some of these calculation ones might be wrong, but it's 4AM after all :p

Canas - about .48 grams worth
Davaca - My mistake on Thymine. But seriously, how would YOU describe nucleotides then? They're just 1/2 rings with nitrogen and shit embedded.
DrHood - ~1.6 M
Wedgeman - I'm only going to deal with the orbital question because the other one I don't happen to know. I think 3d(5) is more stable... but er. That was a good question - sticking with both electrons going into 3d
Waterbeast - sulfuric acid
DVsilverwing - I'm pretty sure uranium, but yeah, uncertainty.
Quagmire690 - any noble gas should be uber unreactive. Halogen gases like chlorine gas should be reactive (hydrogen gas too)... theres no "most reactive gas" because it depends what you're reacting it with. The longest chemical chain I'd imagine would be a huge piece of plastic, since they're polymers.

outside of new york city, new york is quite meh

Europe in general has most of the top 10 in my book.

At 8/6/09 05:29 PM, Prinzy2 wrote: I've heard of the term "Heavy water" and wiki'd it, but all I found was that it had more connective bonds?, please explain how that works and does anything good/bad happen...

It's H20 but the hydrogens are deuterium (has a neutron). I don't think it's too harmful, but it's fucking expensive. i dunno how/why you'd drink it

Npoe

It's not that intelligence is shunned as much as working you balls off for grades thing. People don't understand other people and what they value. If person A is a kid who wants to go to UC Berkeley to become a chemist, and person B doesn't want to go to college and just wants to have fun in life, it's both their choices that make them who they are, and yes a little bit of genetics. That won't stop person B from thinking weirdly of person A for raising their hand every day in chemistry class though.

Same goes for college, although people are much more individual which is nice.

if you end on good terms it could be resexing later (possibly?)

At 10/3/09 06:53 AM, Scarab wrote:

At 10/3/09 05:16 AM, Orange wrote: well with the current situation is like - if these are the best years of my life, I need a gun. NOW.

Honestly, I don't know what you should do. Have you studied the other school enough to be assured that things will be better for you?

Yes. I'm 100% sure I'd have a better time at new school.

Have you read up on the course itself at the other school? Its method of teaching might be drastically different (I'm not sure how often this happens in chemistry) to the place you're at now. If you're comfortable with the course itself now, that might be something to consider?

Chemistry has a more universal teaching style than another subject, say english for instance. Molecules are molecules. The current school just has a guy with powerpoint slides for 500 people, then a bunch of TAs walk around and stare at you till you get the answer in recitation. Nothing special.

You've touched on it, but why exactly are you feeling so down now?

I can give specifics, but I'll just give the biggest four. The social atmosphere, the factory-like education, the location, and the excessive diversity (like you can't go 10 feet without hearing chinese being spoken. I hate that.)

At 10/3/09 05:29 AM, Infuritaion wrote: How do you know that the new university will be better? Sure, new people and a new place, but its all in the attitude.

Like for me, back in high school, I could have gone to the best one around and still hated it. Now I'm in college and I've accepted the good and bad about it, and I love it.

I was kinda forced to go to this college by dad. He actually bribed me with a car to go here (which never happened).

But I wanted to go to a totally different location with a totally different school atmosphere. Beleive me I tried to have a good attitude. I did meet a bunch of new people, but I really dont like the student body here for the most part. Considering that the college I go to is rated #3 in the nation for depression by princeton review, I think it's safe to say it's not just me. Also, if you go to a college reviews site you'll see some hilariously bad reviews about my school.

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/Department s/College/?article=TPRLeastHappy2010

Cmon that's quite pathetic.

Oh thank god. So when I sexed maximus it wasn't cheating!

I think I'd be legitimately happy in the uk
ah if only.

well with the current situation is like - if these are the best years of my life, I need a gun. NOW.

However, you're right with the money. It's a hard call.

I'm not enjoying my current university at all (I'm actually more miserable than I've ever been). It's not the subject material - it's just the school. I've got 2.5 years left to go before I get my bachelors in chemistry, and I've already been accepted into an alternative school for a spring transfer. However, transfering to the university I want to go to will require ~15,000$ extra a year (because of out-of-state tuition). Do you think it's worth it to go into some debt for my happiness?

You might say its a no brainer, but I've also got graduate school costs to come later.

While all this is true, drugs let you experience a new state of mind. But careful kids - don't be ODing and dying on me!

Okay uh

The force to move anything has to come from somewhere. Okay, so energy and matter are never destroyed, but they can be converted into one another via nuclear reactions and the like.

The law is stated kinda weird.

Whatever fuck this I'm a chem major. The thing is though, that the entropy of the universe always increases.

females should have a barr body in their cells. I guess they just have to genetically test for that (I have no idea what the procedure for that is though).

An easier test is to put a box of kittens on one side of him/her and a box of firearms and porno mags on the other. The side he/she goes to determines gender.

At 8/19/09 09:41 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote:

God no :p

Naw, I'm at Birmingham Uni, so I live down in Selly Oak.

But I'm back home with my parents out of term-time, so down in London at the moment.

I have no idea what any of that is, but perhaps!

