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Texium
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Thanks, and not any that I can think of now. Looks good to me. Hopefully people will use it.
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The Volatile Chemist
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Yes definitely a single page. Suprisingly, it looks as school will be starting for me, I will have more time...
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Brain&Force
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Apparently, you have to be autoconfirmed in order to edit the Marketplace page, which sucks because there are probably going to be quite a few people
who register for the wiki just to advertise their stuff. zts16, is there any way you can add elementcollector1 to the autoconfirmed group?
At the end of the day, simulating atoms doesn't beat working with the real things...
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Texium
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I will not... My schedule is packed because I'm cramming a year and a half's worth of classes into one year. For the first couple weeks and
occasionally on the weekends I will probably be around, but not all that often other than that.
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Well, I think I may have a bit less time, as I'm heading to university in October, but I should still be able to edit the wiki and do what admins do.
Also, I'm going to mention the marketplace here so that I can gauge opinions. Nobody seems to read this thread...should I also post info in Reagents and Apparatus Acquisition as well?
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The Volatile Chemist
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In my opinion, yes. Also encourage people to write on their favorite procedures (possibly in our signatures...), maybe in a post to a topic where
you'd already have some comment to make. eg. If you complement someone on a way to calcinate a complex or something, add they should add their method
to the wiki.
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Brain&Force
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Great to see the nice flurry of editing on the wiki!
Please fill this up and vote for your favorites!
Also, who was that one guy who was recategorizing everything? Just curious.
[Brain&Force: fixed error in a hyperlink]
[Brain&Force: I hate smilies]
[Edited on 21.8.2014 by Brain&Force]
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The Volatile Chemist
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 rojects_for_the_beginning_chemist lol  I'll try to do a bit tonight.
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Quote: Originally posted by Praxichys  | IUPAC says "sulfur, aluminium, caesium"
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(chemistry)#Caesium_v_Cesium
ACS begs to differ, but hey... my country is one of three still using the silly English unit system. Call me a pushover but I tend to go with majority
vote.
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Ok quick question...I know that "caesium" is the preferred spelling, but even British English speakers don't use it. And unlike sulfur and aluminium, I would also think a foreign speaker is likely to spell it "cesium" rather than "caesium."
I'd like to hear any concurring or dissenting opinions.
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Zyklon-A
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I use and prefer "cesium". It's spelled how its pronounced.
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If anyone edits out my use of the word 'colour' I won't be happy haha
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Brain&Force
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What do you use, Tdep? Cesium or caesium?
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Knowing my spelling, probably czum.
But cesium.
Edit: just realised that joke won't make sense to you Americans because I say Zee and you say Zed.
Edit 2: my friend just angrily informed me it's the other way around, and apparently I'm meant to be the one saying zed.
I think I'm going to be deported now.
[Edited on 22-8-2014 by Tdep]
[Edited on 22-8-2014 by Tdep]
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I thought you narrated this video about TAZedP?
Zinc Permanganate Complex: http://youtu.be/jtGyug-S8uI
We use zee but Canadians use zed.
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Tdep
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Oh gosh I've just been proven wrong by myself. I don't know how to feel about this.
I'm siting here like a moron making sleeping noises.
Zzzzzz?
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The Volatile Chemist
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lol, funny conversation. What needs the most work on the wiki, guys?
And B&F, I must ask b/c I don't recognize the formula which is your mood... what is it?
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It's the volume of an n-sphere where n is the dimension, r is the radius, and eta is the n-sphere constant. WolframAlpha REALLY botches this one by
using pi instead (tau doesn't work here either!):
Note that eta is the measure of a right angle in radians. Also note that there are 2n right angles in an n-sphere (a circle, or 2-sphere,
has 4 right angles, a 3-sphere (just a sphere) has 8, etc.) So the right angle is what defines an n-sphere!
Anyway, what we need most is images. I've been sending U2Us to members who have some interesting images for use on the wiki. Follow my lead - if you
find any interesting images, ask if you can use them on the wiki. Once you secure permission, upload them.
Also, do you think we need a disclaimer page on the wiki? Saying things like how we don't support drug synthesis, bomb making, etc?
[edit] BBCode superscripts don't seem to be working properly. The proper expression is 2 to the n, not 2 times n
[Edited on 25.8.2014 by Brain&Force]
[Edited on 25.8.2014 by Brain&Force]
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I've added some pictures, and as I do more chemistry I'll document it all visually via the wiki. Should we start making more articles on chemical
processes, lab techniques, apparatus, etc.? I'm not the most experienced of us here, but things like how to conduct a simple distillation and such
aren't beyond me, and there are a million pieces of glassware to write about if anyone thinks those are important. Let me know what you all think.
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Texium
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| Quote: Originally posted by No Tears Only Dreams Now | | I've added some pictures, and as I do more chemistry I'll document it all visually via the wiki. Should we start making more articles on chemical
processes, lab techniques, apparatus, etc.? I'm not the most experienced of us here, but things like how to conduct a simple distillation and such
aren't beyond me, and there are a million pieces of glassware to write about if anyone thinks those are important. Let me know what you all think.
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Definitely. Even though we have an infinite amount of chemical compounds to write about, we can't neglect
everything else. Having pages for glassware would be awesome. We have one right now for general glassware, but more detailed pages for the more
complex types would be great to have.
Pages detailing processes and procedures would be great to have too. Having those would really make the wiki stand out.
Also, earlier I made a template called the unsatisfactory page template that can be put on pages that don't meet the requirements (like the ones for
hydrochloric and acetic acids, which are really messy since they were mostly pasted in from Wikipedia). It can be added like the stub template, but
with {{unsatisfactory}} instead of {{stub}}.
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Ha, I just went on the wiki and observed that the only articles that show up on the recent edits for today are picric acid and acetone peroxide...
somebody visiting the wiki for the first time today might get the wrong idea.
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Haha I was about to do an edit for MEKP... Maybe I should do a non energetic article first
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A lot of new home chemists begin because they want to make stuff blow up; I was one of them before I calmed down a bit. If anything I think that'll
help more people find the wiki through searching, even if they are trying to destroy government property with it
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| Quote: Originally posted by No Tears Only Dreams Now | | A lot of new home chemists begin because they want to make stuff blow up; I was one of them before I calmed down a bit. If anything I think that'll
help more people find the wiki through searching, even if they are trying to destroy government property with it |
Yeah, I currently have a friend who is
trying (painfully obviously) to leach off of my knowledge with very kewlish intentions. I told him that if he just wanted to make things go bewm he
could research it on his own. I'm hoping he might get past that point and start to become interested in a more broad section of chemistry.
As for myself, when it comes to energetics, I've made black powder, and that's about it. They've never been a huge draw for me. I got into chemistry
from a weird obsession with the periodic table that I've had my whole life that I finally decided to act upon about a year ago. I started element
collecting first, and then I got into chemistry from that.
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Brain&Force
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I wasn't ever really interested in explosives - exotic rocket propellants and simply burning things to make colors was more of my taste. I did enjoy
other uses of chemistry simultaneously, however.
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The Volatile Chemist
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I just liked the logical/thinking part. I didn't get into hands-on chemistry experimentation till a year or so ago.
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