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Brain&Force
Hazard to Lanthanides
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Registered: 13-11-2013
Location: UW-Madison
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NurdRage and MrHomeScientist. But Explosionsandfire (Tdep) was a big factor as well.
At the end of the day, simulating atoms doesn't beat working with the real things...
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The Volatile Chemist
International Hazard
Posts: 1981
Registered: 22-3-2014
Location: 'Stil' in the lab...
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I used to search for home chemistry sites, but there didt seem to be many. First I ran into The Home Scientistt's vids. and blog, and he reffered me
here. When I checked it out, it semmed old, unused, and scetchy. Then I ran into Bromic's site, Tim's site, and Woelen's site. I e-mailed all three
and we chatted for a while. They alll reccomended this site. I finally fell in wwhen I had a question about double salts vs. complexes, and didn't
want to bother anyone by emailing them anymore. I probably was the most reluctant to join, but now this is my 400th post!
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Tdep
National Hazard
Posts: 519
Registered: 31-1-2013
Location: Laser broken since Feb 2020 lol
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Mood: PhD is done! It isn't good but it's over lol
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I was doing a project on making sodium/potassium metal at home for my final year of highschool.
Thinking I would get just a small amount of research into this, I stumbled onto this site where there was pages and pages of speculation and
photographs and research and I was blown away that there were so many people who weren't just speculating the possible but actually going out and
testing it.
I had to stop the project for legal reasons (no one else had this issue with their projects, but I ran into legal issues on 4 separate ideas!) but
i've been on this site ever since.
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The Volatile Chemist
International Hazard
Posts: 1981
Registered: 22-3-2014
Location: 'Stil' in the lab...
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That's great Tdep. The resources here are amazing!
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woelen
Super Administrator
Posts: 8014
Registered: 20-8-2005
Location: Netherlands
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I was a member on a dutch chemistry forum (chemixtry.org) which now does not exist anymore (now we have amateurchemie.nl). One of the members from
that forum was a member on sciencemadness as well (Taaie-Neuskoek) and he told me about sciencemadness. I checked out and since then (almost 10 years
ago) I am an enthusiastic member of sciencemadness. Unfortunately Taaie-Neuskoek quit his hobby of home chemistry (he gave me quite a few of his
chemicals) and also disappeared from the forums.
[Edited on 5-7-14 by woelen]
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The Volatile Chemist
International Hazard
Posts: 1981
Registered: 22-3-2014
Location: 'Stil' in the lab...
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That's too bad. Did you know him personally?
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woelen
Super Administrator
Posts: 8014
Registered: 20-8-2005
Location: Netherlands
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I met him personally a few times. He did not have any problems, he just quit doing home chemistry.
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arkoma
Redneck Overlord
Posts: 1761
Registered: 3-2-2014
Location: On a Big Blue Marble hurtling through space
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Mood: украї́нська
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I was looking for info relating to a friend of mines schemes to electrolytically recover gold; got "sucked in" here, could give a damn about
electrolytic gold now and eyeball every single plant i walk by now........
Since I joined, I've been blessed with tons of quality info, real lab gear, and a daggum new camera w00t w00t
"We believe the knowledge and cultural heritage of mankind should be accessible to all people around the world, regardless of their wealth, social
status, nationality, citizenship, etc" z-lib
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prof_genius
Hazard to Others
Posts: 147
Registered: 15-5-2013
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I was browsing for chemistry info and found this forum, I new about this forum for months before I made an account.
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Trevor9424
Harmless
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Registered: 13-5-2016
Location: United States
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I discovered that this forum existed after trying to research how to obtain hydrochloric and sulfuric acid without having to purchase it. After a week
or two of digging through threads here, I decided to join.
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diddi
National Hazard
Posts: 723
Registered: 23-9-2014
Location: Victoria, Australia
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I was googling chemistry of minerals, from memory... and curse you all, after rekindling my interest in the area I have spent bucket loads on
glassware and new chems etc
Beginning construction of periodic table display
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j_sum1
Administrator
Posts: 6322
Registered: 4-10-2014
Location: At home
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Mood: Most of the ducks are in a row
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I blame MrHomeScientist. I found his YT channel looking for thermites. I was toying with the idea of building an element collection and had made a
modest start. I had a couple of interactions on his blog and then read a link that took me here. Lurked for a month and then dived in (courtesy of
some questions I had on a lanthanum product that I spotted OTC.)
Some 2000 posts later and I think I qualify as hooked. (And a whole lot more knowledgeable.)
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aga
Forum Drunkard
Posts: 7030
Registered: 25-3-2014
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I was assigned to sciencemadness by the regional commander.
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BromicAcid
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Registered: 13-7-2003
Location: Wisconsin
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Old, but gives you a glimpse of the old-timers:
https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=86...
