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Questions are asked and answered regularly on the site. Also the answers are upvoted and downvoted alike. Upvoted answers are the ones that are good in quality, are useful and accurate. On the other hand, downvoted answers are poorly written, or misinforming, or do not serve the purpose. What if ...

A question was closed as duplicate: What exactly is meant by standard state in thermodynamics? However, the question it now points to has no answer: Standard state conditions in thermodynamics The old question was posed almost 4 years ago, has a score of zero (zero upvotes, zero downvotes) and no...

There was this question "How do I determine temperature and pressure rise whenever mols of gases are added in a isolated room?" that I attempted to answer - but in the end I found myself in a roadblock where everything I felt was necessary was not in the problem statement. Other answers seem to h...

I have a question about my Chemistry Stack Exchange post: Is Phenyl free radical, Phenyl cation or Phenyl anion aromatic in nature or non aromatic ? If Yes then why do we consider them to be unstable?

My question clearly is not a duplicate as the proposed 'answer' does not answer all that I've answered so I'm not sure why one is asked to edit a question when nobody has any intention of ever reopening it. To be clear the duplicate post never fully answered all what was asked in the question; fu...

Triggered by a question on academia.se about a possibly AI generated publication under review (link), and drawing inspiration from mattermodelling.se, I became curious if their cite button would be a feature generally perceived as useful here on chemistry.se. The button in question appears below...

Suppose that we wanted a benign bot which scrapes somw i formation the search results from the chemistry stack exchange. We enter aomthing similair to created:1y..2y closed:no score:1 into the search bar. After getting a link to each posting, we search the posting for various names of chemicals. ...

observation: Thanks to community effort, there is a page about resources learning Chemistry. Some moments ago it was possible to answer a question related to chemical nomenclature (link) with copy-pastes from this compiled "directories". On occasion, I find questions related to LaTeX already d...

On 19 June, 2023, this question I had asked and this answer that I had provided recieved an upvote each by some user. That made a total positive vote count of 6 on both these posts. However, on June 20, 2023, the reputation I had gained the previous day on both posts got deducted and both posts f...

I asked some questions on Chemistry Stack Exchange recently. Just now, though, if I want to ask a different question, I get the following notice: You can’t post new questions right now It looks like you might need a break - take a breather and come back soon! You've asked 3 questions recently, ...

We know that the ~ is used before a number to say it's approximate. But in the case of people reached, the uncertainty comes when 1000 people is passed (after it all numbers has a k to denote kilo or thousand). Why is the ~ sign used even when the number is exact and three-digits.

In the question feed, each question shows data about votes, answers and views on the left hand side, e.g. The answers and views make sense mathematically, and the grammar works. However, the votes have a twisted logic. In the example, the score was zero, but there were two votes (one up, one dow...

(The title is meant to be a bit tongue in cheek) To preface things: I do not think it should be compulsory for downvoters to explain the reasoning behind their downvote since some might be doing it to help the site have better questions/clean it up and may not have the time to explain their reas...

I am having a difficulty with this answer. I tried adding another reference to it, but then when I clicked on the link I suddenly started getting security errors even though it is supposed to be a trusted site. Rolling back did not help, neither did restarting my device, and I cannot find anythin...

In regards to this question. Why? As a long term participant of many stackexchangr sites, I simply can not come up with any explanation except targeted downvoting.

I was working on my post How to Synthesize Aluminum Sodium Chloride with Low Cost, Easily Obtainable Starting Ingredients on the Inorganic Chemistry Stack Exchange site [Link to the Inorganic Chemistry Site][1] It provides an excellent mechanism to write chemical formulas, namely like $\ce[Al(H2O...

I have recently noted that a question that I had answered has been deleted by the Community bot along with which my answer was deleted too. Also I had no downvotes on my answer and it had 0 score until the deletion. Besides these, I have only three answers manually deleted upto date with a total ...

Basically, everywhere I use the \ce tag on chemistry stack exchange, I get wrong formulae. The subscripts are becoming superscripts while the superscripts are becoming subscripts. Is it just me or is this happening to everyone? See the figures below for examples. It seems to be working fine on ...

I have posted a total of 7 questions on CSE. Only one question received downvotes (due to a miscalculation, which I resolved), while I received 7 upvotes on the other 6 questions. Why am I not able to post new questions on CSE?

Recently, I have been receiving comments from a particular (unnamed for anonymity) moderator which fall under harassment (use of vulgar/strong language) category of the Code of Conduct. I have reported the moderator's comments on two separate occasions, but there doesn't seem to be any action tha...

I have a question about my Chemistry Stack Exchange post: Can order of reaction ever be irrational. Why or why not? Why was this post closed ? It seems to be to the point and was discussed in the comments. Also how do I improve it?

Here is the question. This is a very simple question. It is of this form; what must the value of x be for P to be true? Not only is such questions simple (in what they ask, not necessarily easy to answer), but I do think I formulated my question clearly. It could be that the premise of my questio...

Recently, I have been receiving downvotes on some of my questions and answers. I wanted to propose a short anonymous one-click survey while downvoting a post which may explain the reason behind the downvotes and help in improving the content. Otherwise, it becomes difficult to figure out exactly ...

Although these two questions are from same poster and equally bad (no offense to OP), can you please merge them? Define Stoichiometric Compound to Why is Fe3O4 a non-stoichiometric compound?

It shows an error when I type "\ch{NH3}." How do I write the chemical formulae? Although it is cumbersome when dealing with complex reactions, I know I can use the "\text" commmand as "\text{NH}_3".

