The Periodic Table

2:47 AM

@NicolauSakerNeto do you know how exactly the "refiner" badge is awarded?

I've been editing posts left and right (maybe like 15) and it only counts 7?

Oh i just read about it

nevermind!

Q: What should be done with "Is my calculation correct ?"-type questions?

3:51 AM

@ChemExchange We kind of agreed to leave them as they are and have them around for similar questions as a close reason. See the following discussion:

I see many questions where the OP just asks whether his or her calculation is correct . These type of questions will most likely not be helpful to the majority . The questions pertain to a specific numerical calculation or to a specific application of a formula which the OP thinks might be wrong ...

discussion

@ringo As proud and currently lonely owner I can say, that it is quite a long way there...

I assume getting illuminator is almost impossible...

4:14 AM

It really seems so doesn't it

@ringo ooooooooooo!

It doesn't mean I wont try though!

Well, just be prepared to have a waiting ;)

@Martin-マーチンンンンンンンンンンンンンンンンンン

lol...

you put the emphasis on the n

4:16 AM

just drawing parallels!

500 edits though! that would take like a whole day I think! and would be 10 full pages of questions to be edited

well it can't huh, 12 hours or less

マチィィィィィィィィィィィィィィン That's how they yell at me here ;)

@ringo I guess you misunderstood

not again!

You have to answer a question, and also edit the original post

?!?!?!?!

and there must not be more then 12 hours between

4:18 AM

oh!!!!!

hang on, let'shave an example

that makes it so much easier

Q: Given the concentration and density of a sample, calculate moles of bleach?

you just edited this question

Given the concentration of bleach ($6\%\,\mathrm{m/m}$), density of bleach ($1.07\,\mathrm{g\,mL^{-1}}$), and molar mass of bleach ($74.44\,\mathrm{g\,mol^{-1}}$) how many moles of bleach are in a $4.0\,\mathrm{mL}$ sample? I don't understand where the concentration factors in, but the problem sa...

solutions stoichiometry concentration

I've done that before! why just last night I believe it was

if you answer it within the nest 11 hours and get a positive score, then that counts one towards the badge

Yeah, the editing part is not the hard part... having 500 answers is rough to begin with...

But you can get the copy edit badge quite easy

@ringo I just had a look at your profile... seems you are a rising star ;)

Congratulations!

Enthusiast ;)

4:37 AM

I am very enthusiastic about this site

I enjoy it very much!

Well, that's brilliant !

I feel that I'm among great minds here

Haha, I take that as a compliment

for all of us

representative

4:53 AM

You can take it as a personal one too!

I definitely look up to you

I posted a rather beautiful dimensional analysis solution to that bleach problem. Let's just hope someone notices before my 12 hours are up

don't worry about it...

okay okay

What is your area of expertise?

computational chemistry

mo theory and related stuff, that's why i post a lot of questions with orbitals an schemes...

orbitals are magic I think

nope, they are science

4:59 AM

hybridisation is magic

;)

I've heard that hybridization does not completely explain everything so chemists are looking for some other way to explain oribital stuff

does that have any basis?

A lot of people learn and teach hybridisation as a fact

they use it to explain geometries and reactivities

which is absolutely wrong

hybridisation is a function of geometry

So you mean that it occurs because of the geometry of orbitals?

i think i'll be off to bed now I'm quite tired

see you @Martin-マーチン

5:15 AM

Yeah see you, sleep tight @ringo!

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6:55 AM

did a somersault today

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Q: Were there alternative names for electron orbitals?

8:31 AM

Electrons orbits are referred to as s, p, d, and f, then alphabetically. These stand for sharp, principal, diffuse and fundamental respectively (or maybe the German translations). Was any other naming convention ever used to describe them in the beginning of the 20th century? The question dates ...

chemistry notation atomic-theory

8:46 AM

@Freddy hello

@ADG Hola

@Freddy Would you mind helping me with few chemistry doubts?

I will try my best solving them! :-)

@Freddy Ok do you think pure R-2-butanol when reacted with PCl3 will finally react with Ch3MgCl?

Can i first ask you a question, What does R stand there for?

8:52 AM

@Freddy optical rotation.

R and S

I think you have finish your 12th grade!

@ADG

@Freddy this 24th I'll.

May

@ADG I will finish it next year, so most probably I will learn that(R and S) this year!

@Freddy can't say, because I don't know if we have the same course in 12th.

My course is equivalent to NCERT but I am in Gujarat board @ADG

8:58 AM

@Freddy bye.

bye

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ManishEarth

4:26 PM

+1 @Martin-マーチン for all those flags

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7:52 PM

WE GRADUATED!!!!.... visually!!!!!!!1 ....awesome!!

Jin

@santiago yay! congrats!

direct all compliments/complaints to @KurtisBeavers. he worked hard on it

@KurtisBeavers tis an epic of awesomeness that be the Chem.SE site! Great work!

Haha nice, as soon as I saw Kurtis in here I had a feeling it was coming

Thanks for your effort! It looks great

Well, it seems a side effect of graduating is that now we have very few users with mod tools, hopefully that won't be a problem while new moderators are sorted out

Kurtis Beavers

Thanks. Congratulations to the community.

8:17 PM

hey @NicolauSakerNeto, can I ask you check something?

Q: Site graduated! New design launched

Okay, what can I help you with?

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@NicolauSakerNeto my answer here chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/31338/… - have a missed the point?

Looks perfectly fine to me

phew

8:21 PM

This sure looks like class of stable molecules!

indeed - I have never heard of them before

I thought hydrazine was effectively where these molecules stopped

All that nitrogen just wants to be free

instead the nitrogen is imprisoned in an azane prison

Reminds me of these pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/01/09/…