The Periodic Table

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Mockingbird

00:59

@DSVA Wow! But I am more interested about the mechanism of thee interaction between smelly molecules and nervous system?

airhuff

01:40

@Mockingbird Check out olfaction and chemesthesis in Wikipedia for some background. The former in particular has lots of references (also a link to electronic noses for fun ;)

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orthocresol

03:23

@M.A.R. sorry wasn't very specific. Yeah, yes to both

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M.A.R.

04:54

@You is your last name "over there"?

@orthocresol you are forgiven

orthocresol

05:31

@M.A.R. actually, no to both

I always thought that skip showed up in the stats, but i went to check and it doesn't.

I suppose it's because skipping doesn't count as a review, so it doesn't go into the review stats.

The Raiders of Las Vegas

05:52

!!tea

Chemobot

The Raiders of Las Vegas

!!coffee

Chemobot

The Raiders of Las Vegas

:-/

!!beer

Chemobot

The Raiders of Las Vegas

05:53

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M.A.R.

16:15

@orthocresol huh, then I can conceal the fact that I don't skip reviews in the mod election and you can do nothing about it \o/

Bounty Hunter

Q: What is the physical basis for Hund's first rule?

According to Hund's first rule, a set of degenerate orbitals are singly occupied first, before the second slot in any of the orbitals are populated. This is quite intuitive because electron-electron repulsions would make an atom more unstable if the electrons start filling two at a time in a sing...

M.A.R.

16:37

Q: Dipole Moment and Greenhouse effect

How can dipole moment explain the greenhouse behavior of a gas? Also, for instance, if we take carbon dioxide, how can we explain it's greenhouse behavior? Is London Force a factor in deciding its extent of the showing the greenhouse effect? And why methane is a greenhouse gas? Are there other...