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Gaurang Tandon

00:44

@Martin-マーチン gotcha

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paracetamol

05:03

@Loong Hallo! o/

Abcd

What does o/ , \o mean? Everybody is using it these days

paracetamol

It means...

Drumroll

Abcd

[drum roll](urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Drum%20Roll)

paracetamol

Oct 13 '16 at 9:11, by Rubisco

@AaronAbraham that's a Martin waving a hand

Oct 13 '16 at 9:11, by Martin - マーチン

Abcd

@paracetamol Are you a student of chemistry?

paracetamol

05:09

Maybe, maybe not O:)

Abcd

paracetamol

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Avnish Kabaj

07:13

Oct 13 '16 at 9:16, by Aaron Abraham

Sorry, I only speak English (...and Malayalam, and a little German, and a little French, and a little Arabic I picked up while in the UAE.....)

Malayalam?

paracetamol

08:10

@AvnishKabaj What? You got an issue with Kerala? ;-)

Avnish Kabaj

@paracetamol but how do you know Malayalam

paracetamol

08:29

@AvnishKabaj How do you know English? :P

Avnish Kabaj

08:39

@paracetamol generally nobody goes about learning indian state languages

Judging by the fact that you picked Arabic up in UAE

You lived in Kerala ?

paracetamol

I am from Kerala, my dear Cabbage XD

@mhchem Hullo! Been a while! o/

@AvnishKabaj I know very little Arabic, much of it being overly colourful vocabulary that I'm not very proud of ._.

Avnish Kabaj

@paracetamol waaaaaiiiiiit

You've said before that you're german

paracetamol

I never said that ._.

I just like the Country ^^

And @Mart <3

Avnish Kabaj

I remember reading an answer of yours

paracetamol

I remember reading answers of mine too :P

Avnish Kabaj

08:46

O.o

o.O

O.o

paracetamol

._.

mhchem

08:57

@GaurangTandon asked "Is there a way to apply bold and italics formatting to \ce{} expressions?"

Answer: Italics are well supported, because they convey a semantic meaning: $\ce{NO_$x$}$ $\ce{NO_$x$}$, $\ce{V_{V,1}C_{C,0.8}$V$_{C,0.2}}$ $\ce{V_{V,1}C_{C,0.8}$V$_{C,0.2}}$

Color works a little bit: $\ce{$\color{red}{\ce{H2}}$O}$ $\ce{$\color{red}{\ce{H2}}$O}$. But you have to know that parsing is interrupted by \color.

Bold works just a little bit: $\ce{H2$\mathbf{O}$}$ $\ce{H2$\mathbf{O}$}$ works, but $\ce{$\mathbf{\ce{H2}}$O}$ $\ce{$\mathbf{\ce{H2}}$O}$ does not. I will put it (low) on my todo list.

CowperKettle

Word of the day: non-innocent ligand

paracetamol

@CowperKettle XD

Speaking of "innocence" (or the lack thereof)... I miss my senpai @Jan :'(

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paracetamol

12:40

I've just read both RT's and BBC's coverage of the Congress's Strzok hearing:

RT- rt.com/usa/432913-strzok-congress-hearing-fbi

> “ I don’t appreciate being mischaracterized ,” Strzok told Gowdy

> “ I don’t give a damn what you appreciate, Agent Strzok, ” Gowdy replied. “ I don’t appreciate having an FBI agent with unprecedented level of animus working on two major investigations in 2016. ”

However, the BBC thought it'd have a little fun with the order in which points were raised in the hearing...