Yes, this is a likely duplicate. I should have searched meta first. In that self-referential spirit.... There has been imo an uptick of late, possibly seasonal, in homeworkish posts, many likely duplicates of earlier posts. This seems then a good time then to reflect on what is the best way to ha...

pKa, Salt-bridge, coulombic interactions are important concepts for both chemistry, biochemistry, biology aspects. One would expect them to be quite hot topics. Strangely, however no such tags seem to exist on the site. Were these tags omitted deliberately or just never created? If these tags can...

The site aims to keep high standards and attract experienced and knowledgeable practitioners of chemistry. The point is to share knowledge, not "doing someone else's work", but that is just what happens when you provide an answer, you are doing the hard work by helping someone figure something ou...

We have had posts previously discussing how ChatGPT might affect answers on Chemistry SE. Here, I am opening a discussion about how it might affect traffic and types of questions posed on Q&A sites. It seems ChatGPT is perfect for homework-type questions where students hope for a quick answer to ...

Is there a recommended, in place approach on CH SE site to potentially suspicious questions about sensitive chemistry topics like poisons, explosives, drugs etc? Many of such questions manifest common signs triggering a red flag in my mind, like: The user with mostly zero or minimal serious ques...

I was trying to see what edit was made in this particular answer but the edit history doesn't show the edited portion. I thought maybe some extra spaces was wiped out but couldn't figure where was the extra spaces in the first place. Even if there was acres of spaces between the paragraphs, the f...

I have been using stack exchange for over a year and am active in questioning and answers. But all my posts so far have solely belonged to my account. I haven't tried to post in community wiki. The site says that upvotes on community wiki posts aren't subjected to any account and won't reward me ...

I am new to Chemistry on SE and was DV'd several times and closed for this question: What results from the neutralization copper citrate with Na2CO3 It seems on-topic, but I must be missing something. The question started far too broad, so I edited it down to a much simpler question, but it was...

Without saying who it was, I'll say that I was pinged in a Chemistry chat room and told: "@NikeDattani Bots don't keep rooms open - it's user's post that do, so maybe don't waste anyone's time?" If anyone feels that I'm wasting their time, they are very welcome to let me know, but please do it ...

Seeing this post closed it feels useful to review the motivation behind use of the close option. Yes, the OP considered a number of orthogonal options to rid said food of the offending substance, which suggests that more clarity behind the motivation and scope of the problem would be welcome (is...

I have a question about my Chemistry Stack Exchange post: To what extent does blender speed dissolve table salt + cold tap water? Why does my question need "details or clarity"? Buck Thorn grokked it! At home daily, I need to mix my table salt + COLD tap water. The final solution shall be COLD...

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web: We designed the Stack Exch...

I asked this question: Is there a general name for a group connected to a N-atom? While it may not be the peak of my SE presence, I was suprised that it got closed as a homework. The question itself, as it turned out, may be silly for a chemistry expert, but I really don't see it being about aski...

If we look at the questions on the Chemistry site, what would a physical chemistry FAQ look like? Because the site tries to avoid duplicates, frequently asked does not mean frequently posted. Ideally, someone asking a frequent question would find a good answer on StackExchange without having to p...

Would it be on-topic to ask here why uric acid is not what I and many others would have guessed, i.e. 1,3,7,9-tetrahydropurine-2,6,8-trione but rather is something many would find surprising, i.e. 7,9-dihydro-1H-purine-2,6,8(3H)-trione? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uric_acid says it is the compl...

I just noticed (for reasons you could guess, hint) that there is an edit link in the help center where I did not expect one to be. There is no content to see, so let's create some. Here's the page: https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/help Here's a screen grab (from mobile - I know - lame) where y...

A few weeks ago OpenAI released chatGPT, a chat bot capable of generating detailed human readable answers such as encountered on this site. For instance, when fed the question What is the decomposition of potassium nitrite? it answered: Potassium nitrite is a chemical compound with the formula K...

In the past, we've had some "bounty dances." In the spirit of end-of-semester end-of-Gregorian-year Winter/Summer Bash spirit, I'd like to borrowing / shamelessly steal the previous idea, which seems to have fallen away over the last year or three. All credit to Martin-マーチン. Let's get some Bounti...

"Acyclovir Impurity B" is the name for guanine used by a handful of websites. Googling the term shows this. https://www.trc-canada.com/product-detail/?G836000 which seems to confirm that that "acyclovir impurity B" really is another name for guanine, albeit very rarely used. https://acanthusresea...

Would it be on-topic to ask on Chemistry what "6H" means in "2-amino-1,9-dihydro-6H-purin-6-one" which is the preferred IUPAC name of guanine according to this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanine and there's some support from Acanthus research here: https://acanthusresearch.c...

I am not sure on what SE I should ask this question, so the safest bet I can make is this one. The problem I am facing is that I am not able to find the actual picture of compounds when I search for them. For example, just now I wanted to search for how interstitial compounds look in real life bu...

People have said in the comments of my question How might a chemist deduce the IUPAC name of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) from the skeletal formula? that the question would take many pages to answer, and/or that I wouldn't understand the answers due to my not knowing enough about chemistry. T...

I don't know but, it is my observation but this site is very unfriendly to novice people like me. Note that I am a high school student Asking simple questions like this, or this, only results in being downvoted, although I am following all the following rules: asking for a specific concept or to...

I understood that alkenes become vicinal diols but after that, what happened on addition of dichromate?

I was looking up some information about N2O5 and came across this question. The worrying thing is that Google automatically displayed the answer with the lowest points (-13 because it was completely wrong) as the best answer. This had me confused for several minutes and this isn't probalby the on...