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Sulaiman
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Registered: 8-2-2015
Location: 3rd rock from the sun
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My main hobby interest was electronics,
I was slowly designing/building a ssb amateur radio transceiver in a 19" rack,
so slowly that components were becoming obsolete during the build,
and the copper cladding of my plain double-sided copper clad boards was corroding,
so just over two years ago I did a bit of research on tin plating,
now I too am trapped here 
I really should get around to tin plating those boards one day
[Edited on 30-5-2016 by Sulaiman]
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100PercentChemistry
Hazard to Others
Posts: 117
Registered: 21-8-2015
Location: On the island of stability
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Saw someone on YouTube talking about it. Whenever I search xyz synthesis this comes up.
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The Volatile Chemist
International Hazard
Posts: 1981
Registered: 22-3-2014
Location: 'Stil' in the lab...
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Mood: Copious
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Interesting 'old timer' forum. Wish it was still so much a balls-to-the-walls forum. Perhaps the mods should take to kicking out people who don't
contribute hard work. I'd be fine getting kicked out just to have a higher
quality forum to read from...
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karlos³
International Hazard
Posts: 1520
Registered: 10-1-2011
Location: yes!
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Mood: oxazolidinic 8)
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For me, it was nearly identical to woelens coming, except that it was not "chemixtry.org", but instead for me it was one of the quality chemistry
boards in my country, "lambdasyn.org", where someone was also a member here which made me come and check this forum out.
I was very impressed with it and did not build up the courage to post here(mainly because I thought my english will be bad for native speakers...) for
over two years, but finally did it and never had any regrest :-)
Do not take this as an offense, but, how naive I had been, to think the ones who are only speaking english must be the most eloquent and
well-articulated of all english speaking people :-D
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The Volatile Chemist
International Hazard
Posts: 1981
Registered: 22-3-2014
Location: 'Stil' in the lab...
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Quote: Originally posted by karlos³  | For me, it was nearly identical to woelens coming, except that it was not "chemixtry.org", but instead for me it was one of the quality chemistry
boards in my country, "lambdasyn.org", where someone was also a member here which made me come and check this forum out.
I was very impressed with it and did not build up the courage to post here(mainly because I thought my english will be bad for native speakers...) for
over two years, but finally did it and never had any regrest :-)
Do not take this as an offense, but, how naive I had been, to think the ones who are only speaking english must be the most eloquent and
well-articulated of all english speaking people :-D |
Wow, that's quite the site. There are 5 German chem forums to every English one....makes me want to learn German more. That site is really nice.
L-Arabinose from Acacia Gum?! Wow, great site.
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aga
Forum Drunkard
Posts: 7030
Registered: 25-3-2014
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This forum would be Less without you.
You under-value yourself and your presence here.
Edit:
... and your future posts about your Chemistry exploits will certainly make for good reading.
[Edited on 3-6-2016 by aga]
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APO
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Posts: 627
Registered: 28-12-2012
Location: China Lake
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Back in 2012, when I was 12 LOL, I would ask NurdRage about certain reactions; he politely referred me here.
Isolation of alkali metals was one of the very first things that interested me a lot.
"Damn it George! I told you not to drop me!"
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pepe
Harmless
Posts: 35
Registered: 5-6-2016
Location: Memeisland
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I honestly cant say when I found SM. In high school I was a terrible student of chemistry (something I look back on now with dissapointment) but
around senior year I really developed my interest in it. This would be 2011. In my research I would often be referred here but didnt really get into
the forum or keep it bookmarked until last year.
Its one of those sites that I have had a long relationship with but only really started being active on (not in the posting sense but more reading
full threads and the like) for a short while.
To be honest I am kind of a forum junky. A good forum with intelligent people working towards something rather than detracting is one of the rarest
most fantastic finds one can have. I have been a part of so many forums and a lot of them fail because people just want to shitpost. That is one thing
I love about here is that you all have a good time but generally keep it on topic and not just posting nonsensical bs.
Sorry for the long post detailing my love of forums. I just really love this forum!
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j_sum1
Administrator
Posts: 6322
Registered: 4-10-2014
Location: At home
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Mood: Most of the ducks are in a row
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Have you had a previous incarnation here pepe? You have a post count of 3.
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Geocachmaster
Hazard to Others
Posts: 146
Registered: 5-3-2016
Location: Maine, USA
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Mood: Corroded, just like my spatulas
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I first discovered SM when I was looking for ways to make hydrochloric, sulfuric, and nitric acid, just for fun. I found some cool forums and SM
became a goto for my basic chemistry questions. After a few months I decided to join so I could give my 2 cents. Then I forgot about it for a while
and just today I started again.
[Edited on 6/6/2016 by Geocachmaster]
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pepe
Harmless
Posts: 35
Registered: 5-6-2016
Location: Memeisland
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I did but I forgot the username and email. I hadnt posted from it much. It was probably from when I first found the site so its been years. Plus back
then I didnt have any labware or anything "fun" so research was more my thing. I am usually content lurking but I have started wanting to get involved
in discussion rather than just reading. Now that I have a small lab going I am definitely going to be more involved. Kinda disappointing I was too
late to join in on the "Lab from 5 OTC items" challenge.
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