BBC - bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44815494

> After Mr Strzok said he'd appreciate the chance to explain, the chair of the House Government Oversight Committee shot back: " I don't give a damn what you appreciate, agent Strzok. I don't appreciate having an FBI agent with an unprecedented level of animus working on two major investigations in 2016. "

The BBC's version made it look as though a courageous and level headed Strozk was being denied the opportunity to defend himself from a hostile and unreasonable Gowdy

Sighs

Time and again, I'see RT reporting on things objectively and the BBC subtly altering their reports to make it look like something else transpired...and at the end of the day, MSM tells me RT is "Russian Propaganda" as opposed to their "Truth". This is sickening :/

(Disclaimer: I'm not a Trump supporter; but I'm not a Clinton supporter either)

\o/

Gaurang Tandon

13:02

@mhchem oh cool. I get that I have to use the Mathjax-y alternatives of **bold** and *italics* to produce such display. thanks! :)

@paracetamol i'll admit I too mistook you to be a German, you quote too many German quotes. at least the one in "how are poisons discovered?"

how long did you live in Kerala before leaving for the foreign lands?

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hmm, this new user's mathjax usage is actually quite good...I suspect a sock puppet ;)

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Q: Ionproduct of Water

The ionproduct of pure water is well known to be $$ K_{\rm W} = \left[ {\rm OH^-} \right] \left[ {\rm H_3O^+} \right] = 10^{-14} $$ at some standard conditions (I think 25°C). However having some acid HA in water as far as I'm aware this product is always the same i.e. $pK_{\rm a} + pK_{\rm b} =...

b_jonas

Hmm. Should I still tag chemistry.stackexchange.com/q/99397/16327 inorganic-chemistry if I specifically use organic acids to clean the kettle, but the lime chalk residue and the oxidation themselves are inorganic?

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Anonymous

14:18

@b_jonas I think your question revolves around whether as to leave the kettle dry or not and not what you use to clean it. Also, the chemistry invloved in process particularly deals with inorganic compounds and their reactions. So, I think the tag is correct.

Anonymous

@GaurangTandon Probably no, because he/she was little active on other SE communities in like 2016/17.

Jasmine

15:45

Does anyone know if enals are reduced by LiAlH4 or NaBH4 or both

I mean the carbon carbon double bond in enals

paracetamol

16:22

@Mart I just received a notification asking me to decide on nuking a flagged comment in a Physics.SE chatroom... is this a bug?

P.S- I voted "valid" flag, since I don't think expletives are appropriate in chat (Unless used in a self-deprecating sense) O:)

@GaurangTandon I see .___.

paracetamol

16:35

@GaurangTandon Or a sock puppet of a sock puppet. Sockception?

Martin - マーチン

@paracetamol I don't know what the threshold is to validate flags, but it seems you have just surpassed it.

Avnish Kabaj

@Martin-マーチン 10K

paracetamol

17:01

@Martin-マーチン I wasn't even aware chat-flag validation (By non-mods) was a thing X3

b_jonas

@IceInkberry Ok, thanks.

paracetamol

@AvnishKabaj 10k in total (all SEs), or on a given site?

I crossed the 10k aggregate a long time ago...but this is the first time I was asked to opine on a chat-flag :3

Avnish Kabaj

@paracetamol aggregate

That's what I was told

paracetamol

Hmm, weird :/

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Loong

18:27

Q: Allow sites to opt out of pinning accepted answers to the top

There has been a lot of past discussion about accepted answers and whether they should be, or stay, pinned to the top forever when there are better-scoring alternatives. (Maybe the accepted answer is bad or maybe it was fine then but things have changed and the OP isn't around to accept a better...

feature-request accepted-answer

gateprep

Which of the following has a higher poisson's ratio..

(a).Elastic rubber(b).Wood(c).Copper(d).Steel

Explain if there is any logic

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Abcd

19:36

[Question needs attention:]

Q: SN2: Neopentyl halides and methyl halides

Two part question for you. Let's preface this with I'm in organic chemistry 1, so we're just learning the basics of these reactions. Are neopentyl halides completely inert to any reaction through any pathway, $\mathrm{S_N1, S_N2, E1, E2}$? For $\mathrm{S_N1/E1}$, even after solvolysis of the ha...