Opened.
I got my degree in chemistry, but as life would have it, 90% of what I do is biology- and entomology-based with only basic bench-level chemistry skill needed.
We already had a Chemistry thread, it just wasn't active for a while now.
Personally, I started studying chemistry but I stopped when I couldn't deal with the labwork.
Lego-like modular components make building 3-D 'labs-on-a-chip' a snap
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.A while ago, I finished watching Breaking Bad (a great series, btw), and it got me wondering:
Is it possible to make medicine out of explosives?
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.Some explosives are medicine, if I am not mistaken — for instance, nitroglycerin is sometimes used as a heart medicine (in very small amounts, I imagine).
edited 23rd Sep '14 11:16:42 PM by Carciofus
But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.Yes, several compounds (such as the abovementioned nitroglycerine) can be both explosives and medicines.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanBut they're rare. Drug discovery chemist Derek Lowe reckons that these days regulatory bodies take a dim view of explosive medication and that nitroglycerin had to be grandfathered in as an exception.
Oh yeah, nitroglycerin, I remember that one.
So it's possible for something to be both medicine and explosive.
Now I have another question.
Is it possible to make a narcotics out of explosives?
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.Dinitrogen monoxide from ammonium nitrate. Also, ethanol from ethene.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanResearchers elucidate how a nitrogen-fixing enzyme also produces hydrocarbons
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.Researchers discover a way to tease oxygen molecules from carbon dioxide
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.Two Americans, one German win Chemistry Nobel for giving microscope sharper vision
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.How implausible would it be for a 19 year old, talented as that might person be in chemistry, to have enough chemical knowledge to comprehend a relatively simple recipe for a designer drug and successfully recreate it?
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.If there is a recipe, pretty plausible. Creating moderately complex chemicals what I did in college as part of the college courses (not drugs of course, but the difference doesn't matter) when I was 19.
edited 12th Oct '14 2:05:10 PM by SeptimusHeap
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanAh, I see.
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.Hell, quite a few highschool chemistry classes have synthesizing aspirin as a project.
That sounds neat!
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.Here's a not so fun joke about chemistry:
Step 1: Say there's an dihydrogen monoxide outbreak in a given area.
Step 2: Mention that said "chemical" is severely toxic.
Step 3: Enjoy the chaos as people Google search the term.
Step 4: Get called out on your joke.
Answer no master, never the slave Carry your dreams down into the grave Every heart, like every soul, equal to breakThat is so old, it's got a set of family albums the thickness of The Wheel Of Time in carbon-capture form.
Still works though
Oh really when?I'm an English major and even I wouldn't fall for that. Then again, with sufficient acting...
By the way, a random question.
In the context of chemistry, what does "changing property" entail?
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.Try telling that to Lee County
And a change in physical property is an change in the object's state of matter or appearance. Where an change in chemical property affects the composition of said object
edited 30th Apr '15 5:58:15 PM by RabidTanker
Answer no master, never the slave Carry your dreams down into the grave Every heart, like every soul, equal to break
Talk about chemistry here.
Because hey, we have a thread for physics and medicine, so this has been long time coming.
Out of the recent news, well, at least ones that I could understand, here's an NYT article on molecular compression(?). Quoting the article:
I don't understand the full implication of this, but that sounds interesting, all right.
I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.