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Data Graham posted:That drat radiation! Nazi radiation.
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# ? Apr 16, 2015 04:20 |
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You can Nazi it, yet it will still kill you in high concentration.
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# ? Apr 16, 2015 09:27 |
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But... "The two pentazole ions (N5+ and N5–) that constitute dipentazole (N10) are flat and connected perpendicularly to one another." Theoretical scientists, eh.
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# ? Apr 16, 2015 09:49 |
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When has molecular strain ever stopped chemists before?
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# ? Apr 16, 2015 11:36 |
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Carbon dioxide posted:When has molecular strain ever stopped chemists before? That's what threw me a few posts up when I thought the only nice configuration was a sheet. Turns out the only nice configuration is a sheet.
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# ? Apr 16, 2015 12:28 |
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Carbon dioxide posted:When has molecular strain ever stopped chemists before? When it killed them.
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# ? Apr 16, 2015 13:13 |
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Rigged Death Trap posted:When it killed them. There's always more chemists.
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# ? Apr 16, 2015 13:15 |
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Hexyflexy posted:That's what threw me a few posts up when I thought the only nice configuration was a sheet. Turns out the only nice configuration is a sheet. So basically the chemistry inverse of this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxKJKWf32js
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:There's always more grad students
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# ? Apr 16, 2015 13:47 |
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:Isn't the longest compound name a muscle protein? It's also the biggest protein ever (~1 micron ) with the most number of exons and the biggest exon among them. The IUPAC name is like 200k letters long and took some Russian guy like 3 and a half hours to say it out loud this one time. Titin is pretty cool and there's some cool work coming out about its function in nonmuscle cells as part of the chromatin condensation machinery during cell division. [/cell bio nerd out]
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Skinny King Pimp posted:the biggest exon among them. I hope someone calls it the Exon Valdez. And I hope someone else smacks him because it's so played out
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rndmnmbr posted:Klapötke is quite possibly incapable of creating compounds that don't spontaneously detonate. I have to grin whenever I see that name. It is strangely appropriate for a mad scientist. It doesn't actually mean anything in German, it just sounds like it belongs to somebody with thick glasses, unkempt hair and a
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# ? Apr 16, 2015 20:25 |
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I like to think the first two syllables of his name are an onomatopoeia for a big explosion.
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# ? Apr 16, 2015 21:10 |
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Phanatic posted:Feh, piddling little Co-60 source. GWBBQ posted:How about a facility that, unlike Chernobyl, intentionally irradiated the hell out of its surroundings to simulate nuclear war? A good radiation exposure story tends to be a reliable way to unnerve people, so it fits in perfectly for this thread. I've been collecting sources with the intention of writing a full article on Wikipedia, so I'll share it here.
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# ? Apr 17, 2015 00:39 |
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Carbon dioxide posted:I like to think the first two syllables of his name are an onomatopoeia for a big explosion. Also remarkably similar to Kaput, which means about the same as it does in English.
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For some reason
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# ? Apr 17, 2015 12:51 |
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Both of which are stolen from the french capot.
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# ? Apr 17, 2015 13:55 |
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Collateral Damage posted:Both of which are stolen from the french capot. The French have all the good words for giving up.
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Ultimate Mango posted:The French have all the good words for giving up. They'll happily surrender all of them if you really want them.
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Zopotantor posted:I have to grin whenever I see that name. It is strangely appropriate for a mad scientist. "What happened to that chemical sample you were working on?" "It went Klapötke!"
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# ? Apr 19, 2015 03:57 |
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Zopotantor posted:It doesn't actually mean anything in German, it just sounds like it belongs to somebody with thick glasses, unkempt hair and a
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Collateral Damage posted:What's the name of that channel of chemistry videos on youtube? Older guy, looks like the stereotypical mad scientist. The one who's a professor at the University of Nottingham? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg2WzCzKpYU
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Collateral Damage posted:What's the name of that channel of chemistry videos on youtube? Older guy, looks like the stereotypical mad scientist. Periodic Videos. The big hair guy is Sir Martyn Poliakoff. e:f;b
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You know, I would be quite happy and interested in watching any of the hexanitro or other nitrogen hell compounds be made and tested. -Via webcam on the other side of the world. Free the nitrogen! It just wants to be free! (Violently and distressingly all over the place)
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Kinetica posted:You know, I would be quite happy and interested in watching any of the hexanitro or other nitrogen hell compounds be made and tested. -Via webcam on Mars.
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# ? May 15, 2015 20:30 |
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I was actually recently at a conference where someone was working with the hexanitro compound. Although it's not in my specific field I tried to go out of morbid curiosity. The presenter never showed up for his talk
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# ? May 16, 2015 01:25 |
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Hard to open the conference room door when you're missing your arms.
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# ? May 16, 2015 02:23 |
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Hard to open the conference room door when you're missing your arms. Any excuse to link Derek Lowe on hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane: I'd call for all the chemists who've ever worked with a hexanitro compound to raise their hands, but that might be assuming too much about the limb-to-chemist ratio.
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# ? May 16, 2015 10:06 |
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Someone at my local makerspace thinks we should have a rocket engine competition.quote:Rules would be as follows: I replied with a link to Ignition! and a quick list of things legal under his rules:
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# ? Jun 16, 2015 17:46 |
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It's not like you can make most that stuff in your bath tub though, without causing a really hot fire or suffering a horribly painful, prolonged death by various chemicals. But if you've got the set up somewhere.....
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# ? Jun 16, 2015 18:10 |
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If you do, please let us know so we can take an out of state vacation.
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# ? Jun 16, 2015 19:01 |
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TasogareNoKagi posted:Someone at my local makerspace thinks we should have a rocket engine competition. If you manage to power a rocket with Dimethylmercury, I'll be genuinely impressed. And obviously terrified.
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# ? Jun 16, 2015 19:04 |
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:If you manage to power a rocket with Dimethylmercury, I'll be genuinely impressed. Discussed in this thread (?), the Army tried to.
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# ? Jun 16, 2015 19:16 |
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Are there restrictions on running an extension cord to the rocket? If not, build an ion engine.
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# ? Jun 16, 2015 19:25 |
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ol qwerty bastard posted:Are there restrictions on running an extension cord to the rocket? If not, build an ion engine. It'll be the first launch vehicle to get heavier with altitude!
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Geirskogul posted:Discussed in this thread (?), the Army tried to. The Navy I think. From what I remember of that part of Ignition!, they were interested because while its specific impulse might be crap, the equivalent volumetric efficiency (e.g. thrust per cubic inch of unburned propellants consumed) would be off the charts. The thinking being that size is more of a constraint than weight when putting missiles on a ship. Did I mention we're adjacent to two (2) day care centers?
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Hijo Del Helmsley posted:If you manage to power a rocket with Dimethylmercury, I'll be genuinely impressed. Geirskogul posted:Discussed in this thread (?), the Army tried to. Not quite; the original request was for dimethylmercury, but they ended up doing it with elemental mercury instead. ToxicFrog has a new favorite as of 20:15 on Jun 16, 2015 |
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ToxicFrog posted:Not quite; the original request was for dimethylmercury, but they ended up doing it with elemental mercury instead. Oh, well, ok, that makes it so much better.
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TheHomerTax posted:Oh, well, ok, that makes it so much better. It does. It really really does.
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I'd much rather have an elemental mercury rocket than a methylated mercury rocket. I mean no loving mercury at all would be best but where's the excitement in that?
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