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Q: Strong base, strong acid titration problem

Here is a problem: Titrate 1 M sulfuric acid with 50 ml of 1 M sodium hydroxide solution. What volume of sulfuric acid will be required for neutralization. This is a simple problem. My reasoning is since both reactants are strong we will have 0.05 L $\ce{OH-}$ ions and for neutralization ...

Gowtham

02:20

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Stack Exchange

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Q: Dimensional Analysis in Chemistry

I was once told on this site that it was incorrect form to use units that specify the chemical being referred to in dimensional analysis. For example: $$150.~\mathrm{g}~~\ce{KNO3} \cdot \frac{1~\mathrm{mol}~~\ce{KNO3}}{101.103~\mathrm{g}~~\ce{KNO3}} \cdot{} \frac{1~\mathrm{mol}~~\ce{C7H4O}}{6~\...

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MARamezani

05:35

Hullo everyone!

Gowtham

hi

MARamezani

@santago's gone crazy!

I reviewed like 10 suggested tag wikis yesterday and today.

santiago

05:50

is that a bad thing?

MARamezani

Nah, of course not!

santiago

cool!

MARamezani

Crazy not as in crazy crazy, but as in I'm-gonna-earn-another-reviewer crazy.

santiago

ahhh

MARamezani

08:58

Oooh!

I just found an article written by Fred.

ChemExchange

@ManishEarth Then I feel mods should check out the context. How else would one decide whether a comment is obsolete or not.

ManishEarth

@ChemExchange As in we do check the context, but not all the comments

MARamezani

Hullo guys!

ManishEarth

I bet the deleting moderator saw other comments that made it obsolete and deleted it. Sometimes you have a lot of flags and just breeze through them, not looking for other issues to clean up.

It's comment. We don't give comments much priority, nor do we give their deletion much priority

MARamezani

@ChemExchange For the sake of anything you worship, let. it. go!!!

ManishEarth

09:07

If some comments don't get deleted, meh. You're getting too worked up about nothing here.

MARamezani

^That. ^

ChemExchange

@ManishEarth That might not be the case here.

MARamezani

Why not?

ManishEarth

@ChemExchange so?

let it go

If you're worrying about fairness in comment deletion, let it go.

ChemExchange

@MARamezani Since other comments too were obsolete but were not deleted.

ManishEarth

09:09

Comment deletion is very low priority and none of the mods worry about fairness there

ChemExchange

@ManishEarth I felt a strong bias out there. So I am asking about it.

MARamezani

@ChemExchange So?

Nothing real.

ChemExchange

That is why I said:

ManishEarth

@ChemExchange Even if the deleting moderator had noticed all the comments and just deleted yours, it wouldn't be a biased situation.

ChemExchange

3 mins ago, by ChemExchange

@ManishEarth That might not be the case here.

ManishEarth

09:11

Because these are very low priority

ChemExchange

as a response to

ManishEarth

28 secs ago, by ManishEarth

@ChemExchange Even if the deleting moderator had noticed all the comments and just deleted yours, it wouldn't be a biased situation.

ChemExchange

4 mins ago, by ManishEarth

I bet the deleting moderator saw other comments that made it obsolete and deleted it. Sometimes you have a lot of flags and just breeze through them, not looking for other issues to clean up.

ManishEarth

SE doesn't care about the longevity of comments.

If some comments are deleted where more should have been, that's no big deal

Bias comes into play when there's something actually important being discussed

MARamezani

@ManishEarth A-ha!

ChemExchange

09:13

@ManishEarth Who told the mods are biased?

ManishEarth

@ChemExchange you're the one talking of bias

ChemExchange

But I never said the mods were biased.

MARamezani

@ManishEarth I think he's saying someone who flagged him was biased.

ManishEarth

Then who?

Oh

Bah

ChemExchange

The person who flagged was.

ManishEarth

09:14

You don't know when it was flagged

MARamezani

But then I said being flagged as obsolete isn't a bad thing.

ManishEarth

it could have been flagged before

Yes, that^

Also, sometimes a single comment flag can be used to mean "please look at the whole thread" though we appreciate it better when a custom flag is used

(precisely because of such situations)

MARamezani

@ManishEarth People flag those when they don't think about getting a deputy.

Or Marshal.

ChemExchange

Flagged before what?

MARamezani

@ChemExchange It was maybe flagged when you didn't even know it.

Even, there's a possibility that it wasn't flagged.

@Manish can look at the flags I think.

ChemExchange

09:19

@MARamezani I asked him whether it was flagged or not.

MARamezani

Maybe Jonsca took a visit and thought two comments questioning the question being homework are noise.

ManishEarth

@ChemExchange Flagged before the other comments were seen

MARamezani

So he randomly deleted one of them.

@ManishEarth Jonsca is a he, right?

ChemExchange

@ManishEarth I commented. He didn't respond. MARamezani commented. My comment was still there. I left. I came back to see that my comment was deleted.

ManishEarth

@MARamezani yes

@ChemExchange hm

MARamezani

09:21

Phew

@ChemExchange A question: Has this bias of some user against you (if exists) harmed you in some way?

