Sciencemadness Discussion Board

The Sciencemadness Discussion Board is an online forum dedicated to amateur chemistry. It was started by the user Polverone on 20 May 2002 and has been active ever since then.

Subfora

Chemistry in General

This is where most forum discussion takes place. Here, topics in inorganic chemistry are discussed.

Organic Chemistry

Any discussions involving organic chemistry, including organic synthesis, take place here.

Reagents and Apparatus Acquisition

This is where finding sources of lab materials is done. Occasionally, trades may take place here, and offers may be promoted.

Beginnings

Absolute beginning chemistry subjects, including help with basic chemistry, are discussed here. Note that you must demonstrate some sort of effort before posting here for help - do not copy and paste textbook questions here.

Miscellaneous

This section is dedicated to all other forms of mad science discussion, including physics, biology, mathematics, metallurgy, element collecting, radioactive materials, and electronics. There is also a "Pretty Pictures" thread for posting lab photos, and a "Short Questions" thread for asking questions that aren't worthy of starting a whole new thread.

References

Request or supply references here. This forum is restricted, and access must be asked of an administrator (Polverone, woelen or Bert).

Forum Matters

Discuss any forum policy, features and updates here.

Legal and Societal Issues

About any legal or social difficulties or issues with hobby chemistry.

Whimsy

About anything and everything. This forum is restricted, and access must be asked of an administrator (Polverone, woelen or Bert).

Detritus

Topics that have absolutely no use, flame wars, and other crap is dropped here. This forum cannot be posted in but is free to browse for your amusement.

Notable members

Polverone

Polverone, along with madscientist, founded the Sciencemadness Discussion Board on 20 May 2002. He is currently a Super Administrator and does most forum tasks, such as making backups and upgrading the server.

woelen

woelen is a forum administrator who also runs a science and mathematics website, linked here. He often posts quite complex experiments and logs them on his website.

Bert

Bert is the newest moderator and has been active for 10 years on the forums, specializing in energetic materials.

blogfast25

blogfast25 holds the record for most posts on the forum and runs a business, Oxford ChemServe.

MrHomeScientist

MrHomeScientist runs a blog and a popular YouTube channel about chemistry. One of his specialties is thermites.

Gooferking Science

Gooferking Science runs a YouTube channel and has a website about science.

TheChemiKid

TheChemiKid runs a YouTube channel about chemistry.

Tdep

Tdep runs a kewlish but fun YouTube channel, Explosionsandfire, with his friends.

Praxichys (formerly DougTheMapper)

Praxichys runs a YouTube channel about chemistry (the old one, zhmapper, is here) and has an extensive home lab.

zts16

zts16 has been a long-time forum member and community mentor and, more recently, a moderator, and is the founder of this wiki and its predecessor.

Amos

Amos is a wiki administrator and produced a large percentage of the articles found on the wiki today, when it was still hosted on wikia.

Brain&Force

Brain&Force is a wiki administrator.

arkoma

Because everyone loves the forum redneck. He has a personal YouTube channel.

elementcollector1

As the name states, obsessed with element collecting. Ask me of nothing else.