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Science, measurement, and play at home. Lab_13 for grownups. If you can measure one molecule you can measure 'em all. tinyurl.com/NatureChemLab14
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A wonderful Ramadan thread. This picture illustrates my teaching pages on symmetry. Just glorious!
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Bayt Al Fann
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2/ Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque, Naqsh-i Jahan Square, Esfahan, Iran Construction of the mosque started in 1603 and was finished in 1619. Built by the chief architect Mohammadreza Isfahani, during the reign of Shah Abbas I of Persia. Beautiful interior dome details #Ramadan
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Round 2: This time with a better lid on the thermos.
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Michael de Podesta
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Replying to @Protons4B @TeenyannB and 3 others
So I checked and it seems the heat leak around the lid was quite significant. Today I tried sealing the flask with it's stopper and 'cup' cover and opening it up periodically. Cooling rate now looks to be around 20% less - closer to 2.5 °C/hour.
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A Lab_14-style experiment: Cooling curves for boiling water in a thermos flask. But there's a problem…
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Michael de Podesta
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Replying to @Protons4B @TeenyannB and 3 others
Cooling rate appears to be 3 °C/hour. I couldn't seal the lid fully because I put a thermocouple in the flask. I'll check today if the small heat leak around the lid made a difference.
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300 cooling curves looked at. Only another 400 or so to go. Remarkably interesting in a rather repetitive sort of way. Is this a cut-away of the Babylonian ziggurat or the staircase of the Temple of the Sun in Palenque?
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An intriguing plot of domestic carbon emissions from a student whose family lives deep in Siberia. Quite a seasonal variation! Figures for travel not checked but intriguing all the same.
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Lots of interesting pics on the
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. For example, it seems that some got a chance to do their experiments in a lab, perhaps back at their school. Look at this lovely spirit lamp! It looks like fun and we hope you shared your experiments with younger students!
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A superb introduction to how to judge a scientific paper. Every student should follow this through (exam revision permitting).
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Calling Bullshit
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In our course, we spend a couple of lectures talking about how tell whether scientific research is legit. callingbullshit.org/tools/tools_le
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Still one of the great challenges of chemistry. Binding the nitrogen to a metal as a ligand is just the start.
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Gniewomir Flis
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Disrupting the century old, Nobel prize winning Haber-Bosch process would be a gamechanger in many ways. Here's a good overview of current research in this field. H/t @philipsargent cen.acs.org/content/cen/ar
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This is what those stupid pods are really for.
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Vittorio Saggiomo (@V_saggiomo@mstdn.social)
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Finally is out, our super cheap, easy to produce in millions, almost universal, and with low waste impact nucleic acid detection (LAMP test for #COVID19) non-instrumental device. The answer is: a Nespresso capsule. The question is: why we did this? 1/n chemrxiv.org/articles/prepr
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Buzz Baum
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I loved Lewis. Wonderful man. An inspiration. Charming, large-hearted, brilliant and wise. I’ll miss the light in his eye when he was trying to start an argument. If there is a God, Lewis will be one atheist she/he’ll definitely want in heaven. Where they’ll be arguing.
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Dr Adam Rutherford
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I am very sad to hear that the great developmental biologist Lewis Wolpert died this morning at the age of 91. He was a giant in my field, and will be missed.
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Looks like we’re not alone.
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Nick Brooks
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Rapid prototyping meets small scale production - 250 custom mini-instruments are heading out to our students across the world, bringing Measurement Science labs to their home. All designed in house and built by our outstanding team of Chemistry teaching technicians! @impchemistry
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