Not yet, huh?

If it hasn't, then insisting on the discussion is kinda ya know...Doesn't work.

Because we're gonna keep saying that the whole thing isn't a big deal.

When there was some serious trouble, then you can come here and we can discuss all you want.

ChemExchange

@ManishEarth You there?

ManishEarth

@ChemExchange okay, you are correct, it was flagged when other comments were there

But with a closer look at the comments, yours was pretty useless after that comment was deleted, but @MARamezani's comment prevented others from voting to close as HW again

MARamezani

Still, it's no big deal. It's not like you're gonna have a flagged comment. "Ooooh, let's panic. My reputation has vanished in the face of mods because I had a comment flagged..." This statement isn't true.

@ManishEarth I'm a savior.

ChemExchange

Why was it useless?

MARamezani

@ChemExchange Because both the comments were saying the same thing.

ManishEarth

09:27

@ChemExchange santiago had removed his comment. Your comment was questioning a nonexistant comment without making any points of its own

MAR's comment did make an actual point

explaining why it isn't HW

MARamezani

Mine also said that the OP has dug deeper.

ManishEarth

It was worth keeping around

for a bit

MARamezani

@ManishEarth It always is.

ChemExchange

Btw the reason for my comment was:

22 hours ago, by ChemExchange

I intended to know what was the reason since I didn't know about those type of cases.

ManishEarth

(deleted now)

@ChemExchange sure

it was obsolete later

obsolete comments aren't a bad reflection on you

you really should just drop this

MARamezani

09:29

@ChemExchange You didn't ask me? You didn't ask me?

ChemExchange

@ManishEarth So it was flagged after santiago deleted his comment?

ManishEarth

@ChemExchange i think?

ChemExchange

Can you confirm that, if its possible?

ManishEarth

yes, confirmed

But again, you're nitpicking far too deeply into this. It's like asking why some other person got two grains of rice more than you did

Nobody cares to that depth

MARamezani

@ManishEarth What? WHO?

Tell me tell me tell me!

ChemExchange

09:31

@ManishEarth Atleast I now know that there was little or no bias in it.

Thanks

ManishEarth

Again, even if there was bias, we don't care

MARamezani

@ChemExchange Usually, unless you don't make enemies yourself, no one bothers being so.

ChemExchange

Why would you care? When it was related to me. @ManishEarth

MARamezani

@ChemExchange He doesn't mean that.

He's a mod.

ManishEarth

@ChemExchange No, as in nobody would care even if it was related to them

Also that

And yeah, as a mod I do care about the others :P

MARamezani

09:33

It's his job to attend these kind of internet enemy thingies, if they exist.

santiago

not this again

MARamezani

@ManishEarth Hiding

@santiago Welcome back...I'm wondering if you were taking a walk.

ManishEarth

@MARamezani pew pew pew

MARamezani

I was riding my bike.

ChemExchange

@ManishEarth I can't speak about others.

MARamezani

09:34

@ManishEarth Ducks

santiago

@MARamezani sleeping mainly today - new pain meds

ManishEarth

@ChemExchange I was basically saying you shouldn't either

MARamezani

@santiago So now you feel like a zombie huh?

ChemExchange

@santiago When was it sorted, to start it again? :)

ManishEarth

It's a comment. Consider it ephemeral

If it goes, it goes. Don't look deeper into it

If there are consistent patterns of targeting of comment flags, we will look into it

santiago

09:36

comments = irrelevant

ChemExchange

@santiago Yes. Thats your opinion on this specific issue and you have voiced it before. Thanks.

@ManishEarth Alright. Thanks for your help.

santiago

there is no issue here - I was not targetting you, I was not 'biased' towards you in any way

MARamezani

@ChemExchange Usually, as this is internet, no one takes things dead serious, especially if their name starts with an M, followed by AR.

@santiago He didn't mean you were...He thought there was something serious about this...Which isn't...Case closed.

santiago

I responded to @MARamezani only because his comment was the first I saw and the only one I paid attention too

MARamezani

Sheesh.

ChemExchange

09:39

@santiago Thats the reason why I starred your response.

MARamezani

Get it over with.

@ChemExchange It was interesting, or intersetting in some way.

Good for the transcript.

ChemExchange

@santiago Yes. You explained that in the chat message which, if I am not wrong, is starred on the right hand side.

santiago

half a dozen of my comments have gone (most likley for @MARamezani building his nest).... I am not worried whatsoever

MARamezani

@santiago I use Martin's comments. His are waterproof.

ChemExchange

@santiago The case is closed.

MARamezani

09:41

Yours corrode too fast.

santiago

@MARamezani true that

@ChemExchange fantastic! Now lets all make bad jokes

ChemExchange

@santiago On another topic, wasn't your comment on chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/29598/… rude? Though frustration would lead most of us on that path :)

@santiago Bad chem jokes?

MARamezani

@ChemExchange -6 says it wasn't.

ChemExchange

Na

santiago

@ChemExchange to be honest, I do not remember

ChemExchange

09:45

Forget it then. And concentrate on my poor joke.

