CaptainStarwind Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 This subforum is kinda dead.... So yeah. I'm a college senior working towards getting my Ph.D in Chemistry. Ask me stuff if you want. Or not. I really don't care. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasqueradeOverture Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 Why the fuck can't I math? Also, can you break the following song down into a series of calculus equations? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainStarwind Posted November 29, 2016 Author Share Posted November 29, 2016 Why the fuck can't I math? Because you're being heavily oppressed by the bourgeoisie. Also, can you break the following song down into a series of calculus equations? In lieu of that, allow me to post some images expressing my dislike of calculus: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Gun Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 Man, calculus is awesome. Easily my favorite part of math. Differential equations, however, can eat several dicks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAC Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 Nah your all wrong, adding can suck all the dicks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainStarwind Posted November 29, 2016 Author Share Posted November 29, 2016 I was decent at Calculus like 3 years ago, but I never need to use it. Algebra is the most I need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasqueradeOverture Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 I can't even do long division anymore without a calculator. Then again; I art, not math. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainStarwind Posted November 29, 2016 Author Share Posted November 29, 2016 I can't even do long division anymore without a calculator. Then again; I art, not math. And I have the drawing ability of a Parkinson's patient during an earthquake, so it all evens out. I can draw carbon chains, though. Got that shit DOWN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HardcoreHunter Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 How often do you make meth, and how much are you selling it for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainStarwind Posted December 1, 2016 Author Share Posted December 1, 2016 How often do you make meth? I don't need to make any myself. My college town is unofficially considered the meth capital of central Pennsylvania. And how much are you selling it for? They never usually get past the cooking stage before their houses blow up and they end up looking like Jackson Pollock painted the sidewalk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HardcoreHunter Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 I'm guessing you're in State College, I'm in Pittsburgh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAC Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 Yay another PA person! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainStarwind Posted December 2, 2016 Author Share Posted December 2, 2016 I'm guessing you're in State College, I'm in Pittsburgh. More or less. One of my best friends is in Pittsburgh, in the Pitt pharma program. I nearly ended up going to Pitt but decided against it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HardcoreHunter Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 A friend of ours became a pharmacist, you can get a good job fast if you aren't tied down to a specific area. Crazy amounts of money, he is getting 90k a year, and after five he said something about it being raised to 135k a year. Right now he has been there for 3 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainStarwind Posted December 2, 2016 Author Share Posted December 2, 2016 A friend of ours became a pharmacist, you can get a good job fast if you aren't tied down to a specific area. Crazy amounts of money, he is getting 90k a year, and after five he said something about it being raised to 135k a year. Right now he has been there for 3 years. Yeah my friend says he won't have any problem finding a job once he graduates. I was considering pharmacy when I initially went to college, but decided against it at the end of my freshman year. My focus is inorganic chemistry now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasqueradeOverture Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 My focus is inorganic chemistry now. Uhh...that mean you create battery acid? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainStarwind Posted December 2, 2016 Author Share Posted December 2, 2016 Uhh...that mean you create battery acid? You mean like car battery acid? That's just sulfuric acid, so yeah I guess I could make that. Although it's used with such frequency that it's easier just to buy it. It's like $380 for half a liter of it, which in the long run isn't that expensive. This DOES remind me of the one time I accidentally made TNT in lab, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God-Says-No Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 did you get ever to work with dimethymercury? or methymercury? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainStarwind Posted January 30, 2017 Author Share Posted January 30, 2017 did you get ever to work with dimethymercury? or methymercury? You mean dimethylmercury and methylmercury? No, I can't say I have. The safety officer for our school is a real stickler for anything that might seem slightly dangerous, and pretty much doesn't let anybody order chemicals that sound like they might kill you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokeNirvash Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 What are your thoughts on civil engineers, be it the students themselves or the subject they study? