Hi, I am able to do this question without the "80% of the heat released was absorbed by the water" part, and ended up getting 892.2g
How, does "80% of the heat released was absorbed by the water" affect the answer?
EDIT: I used the formula ((change in)$H)/n = (-mC$(change in)$T$)/$n$ to find the...
@SafdarFaisal Hmmm... Clearly, Ben deliberately chose not to answer the question at hand. That's a bit awkward to deal with. But, given that it's 8 years old and nobody would care, what'd you think about the "backwards solution" of editing the question to fit the answer?
@BuckThorn Hmmm... I feel like this could be saved, but part of the question would have to be moved into an answer...... might be more work than it's worth. I don't mind deleting.
I released this one to the front page after edits. In hindsight the title is terrible, but it is hard to decipher what the OP meant. In addition the original question asks to compare energy of different orbitals, not of configurations (eg excited versus ground state). Answer is ok but is it answering the real question? Hmm...
Strange question and self-answer. I am not sure what the question even is, and am not sure the OP really understood either, but OP is convinced book is "wrong". Suggest deletion.
I thought spring cleaning isn't just about removing homework tag, but rather thorough editing of the older questions tagged as such as well as the corresponding answers. I think we have a problem because the main page is populated with old unedited homework question with the tag freshly removed.
This doesn't look great IMO because new posts are sunk for good in this mass and the majority of unedited posts just look bad and they are everywhere. I tried to edit some of them, but the older ones pop up every minute rendering the efforts obsolete.
No prob, I would probably wage a war on HW questions in small batches (3 to 5 questions at a time), and make sure your dopamine level is high enough so you don't want to nuke everything :D
@andselisk @ToddMinehardt We have workflows here: chemistry.meta.stackexchange.com/q/4644/4945 Much of this room is about providing transparancy and accountability to the comunity. We'll try to salvage as much as we can and try to delete as little as possible. If we delete, we always ask for at least a second opinion. This is also not only about the homework tag, that's just a target.
Also, we've now gone through about 3000 questions with the tag. It took a long time. And we started with the worst. So whatever you see now is left over, and it is not all garbage. That makes the whole process a lot slower and a lot more tedious.
yeah there is plenty of salvageable, too - i have been erring on the side of delete if no effort, but i'll get with the program and thanks for the link
There have been plenty of opportunities where salvaging meant editing in the effort to the question to keep a good answer or adding more detail to an existing answer ... it varies with the actual question.
@ToddMinehardt The most important thing is to keep the promise to the community here. We're not censors, so we just janitoring around a bit. And everybody is invited to join. A lot of this was based on non-moderator effort.
@Martin-マーチン - Understood. I'm hoping the 10-20 I deleted (approximate) of the 200 or so were not overreaching - I'll look at my history and bring them back into SC chat
@Martin-マーチン - begs the question: how do i see my deletes? they don't appear in my 'All actions' section
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