1 min ago, by ChemExchange

@santiago Bad chem jokes?

1 min ago, by ChemExchange

Na

santiago

sodium and chlorine went into a bar and got into a fight, they were charged with assault

ChemExchange

hahhahaha

Is this original? @santiago

santiago

Na

ChemExchange

lol.....haha.

Timing man!!

santiago

often I get no reaction to the joke, or people just dissolve into laughter

MARamezani

09:48

> What is the chemical formula for a banana? BaNa2

I'm having a hard time laughing.

I'm too awesome to laugh at chem jokes.

santiago

I was once called Copper Telluride, I blushed

MARamezani

[Emoticon for bragging]

@santiago Really Copper Telluride?

ChemExchange

@santiago Didn't get this one.

santiago

chemical symbols CuTe

ChemExchange

I don't know any properties of that compound

MARamezani

09:50

@ChemExchange You think jokes dig that deep?

ChemExchange

lol....good one. @santiago

santiago

what do the chemical symbols spell?

MARamezani

> What did one charged atom say to the other? I've got my ion you.

Freddy

Don't trust atoms, they make up everything.

santiago

LOL

Why was the proton jealous of the neutron?

MARamezani

09:52

Haha...This was a nice one:

> What is the name of agent 007's Eskimo cousin? Polar Bond.

ChemExchange

Are we all googling chem jokes -_-

MARamezani

@ChemExchange I already did.

Wait a sec

Freddy

not me

santiago

googling? NEVER!!!!! I am already chemically imbalanced

MARamezani

Are you expecting me to make them up?!!!!!!

ChemExchange

09:53

@Freddy I don't trust you.

MARamezani

@ChemExchange No one trusts that face.

ChemExchange

@MARamezani No, but I expect @santiago to make them up.

MARamezani

@ChemExchange His leg broke, not his brain.

Freddy

@ChemExchange I am googling it I am copying that from bookmark page

inorganicventures.com/fun-chemists

ChemExchange

@santiago Why?

santiago

09:54

@ChemExchange beause they both bought drinks and the bartender said to the neutron that there was no charge

MARamezani

@santiago Heh.

Jokes need to contain bars.

santiago

or columns

ChemExchange

lol

2

Freddy

that is from my link

ChemExchange

Yes

MARamezani

09:56

Hmm...Who just left?!

Freddy

I did not get it tough

santiago

there are ample opportunities to swear with the periodic table

MARamezani

Freddy

MARamezani

My pic is the real element of surprise.

santiago

09:58

what a load of carbon-radon-phosphorous

(removed)

ChemExchange

lol what was that @santiago

Freddy

MARamezani

Oh...The american version of the element of surprise:

santiago

of course, one could go.... fluorine uranium carbon potass.....

MARamezani

(Because Americans are very polite)

@santiago o.O

(removed)

santiago

10:00

@MARamezani symbols man! SYMBOLS

Freddy

hahahaha

MARamezani

@santiago That was exactly the reason of my O.Oing.

ChemExchange

I am flaggin that.

MARamezani

I went a bit deeper than you all did.

santiago

never completed it

MARamezani

10:01

@ChemExchange BTW what is your home country?

We all know where we come from.

I'll kick mute you if you don't tell me you nationality.

((removed))

ChemExchange

@santiago I am flagging since you did not complete it :p

santiago

it would be worse if I ended it with oxygen fluorine fluorine

one could say that I am taking the phosphorous iodine disulphide

ChemExchange

StackExchange @MARamezani

MARamezani

But I was expecting fluorine uranium carbon (removed)

Freddy

@ChemExchange Great place to live

santiago

10:04

lol

ChemExchange

Ttyl. Bye.

MARamezani

@ChemExchange Hmm...Let me test you.

@ChemExchange Nooo!

I wanted to test you!

Later anyways.

santiago

hmmm, if I say "phosphorous iodine disulphide oxygen difluoride to a chemist, would I get a slap to the face?

catch ya @ChemExchange

MARamezani

Slaps @santiago

santiago

Bwahahahaha

MARamezani

10:07

o.o

Slaps deserve evil laughs?

santiago

kinky..

lol

MARamezani

santiago

and no one expects the Spanish inquisition!

hmmm weird...

i think I have another question for you to downvote, @MARamezani

MARamezani

@santiago ?

santiago

just found out that "Helium is the only element that cannot be solidified by lowering the temperature at ordinary pressures"

I might ask about this

what you reckon @MARamezani?

MARamezani

10:21

Googling

@santiago I can't think of a reason. ASK IT! ASK IT! I NOW REALLY WANT TO DOWNVOTE AND FAVORITE THAT QUESTION. WAIT...WHY AM I SHOUTING?

2

santiago

LOL

what tags should I use?

posted!

@MARamezani!

MARamezani

10:52

Sorry, was eating lunch.

@santiago Downvoted.

santiago

lol

Gowtham

16:30

From what i have read from physics chat and in the internet, there is no concept of "reality " in quantum mechanics ,right ?

MARamezani

19:17

@Gowtham I think so.

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