Pm me your numbah?

Yup.

At 8/19/09 09:10 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: wanna meet up?

Kinda doubt I'm going to birmingham actually

blame my lack of free time and train ticket prices

Brb America, spending a week and a half in England!

If any of your brits see a random American guy with stab wounds that looks like he might be from newgrounds, wave and say "sup brian!"

it could be worse. I have to say, a gore fetish or pedophilia orwhatever would be much worse.

haha. Jacking it to furry pictures harms nobody.

the best way to move on from anything is to move out (of the town)

Trigger.

Bear.

Fang.

Cerebus.

Maximus.

Baron Von (something)

Flynn.

Sticker.

Jack.

Deathbone.

Reaper.

At 8/6/09 04:41 AM, GayDorf wrote:

At 8/6/09 04:36 AM, iscrulz wrote: Time to get my hands on some NX nerve agent and Botulin and unleash it at the next Democratic National Convention. Or my school which ever one I hate.

Yo yo yo the FBI monitors that shit. You say something like that and they're gonna be at your fuckin' doorstep mayn, I shit you not. Its happened on this site before, when that dude posted he was going to kill his sister, and the authorities tracked him down. Don't be a faggothead, buddy, be a smarthead.

Yeah - NG gets enough bad attention from the FBI from the loli hentai and shit. Lmao.

It's much easier to make... (cough) A (cough) -nthrax.

JUST KIDDING FBI. I JUST WANT TO CURE DISEASES. I DON'T INTEND TO HARM ANYONE.

At 8/6/09 03:52 AM, PhobOuranos wrote:

At 8/6/09 03:33 AM, CapnCrunchDaPimp wrote: What is the deadliest chemical that is known to man and why? I've always wondered this, but I think it might be Mercury. That shit can blind you dawg.

My vote lies with Uranium and Plutonium.

Ka-Boom.

but uranium and plutonium are lame as chemicals :P

I would be totally fine with holding a ball of uranium. It's not going to hurt you. Holding a "ball" of NX gas however, would fuck you up!

But yeah, thanks to physics uranium and plutonium became epic. Not because of their chemical properties though.

At 8/6/09 03:51 AM, Funzo123 wrote: Ok, see if you can get this one.
The acacia bark contains the drug DMT.
You are supposed to extract the dmt. what chemicals would you use?

I don't know. Lyse and precipitate everything except DMT seems to be the only real solution to this. DMT ftw though =)

At 8/6/09 03:54 AM, Leidolfr wrote: How would you synthesise chromyl chloride (CrO2Cl2)? What precautions might you take? Is it likely to be a liquid or a solid at ordinary temperatures, and what is its likely colour?

I don't know exactly how you would make that. It doesn't look easy!

It'd probably be solid by itself, but you'd probably have to create that in a solution. As for color, you'd have to determine exactly how much energy there are between the electron levels and calculate the amount of energy a photon would have from converting that energy... it's not something you can know off the top of your head. My guess is green though because of the 2 Cls.

At 8/6/09 03:25 AM, andycastaneda wrote: what really happens when you mix bleach and ammonia?

KOTH

Bleach is a vague term. You can use a variety of chemicals as bleach.

At 8/6/09 03:33 AM, CapnCrunchDaPimp wrote: What is the deadliest chemical that is known to man and why? I've always wondered this, but I think it might be Mercury. That shit can blind you dawg.

I'm pretty sure its NX nerve agent. Mercury really isn't that bad. Yes, it'll kill you, but it's pretty avoidable. NX however will jump right into your nerves and kick your ass from the inside out!

Botulin is also the most potent toxin ever. I think.

At 8/6/09 03:23 AM, adio0205 wrote: Who made up the word chemistry?

I don't know who coined the term, but it's a derivative of the word Alchemy. New scientists in the enlightenment era didn't want to be associated with the BS behind Alchemy, so they made a new name. Something like that.

At 8/6/09 03:24 AM, satanbrain wrote: chemical composition of nucleotides.

Carbon rings with the occasional nitrogen interrupt, depending on the nucleotide, and oxygen bonded to some parts of the various rings. There's also hydrogens attached all over the place to the structure. Adenine and Thymine I believe have two rings. Overall, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Hydrogen. DNA adds phosphate and deoxyribose sugars to the mix.

At 8/6/09 03:24 AM, explodingbunnies wrote: a few questions...

1. why are you a chemist?

Because it's got applications in pretty much every field of industry/science.

2. why ARENT you a physicist?

The short answer - too much math. Also I like biology, which chemistry works better with.

3. what is the nest chemical of them all?

The best chemical... that's a really hard one. Nitric acid is pretty nifty. I like it.

At 8/6/09 03:24 AM, GayDorf wrote: Which element in the periodic table has the largest radius for its valence electron shell?

I'm pretty sure it's Francium (excluding the unstable atomic nuclei).

As a chemistry major, I'm eager to test my knowledge all the time. Go ahead - shoot! Although be sure not to ask questions about physics or biology. I'm aware chemistry bridges the gap between the two in some instances, but yeah I probably won't know the answer if you ask me about wave functions with electrons.

I'm pretty sure department of defense > coppers