)

Careful wording etc.

Zhe

5:58 PM

:)

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@Mithoron Nah, our mods are harmless

Mithoron

But for instanuking this dumb post one would need to be convincing

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

There's no need for deletion

It's a clumsily written reopen request

1,3-feeds

6:21 PM

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Q: So your final answer to "What if I disagree with the closure of a question? How can I reopen it?" is... nothing?

I have read your page "What if I disagree with the closure of a question? How can I reopen it?" because I find the "put on hold" decision about the page "Can we predict that a atome/ion/molecule is carcinogenic" totally unfair. But the only conclusion I can get from your page is that a random us...

discussion

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Actually there is a special channel, but dunno if not only mods can initiate it. — Mithoron 2 mins ago

@Mith which?

Mithoron

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Mods can send a message via discreet channel to a specific user

And IIRC user can respond

Zhe

@Mithoron Whoa, I didn't know that

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Yes but the user can respond, they can't send the first message

@Zhe well, how would suspended users communicate with mods?

Zhe

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Honestly, I've never bothered to consider this

Gaurang Tandon

6:32 PM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ and if the mod doesn't respond, the user can't send another msg either :O

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

It's conveniently called "mod message" and the user can respond once after the mod message

So it's not really a way for the users to send a message, but for mods

@Zhe @ortho please ban @Zhe for rule violations so we can laugh for a bit

Zhe

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Well, that will certainly remove any compulsions I have about answering questions and free up a lot of free time

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Oh

Zhe

:D

I'm not sure who'd be laughing harder

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@ortho please don't ban @Zhe for rule violations so he looks like a hurried chicken answering questions so we can laugh for a bit

Zhe

6:35 PM

dammit

Shouldn't have told you the truth

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Hurried chicken out of a swimming pool

Gaurang Tandon

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ why did it get deleted with a positively scoring accepted answer? Most questions of such type (targeting a specific user) that I've seen are generally edited to redact the user's name, and/or make it more generic, for example: "What can I do if I feel targeted by a specific user?". IIRC Pritt's answer would have fit well.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@GaurangTandon Probably blame ortho

Martin is too apathetic to have done that

Gaurang Tandon

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ !!\blame @orthocresol

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Loong is too busy naming the type of rant according to IUPAC rules

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Gaurang Tandon

6:38 PM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ actually the IUPAC forgot to make a rule for that, so he's advising them

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Manish and Jonsca are probably busy surfing 50 meter waves in Hawaii

@GaurangTandon I'm not a bot

ur a bot

Gaurang Tandon

u sure about that? i thought both of us IoT devices interacting through our AI powers

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

no ur bot

Gaurang Tandon

that grammar triggers me

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Did your head come off like a bullet?

Gaurang Tandon

6:42 PM

by the momentum conservation law, it should have. but it's attached to a spine, hence it couldn't

makes me wonder if I actually had a head in the first place

i'm a bot

oh I didn't

anyway, 0015hrs here, should catch some sleep

off I go

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

o/

Avnish Kabaj

@GaurangTandon you've gone soft

LegionMammal978

7:35 PM

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ That is indeed so, but acetylene is also preferred:

> The name acetylene is retained for the compound HC≡CH. It is the preferred IUPAC name, but substitution of any kind is not allowed; however, in general nomenclature, substitution is allowed, for example fluoroacetylene [fluoroethyne (PIN)], but not by alkyl groups or any other group that extends the carbon chain, nor by characteristic groups expressed by suffixes.

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

8:20 PM

Shrug

gateprep

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ

I have some doubt pls help me...

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Aaaand you're about to ask me something I don't know about . . .

gateprep

See I am sending u a link related to thermo which has been asked as a question on stackexchange

Btw @M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ did u participate in Chem olympiad

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Just post the link and anyone with any input can answer if they wish

@gateprep Yes, it was ages ago, I've forgotten a lot, and I'm trying to catch up this summer

gateprep

Did u win any round?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

8:23 PM

There's only a bare name of stereochemistry left in mind, for example

gateprep

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Q: Gibbs potential and phase transitions

I'm studying phase transitions on Callen's book Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics (chapter 9, section 9.1) but I had some problems while trying to understand the role of the presence of multiple minima in the Gibbs free energy. In the first part of the chapter, Callen makes ...

thermodynamics phase-transition

See this

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@gateprep IIRC the Indian olympiad has different stages and works differently, so I dunno if a number will help. But I was almost top 40

gateprep

top 40 in Iran?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Yep

gateprep

Great..

HAve u seen the link @Mithoron

Sorry@Mithoron

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ

Tell me something what are the depandant and indepandant variables here

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

8:28 PM

@gateprep Dude, that's like, more than two lines

@gateprep I don't remember much of thermo

But lemme read the question

gateprep

Why do we Plot Thermodynamic potential with volume Does pressure temperature remain constant in all cases....

Yes..

The answer is also there

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@gateprep IIRC you don't need to have every variable constant in order to plot against one of them

@gateprep The answer makes sense to me, but I don't know enough to actually engage in a conversation

So.

gateprep

Why?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Well hello, I said I've forgotten most of Olympiad material

gateprep

Firstly tell me something T,P,V,N are the variables now which is indepandant and which is depandant for a reaction

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

8:34 PM

And our chem Olympiad covers different topics than yours

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

9:30 PM

@gateprep whichever you prefer

Dangit dude, stop being so persistent

I don't know anything about thermodynamics, and I can't help you with your phase transitions

My phase can transition from moody to happy though

orthocresol

11:26 PM

Btw, the bountied questions always attract the same guy who copy pastes text and leaves a comment saying "since I have provided an answer, please give me the reputation".

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Their modus operandi is always the same and we'll nuke on sight, so you guys don't need to worry about checking where they plagiarise from, just mod-flag and it'll be dealt with

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