Spring Cleaning

Melanie Shebel

22:10

@hBy2Py Sulphur is not British, it's an obsolete spelling.

Sulfur or sulphur (see spelling and etymology) is a chemical element with symbol S and atomic number 16. It is abundant, multivalent, and nonmetallic. Under normal conditions, sulfur atoms form cyclic octatomic molecules with chemical formula S8. Elemental sulfur is a bright yellow crystalline solid at room temperature. Chemically, sulfur reacts with all elements except for gold, platinum, iridium, tellurium, and the noble gases. Though sometimes found in pure, native form, sulfur usually occurs as sulfide and sulfate minerals. Being abundant in native form, sulfur was known in ancient times, being...

Melanie Shebel

22:32

Anyone want to MathJax this?

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A: How to find the concentration of potassium permanganate in this experiment?

I think your experiment has one setup mistake.: You're mixing 0.8265 g of oxalate with 50 mL of water and 15-20 mL of sulfuric acid. So your 25 mL oxalate solution does not contain 0.8265 g of oxalate (more or less 25 * 0.8265 / 65-70 mL). So you can't know the exact oxalate concentration of thi...

pentavalentcarbon

I will do it right now

nvm...

orthocresol

haha

Melanie Shebel

Don't mess with me @orthocresol :P

jk

pentavalentcarbon

time to get back to work anyway

Melanie Shebel

No, hunting down sulphur v sulfur is cathartic and allows me to hunt down other mistakes in posts which really makes shines up even our best answers.

Mostly the basis is my traffic on my own personal articles has increased tremendously since I've made grammar edits.

orthocresol

22:36

@MelanieShebel If you have the time, there are actually more pressing misspellings than sulfur/sulphur.

Melanie Shebel

No, I mean, the posts also have other major issues.

orthocresol

I see.

Fluorine/flourine bugs me a lot, (fluoride too)

Melanie Shebel

Any other misspellings you can think of that I can use as a basis?

I'll do that one next!

I bet there's florine

orthocresol

Phosphorus/phosphorous is an irritating one, because there are uses for "phosphorous" (namely anything to do with P(III) oxidation state), however the element itself is phosphorus

Melanie Shebel

Ha. I was right. There is florine.

orthocresol

22:38

we really need a smarter search function

Melanie Shebel

I know of a way to search for dead links.

orthocresol

?

Melanie Shebel

:P

google.com/…

I have a plug-in on Wordpress, but for this we'll have to google it.

It would be nice to have a csv list of all question urls.

orthocresol

You could probably do that with about 2 minutes' worth of coding on SEDE

(The 5 hours of learning SQL isn't counted.)

Melanie Shebel

Bahaha

orthocresol

22:47

cleanup action chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/6657/… deleted (ortho)

answer isn't an answer

hBy2Py

@MelanieShebel Mm, sorry, picked a bad representative post. But with the tag wikis & stuff you'd been doing AE/BE edits a lot.

Melanie Shebel

What?

hBy2Py

The British / American English edits

@orthocresol Nuke. Localized, and hint answer

@orthocresol @Melanie What exactly do you need searched up?

I'm on a SEDE kick lately

Melanie Shebel

Oh, I didn't realize. I'll take a better look. I only open a post because of an actual misspelling and often, I'll just turn on my spell check when I open a post which flags the other words. I'll be more careful next time to only edit the misspellings.

But sometimes posts also use both British and American spellings, so in that case I change it so that it's one or the other, not both.

hBy2Py

@MelanieShebel Oh, yeah, definitely harmonize.

Probably situations with mixed usage came from later edits?

Melanie Shebel

22:53

Probably.

hBy2Py

@MelanieShebel CSV list of all question links

Melanie Shebel

Damn.

hBy2Py

Query is here

Melanie Shebel

Thanks!

Bahaha

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hBy2Py

It uses the abbreviated /q/1234 URL syntax, so if that automatic tool chokes on them, I should be able to revise the query to put out the full URLs

Melanie Shebel

22:56

71739 questions asked

20719 cells.

That's some heavy moderations.

moderation*

orthocresol

71739 posts*

afaik

hBy2Py

<nod>, that number includes answers

Melanie Shebel

Ah

I have sort of an interesting question

orthocresol

FWIW, searching "deleted:yes" returns 13333 results and "deleted:no" 45326. Not sure what happened to the rest. (Don't bother trying it; it's mod-only)

Melanie Shebel

On stackoverflow, questions often garner multiple answers. There's multiple types of logic for a program, so this allows for that.

But chem.SE often just gets one answer. Is this because one answer is more "right" than another?

Or is this because of low usage? Or perhaps, if 75,000 rep guy answers, how could your answer possibly be any better?

orthocresol

22:59

i think so, but it depends; sometimes you get very good answers and then there's just not much left to say.

sometimes there's just not enough people who know about something

hBy2Py

<nod>, a handful of best-guesses

Sometimes new answers add value by filling in gaps in earlier answers.

orthocresol

Sometimes there are multiple ways to look at things, and then you get multiple answers

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Q: Why don't equivalent hydrogens cause splitting in NMR?

When doing NMR spectroscopy, it is an observed fact that equivalent hydrogens do not split one another. Why don't equivalent hydrogens split each other's signals? For example, why is the NMR spectrum for ethane a singlet instead of a quartet or even a dodecuplet (due to the hydrogens on the same ...

I retract that statement; the title is actually entirely accurate

hBy2Py

@ortho, can this be right? No tag wikis or excerpts have ever been deleted? That's impossible ... what about reaction?

orthocresol

Well, as of last Sunday, reaction still existed.

hBy2Py

haha, point

orthocresol

23:09

However, I am not sure how it will look like after the database updates.

hBy2Py

But is that the first tag that's ever been deleted from the site?

Seems hardly likely

orthocresol

No, mods (usually Martin) do tag cleanups once in a while

I don't know how it would look like from the system's perspective

It may just be as if it never existed to begin with.

Melanie Shebel

23:45

Anyone want to do the Jax on this question?

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Q: Why does a mixture of siloxene and cerium(IV) sulfate luminesce?

I performed an experiment where siloxene and cerium(IV) sulfate were mixed together: when I did so the mixture produced an orange-yellow glow. Why does it glow? What is it about the two chemicals in particular that make this happen? Method for synthesising siloxene: Carefully measure out 5...

physical-chemistry reaction-mechanism electromagnetic-radiation

pentavalentcarbon

no

Melanie Shebel

Haha

Jax in this one too:

Both question and quoted answer

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Q: Is it possible to separate out (MgxCu1-x)2(CO3)(OH)2 into simply (MgxCu1-x)(CO3)?

Here is the problem I am stuck with, in particular just the first part of it. I have calculated the moles (4.492 x 10-3 mol) and I am quizzed with regards to the equation that occurs. First assumption I am making is that the gas released is carbon dioxide. Is it possible to separate out (MgxC...

inorganic-chemistry analytical-chemistry

There are some I'm able to jax and some I'm not able to touch.

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