ornery_chemist
@ornery_chemist@mander.xyz
- Comment on Why 6 days ago:
For those who did a search only to get back pages of less-than-useless SEO slop that just recites the number line, here is something that better describes some of the grammatical insanity.
also, czterydzieści cztery is imo one of the less pronounceable words (well, two of them) in Polish.
- Comment on Don't ask for more pixels 6 days ago:
Sure, there may be a maximal element, but not necessarily a maximum (there might be multiple people of equal and maximal gayness, not just one person).
Also, not relevent to the logic here per se, but last time this went around the conclusion was that a spectrum implies a total order, not just partial.
- Comment on (・・;φ 1 week ago:
I know that this is partially a joke, but I was trying to figure out what kind of lab would be done to produce chloroform that would be appropriate for students (recent OSHA crackdown on chloromethanes notwithstanding)… haloform reaction I suppose? Is that a common teaching lab experiment?
- Comment on Marshmallow Test 1 week ago:
My mom took my little brother to participate in a child psych study like this when he was a toddler (mom had some ties to the university). It was a very similar experiment with skittles as the prize. My brother sat staring glumly at the candy the whole time. The test administrator was increasingly enthusastic with praise after each round right up until the end when she congratulated him and said that he could have the whole bag. He said “no thanks” and ran back to mom crying because he was told there would be candy but they only had skittles, which he very much did not like (and for that matter still doesn’t). The administrator was apparently embarrassed and told my mom that she thought that all kids liked skittles…
- Comment on Do you know the answer? 2 weeks ago:
^dontthinkaboutitdontthinkaboutitdontthinkaboutit^
- Comment on Good to see someone caring about BiLions 2 weeks ago:
According to my buddy who worked for Dow, part of these “savings” apparently was taking a hatchet to their R&D segment with a bunch of spray-and-pray layoffs (apparently a common happening these days). I realize Dow is mostly commodity chemicals these days which is much more preservative in nature than other segments of the chemical industry, but even so it sounds like they are killing any hope of competing with new technologies and moving to the “squeeze as much as possible out before it goes tits up” stage.
- Comment on 100% all natural hand-drawn comic 4 weeks ago:
A bunch of electrons? Nah F only ever wants just one more than its natural allotment. But it is extremely, violently jealous of that electron.
- Comment on Bubble Wrap! 1 month ago:
If it was an x-ray, isn’t it a little weird to use a radioactive dye (or contrast agent)? I thought that for GI things it was usually a just contrast agent that absorbs x-rays really well… barium or some shit.
- Comment on Why does my back hurt? 1 month ago:
If I stood up straight, my eye level was above the window. Also, glove boxes. The shorter group members could use platforms to raise their height but had trouble reaching the corners, while I had to do a mix of taking an uncomfortably wide stance and slouching. I wish they had been more suitable for my height… I thought everything would be better with taller hoods in my current workplace, but all they did was extend the sash to the floor.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 1 month ago:
I got one because I was intrigued by its lead rotation, but I found that it really didn’t rotate the lead enough while I wrote. I kept having to rotate the barrel manually to keep a thin line like I do for every other mechanical pencil, and then would get annoyed every time the clip came around to brush my hand. I’ve been wondering if I’m doing something wrong, or if Japanese just uses more shorter strokes. Do you also like it when writing English?
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 1 month ago:
Arsenic is a classic murder poison. It’s been known since anciemt times, though possibly unsuited to your onset requirement. Acute poisoning by ingestion is generally within a few hours, but if your character sustains lower doses over time, you could probably draw out the timeline to whatever you wanted. It would be obvious that the character is unwell during this time, but the symptoms aren’t super specific and could be confused with e.g. food poisoning.
Or just invent a mushroom like others said. The toxins are diverse enough that I doubt anyone would be too upset if you tuned it exactly to your timeline and desired symptoms.
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 1 month ago:
Cyanide poisoning is famously pretty fast though…
- Comment on Acetone: A Thread 2 months ago:
If those undergrads could figure out how to turn acetone into TNT…
Amateurs. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetone_peroxide
- Comment on Acetone: A Thread 2 months ago:
EHS would raise hell if they caught us putting waste solvent in anything but a hazardous waste container…
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 2 months ago:
What a coincidende, the end of my support for windows is also approaching.
jk I srubbed that shit from my personal devices years ago after graduating.
- Comment on i'm gonna need directions 2 months ago:
Hey look, it’s a kürzlich aufgebaute vom Aufbauprinzip verbaute Bau
- Comment on The Periodic Table according to astronomers 3 months ago:
The intended joke is that hypervalent iodine compounds like Dess-Martin periodinane different oxidation states like you often see for transition metals. As an example, the mechanism usually drawn for oxidations by DMP is similar to those drawn for, e.g., PCC/Jones reagent, where the electrons removed from the substrate is “banked” at the metal center. Obviously, redox chemistry is not at all limited to transition metals, but I am often surprised at iodine’s propensity to engage in it. A lot of research over the past decade or two has also developed redox catalysis with these reagents, reactivity which is commonly (though again not always) the purview of transition metals.
- Comment on The Periodic Table according to astronomers 3 months ago:
Iodine is a transition metal I will die on this hill.
- Comment on ocan't 3 months ago:
δ 8.52 - 0.9 ppm (m, 56 H). e z
- Comment on Unionized 3 months ago:
What about ChemE then? They’re both.
- Comment on USA Question | How much is a dozen large eggs near you? 3 months ago:
$6.49 from Giant near Philly today
- Comment on Sadge 3 months ago:
And yet the f block is missing entirely. Oh, the sacrifices we make!
- Comment on Sadge 3 months ago:
6th period onward looks a little funny…
- Comment on based on a true story 4 months ago:
Me last night making weird noises while reading Wikipedia and trying to figure out Tamil pronunciation. It says intervocalic ற is trilled and ர is tapped but that’s definitely not what I heard in the yt video I had just watched…
Also ழ. Also ந ஞ ன ண ங (5 n sounds!?!)
- Comment on Learning a new language is easy! 4 months ago:
I think the biggest difficulty when starting out is that you don’t know common endings and syllable structure, and so it can be hard to parse where the morphological boundaries lie. It’s much easier once you understand those, though you will still find instances where two components are combined in an unintuitive (for the learner) way, particularly if the translation maps to a (apparently) indivisible root in the learner’s language.
- Comment on Learning a new language is easy! 4 months ago:
I’ve played around with changing Windows system languages before and was indeed thrown off by the slew of Gruppenrichtlinienbearbeitungsprogramm-type calques. Glad to know that Germans also find this offputting ;)
- Comment on Learning a new language is easy! 4 months ago:
Löschen can also mean to offload cargo from a ship…
I did not know this one either, and it seems even more different from delete/erase/extinguish. I had to look this up; wiktionary says that the unloading sense is actually from a different root (MND lössen, cognate with “los”), which may have changed due to association with the “erasure” sense, particularly in the context of erasure from ship inventories and logbooks.
Also, thank you for the context. This kind of detail tends to be extremely difficult to search for.
- Comment on Learning a new language is easy! 4 months ago:
TIL that löschen is also used to mean extinguishing fires. Firefighter support vehicle, I guess?
- Comment on What the hell 4 months ago:
GFP is often combined with other genes of interest in biotech to provide an easy way to check whether the genes of interest are successfully incorporated/active. Glowy cells = successful, dark = unsuccessful/inactive. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporter_gene
- Comment on Precision takes time 5 months ago:
one gets silicosis and the other gets siliconetits