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user116211

06:12

Q: How to calculate the amount of citric acid to neutralise the pH within wastewater?

We have an effluent tank, with a consent to discharge at between 5.5 - 11 pH, the tank holds 100000 liters of dirty water. When the pH reaches 10.5 we add citric acid to bring the pH down. How many liters of citric acid with a pH of 2.2 should we add to the system to bring the pH down to around ...

user116211

Hey, @Mart don't you think this is HW?

user116211

09:39

!!greet/@Ramanewbie

user116211

Brian

12:22

@MAFIA36790 It's pretty clearly someone in a production environment. They probably don't have a lot of spare time to research the chemistry in detail, and aren't trying to learn chem, either. It's a practical problem they're facing, and they're coming to us as a repository of expertise. I would leave open & answer, as was done.

skill patrol

12:40

What do you think of Alberty's physical chemistry textbook?

Brian

No experience with it. They used Laidler in my one college course on it.

skill patrol

Thanks

Brian

Might get some more responses as more people wander in, though.

skill patrol

Yup.

user116211

13:00

@Brian oh.

user116211

Where is @IͶΔ today?

user116211

I'm badly missing him :/

IͶΔ

13:18

@MAFIA36790 School

Norouz fun is over.

user116211

13:42

@IͶΔ: o/

IͶΔ

user116211

@IͶΔ Poor child ;)

IͶΔ

Poor chat

It won't benefit from my coolness as much as it used to.

ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ

user116211

!!gun

IͶΔ

(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

user116211

13:46

@IͶΔ BTW, how many hours do you have to spend in school?

IͶΔ

Some 9 hours.

user116211

@IͶΔ WTF!

user116211

Are you working in some day-labour factory?

IͶΔ

In total.

I'm counting commuting and breaks and stuff.

user116211

Our school ran for 5hrs including all those stuffs and recess....

IͶΔ

13:48

I wish it was a day-labor factory.

user116211

Is it compulsory to remain present every day?

IͶΔ

It's 5 days a week.

user116211

@IͶΔ Ha! I didn't know that! Thanks!! Our school remained open for 7 days a week!!

IͶΔ

@MAFIA36790 That's even more horrible than our principal.

user116211

@IͶΔ ;P

user116211

14:02

5 days were ordinary days..... Sat was half day....

user116211

And on Sun, there were special classes....

user116211

Sounds good?

user116211

Well, maybe....

user116211

I don't know much about that....

user116211

Last year, I went to school for just 2 weeks.....

IͶΔ

14:06

Still, going to school all week is horrid

JUST horrid

OK that's even more horrid

user116211

Sun wasn't compulsory, though....

user116211

Well, may be horrid....

user116211

I don't know :0

IͶΔ

Depends though.

Some people enjoy school.

Do you?

user116211

@IͶΔ ................

user116211

14:08

I did enjoy my school days....

user116211

It'd be an integral part of my memories throughout my life....

IͶΔ

@MAFIA36790 I don't know dot language.

user116211

no matter what quality of education it conferred.

user116211

@IͶΔ it's like i'm thinking

IͶΔ

Rather bizarre way of indicating so

@MAFIA36790 Well, back when I was 10, school was nice.

user116211

14:17

@IͶΔ Primary education is always good.

IͶΔ

Now, it just feels like I'm sitting beside smart people and I'm (we're all) treated like sheep.

Seriously, GET OUT OF MY LAWN OXIDATION STATES.

user116211

Now, my studies solely hinges on some good amount of books and Stack Exchange.

user116211

School never played a role in my studies.

user116211

Why me? Not anyone of our batch.

Simon-Nail-It

Guys, do any metal chlorides decompose?

IͶΔ

14:23

@Simon-Nail-It Like $\ce{Cu2Cl6^2-}$?

Simon-Nail-It

thanks

IͶΔ

What for?

user116211

@IͶΔ For you being the smartest sheep?

Simon-Nail-It

For some school project and prepartion for quiz

IͶΔ

Oh, that's the best thing I've heard someone on the internet tell me.

Simon-Nail-It

14:26

Lol

user116211

Are the bots in exile?

IͶΔ

They're planning a conspiracy thingy.

user116211

@IͶΔ they are controlled by Skynet.

user116211

@IͶΔ Remember that Meta Physics Question?

IͶΔ

user116211

14:33

A: Ultimately, what will the Physics Stack Exchange Become? Are there long term goals?

Humans will cease to exist within a few generations, they'll be replaced by machines. It's likely that our civilization will give rise to one superintelligence, all knowledge acquired by us will be absorbed by it. Digital records are then more useful than paper records, so the files stored on ser...

user116211

15:30

!!greet/@Chemobot

Chemobot

Welcome to The Periodic Table @Chemobot! Here are our chat guidelines and it's recommended that you read them. If you want to turn Mathjax on, make a bookmark of the link in this answer. Happy chatting!

user116211

@Hippalectryon: o/

Hippalectryon

IͶΔ

OMG . . . THE WORLD IS CLOSE TO AN END

I JUST SAW A POST WITH CORRECT PUNCTUATION FROM A NEW USER ON THE MAIN SITE

user116211

@IͶΔ Your life is success.

user116211

15:43

You attained NIRVANA.

user116211

15:59

Does anyone know about Jim Clark who runs Chemguide?

user116211

I'm seeing there is no wiki article on him.....

Hippalectryon

Nope, I always use www2.chemistry.msu.edu/faculty/reusch/virttxtjml/intro1.htm when possible

user116211

16:15

@Hippalectryon WoW! worthy to be bookmarked.

Hippalectryon

@MAFIA36790 I'm nt an expert or anything, but their organochem pages are the best I've seen so far on the internet

CowperKettle

16:28

It's so interesting that only ethanol is okay for consumption. Methanol is toxic, as is ethylene glycol.

user116211

!!greet/@pentavalentcarbon

Chemobot

Welcome to The Periodic Table @pentavalentcarbon! Here are our chat guidelines and it's recommended that you read them. If you want to turn Mathjax on, make a bookmark of the link in this answer. Happy chatting!

Brian

17:00

@CowperKettle Biochemistry is quite carefully tuned, for sure.

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IͶΔ

18:11

@Skill ?

skill patrol

mistake

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CowperKettle

20:30

Copper glycerate. (0:

The reaction is described as an identification reaction for glycerol in Russian textbooks. I haven't found a description of it on English language sites.

It's interesting what is considered an identification reaction for polyatomic alcohols in the West.

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skill patrol

23:40

!!img/copper glycerate

Chemobot