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainStarwind Posted January 30, 2017 Author Share Posted January 30, 2017 What are your thoughts on civil engineers, be it the students themselves or the subject they study? Actually, up through my sophomore year of high school, I had wanted to go to college and study to be either a structural engineer or an architect. It wasn't until I took AP Chemistry that I became seriously interested in Chemistry and decided to go to college for it. As for my opinion on it, I believe that civil engineering as a subject is important. We live in a society dominated by artificial structures, be it structures for transportation (such as bridges or roads), structures for living (buildings), or other structures (dams, for example). In making these structures, there are so many things that have to be taken into account: What is the foundation like in the area? Is the area earthquake prone? Does the area flood easily? And then perhaps there are special considerations that one needs to abide by when building the structure: perhaps they want the structure to complement the natural landscape, so how do you build the structure to do that? All of these things are very important, and a slip up in even one area can have drastic consequences in the future (the New Orleans levees in 2005 come to mind). As such, I find civil engineering to be important. As for students? Harder to say. I haven't had much contact with Engineering or Physics students, as my school has two separate buildings for the sciences: Chemistry and Biology are in one building, while Math, Physics, and Engineering are in the other. From what contact I have had, they seem nice. I definitely don't have a beef against them or anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God-Says-No Posted January 31, 2017 Share Posted January 31, 2017 You mean dimethylmercury and methylmercury? No, I can't say I have. The safety officer for our school is a real stickler for anything that might seem slightly dangerous, and pretty much doesn't let anybody order chemicals that sound like they might kill you. I always forget that L its pretty fun stuff hella dangerous but it makes some neat stuff happen what do they let you do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainStarwind Posted January 31, 2017 Author Share Posted January 31, 2017 I always forget that L its pretty fun stuff hella dangerous but it makes some neat stuff happen what do they let you do Well the research I'm currently doing is mostly spectroscopy based, analyzing different things with LIBS. Before that I did organic synthesis work, which was okay, though a bit boring. My hopes for graduate school are that I can do Inorganic Synthesis; I took a couple labs while here for that and I loved it. What do they have us do? Well, the intro labs for inorganic are very theoretical now, or the professor just demonstrates the reaction for the class. I remember that we weren't allowed to do any reactions with white phosphorous because, A. It was "too dangerous" for sophomores to be handling, and B. They were nearly out and the safety officer wouldn't let us order any more. The organic labs were a bit better with actually doing lab work, though they never worked with anything that was flammable or could easily explode. The higher level labs were a bit better, though a lot of it had to be done in secret. I did a lab where I took an gas phase IR of acetylene, but we couldn't tell anyone we had acetylene because we weren't supposed to even have it. So all in all, the chem department at my school is kinda fucked up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FieryDoom Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 If I mix 20 kg of potassium chloride with 8 gallons of hot nitric acid, how many people can I dead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainStarwind Posted February 26, 2017 Author Share Posted February 26, 2017 If I mix 20 kg of potassium chloride with 8 gallons of hot nitric acid, how many people can I dead? What grade of nitric acid? I'm assuming off the top of my head that you mean 70%, since that's lab standard grade, but you also have fuming nitric acid which is 90%. Nitric acid is nasty stuff. I worked my sophomore year on a nitration mechanism involving nitric acid and sulfuric acid and it wasn't fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1pooh4u Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 when are you gonna start breaking bad ::spin:: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HardcoreHunter Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 Will it ever be cost effective to synthesize gold? From my understanding gold was created from star dust being compressed then expelled during a nova. A nova is essentially Nuclear fission, so knowing the elements that make up star dust, would it be possible to make gold, and at a cost efficient price? As well would the resulted gold be somewhat moot due to any lingering radioactive residue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Top Gun Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 Not remotely. You can definitely transmute gold atoms from lead (or more easily, bismuth) using a particle accelerator, but you'll literally produce no more than a handful, and probably won't even be able to pick out the non-radioactive isotope gold-197. This article cites a production cost of a quadrillion dollars per ounce. So yeah, go dig it up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainStarwind Posted May 19, 2017 Author Share Posted May 19, 2017 Not remotely. You can definitely transmute gold atoms from lead (or more easily, bismuth) using a particle accelerator, but you'll literally produce no more than a handful, and probably won't even be able to pick out the non-radioactive isotope gold-197. This article cites a production cost of a quadrillion dollars per ounce. So yeah, go dig it up. Pretty much this. Turning lead into gold is possible but is widely cost inefficient. And even if it could be done cost effectively, all that would do is drive the price of gold down significantly, at which point it would no longer be worth it. The price of lead would probably go up, though. But don't quote me on that; I know chemistry, not economics. Speaking of which, I graduated undergrad last Saturday, so I guess I'm just a chemist now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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