NurdRage

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Sep 18

finally, never thought i would get this far. But i have a 10-year old bottle of unactivated sodium acetate. proving that it can remain in a metastable for at least 10 years. Anything extra i should with it before i open it and let it solidify? or leave it another 10 years?

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Sep 14

Currently hosing down the lab fridge.

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Sep 13

The calculation comes from the average person needing 0.8kg of oxygen per day, and producing 0.8kg of oxygen from water electrolysis costs about 5kwh in electricity. Be grateful the earth doesn't ask for money, just our responsibility.

if you want to find out how much it would cost to breath completely artificially: Multiply your kilowatt-hour cost of electricity by 5. This very roughly comes out to the daily cost of oxygen for the average person by the electrolysis of water. I'd pay $0.32/d, world avg: $0.70/d

Granted, the average electricity cost worldwide is about $0.14/kwh, so the average person would need to pay about 70 cents per day to breath if all their oxygen was provided artificially by water electrolysis. That's about $2 trillion per year of value that the earth provides.

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Sep 12

Assuming electricity costs $0.06/kwh, electrolyzing water to produce enough oxygen for you to breath would costs about 30 cents per day.

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Sep 8

I just realized Queen Elizabeth never got to send herself a birthday card for reaching 100.

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Sep 8

Hmmm... Is the face on our money going to change?

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Sep 6

Good luck students to your new year.

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Sep 3

Hmm... so many home medical test kits, like glucose, ketones, nitrites, that could be adapted for amateur chemistry use. They're cheap and very easy to obtain. Just not as precise or quantitative as a proper lab test. Still might be worth exploring for amateur chemistry.

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Sep 2

Everybody wants to help. But nobody can help.

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Aug 25

Currently looking at phosphine detectors for my lab. If I'm going to experiment with ways to make phosphorus then there is a strong possibly phosphine could be an accidental waste product.

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Aug 25

A university or college that exclaims their graduates have a 96% employment rate isn't all that impressive when the national unemployment rate is 3.5%

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Aug 23

Currently trying to find some amateur way to make phosphorus. So far they all involve very high temperatures (+1000C). i wonder if there is a relatively mild process thats accessible with a hot plate (300C)

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Aug 22

Okay. This is the silliest scam I've ever seen. Someone emailed me and said they would reveal I plagiarized my research if I didn't pay them. When I asked on what they couldn't correctly state what I did. Anyone get this scam? Frankly the Nigerian price is more credible.

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Aug 22

Applied to some lab tech jobs that say "no laboratory experience needed". Still rejected. I seriously wonder what's so terrible about a Ph.D. in chemistry. Any ideas?

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Aug 20

I sometimes wonder if future scientists will laugh or cringe at us for giving our discoveries silly names like "Steve", "Sonic the Hedgehog" gene, "Moronic Acid", etc. Then i remember my country, second biggest in the world, is called the "village", and our planet is "dirt"

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Jul 30

I wonder if these AI recruiting programs can't tell the difference between Inorganic and Organic chemistry degrees. I keep getting offers for organic chemistry positions. Maybe it sees the word organic in inorganic and assumes they're the same thing.

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Jul 30

Houseplant: You gave me triple organic compost with TAP WATER?!?! I'm going to die you neglectful slob! Weeds: F*** yeah, CONCRETE!

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Jul 29

Wait a minute... What if aliens are cooling their hyper-advanced power reactors using the urca process? Such a system would be completely invisible to infrared detection. You could even hide it inside a megastructure without issue... ... we need better neutrino detectors.

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Jul 18

Awesome, bluetooth and wifi thermometers are now commonplace and easily bought from amazon. And there are even models with probes you can insert into reactions. I would have killed for such things 10 years ago. It's tremendously useful to be able to monitor a reaction remotely.

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Jul 18

I constantly wonder if the child-proof lock that always gives me trouble is either so badly designed that it causes trouble, or it's perfectly designed and i'm the stupid child who can't open it.

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Jul 16

Still, I find it amazing we can just replace lung function as an emergency treatment. I grew up thinking it was one of those SoL organs in an emergency. If it stops, you're SoL. Unlike say, a kidney.

ECMO isn't available at all hospitals though and you still need to survive long enough to get there. So if you happen to be working in a phosgene lab or industry then make sure you're within the operational coverage range of a hospital with it.

But recently, extra corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has been implemented as a life saving treatment to takeover the oxygenation of the lungs and give them time to heal. It's still a critical situation and survival rate isn't perfect, but it's not the death sentence it was.

I always thought phosgene poisoning was a death sentence. It burns your lungs and you die several hours later of pulmonary edema. The insidious part is that for the first few hours you're breathing fine but the damage is starting. You just say goodbye while you prepare to die.

On one of my applications, instead of a predefined selection, the form had a field where you could write down whatever pronoun you wanted. So i put in "Sovereign Lord and Master of the Universe". I didn't get the job.

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Jul 13

while i am pleased that we're finding worms that can eat Styrofoam, and possibly reduce our plastic pollution problem, I am terrified that one day when i unpack a new computer, i'll open the box and a bunch of live wriggling worms will fall out.

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Jul 13

I remember when the Hubble was launched and the sheer overwhelming disappointment when it was discovered the mirror was flawed. Seeing the JWST perform so perfectly has been wonderful.

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Jul 12

With any luck, JWST photographed someone having a worse time than us.

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Jul 9

Password hint: Last 20 digits of Pi

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The LHC needs to turn up the power, the earth is still here.

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Jul 1

Surely nothing will come of this stupid thing called an "atom".

Let me describe a tiny device that uses powerful columbic fields to confine electrons according to their wave function. And you can move those electrons using electromagnetic energy. That's it, that's all it is. Sounds utterly boring and useless doesn't it?

Scientists are sometimes the worst people to tell you the implications of research. Because we'll spend all the time explaining how/why it works and not what it *does*, or explain what the bigger implications are.

My first attempt at artificial chicken flavor was a success! There is 0 meat ingredients in here but it smells strongly of roast chicken. And a bit burnt. Gonna refine the recipe, but this is really encouraging!! Next up, maple.

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Jun 29

All scientific papers everywhere should be able to trace their citation chains all the way back to initial conditions of the big bang.