Crossposted at Dailykos.com Chirality comes from the Greek root ?????, meaning “hand”. Most people outside of us chemistry wanks do not know that many organic molecules have the property of “handedness”, meaning that they come in two varieties, a “right-handed” and a “left-handed” one. Actually, it is bit more complex, and this will become clear [...]
Crossposted at Dailykos.com Rhum, or rum, as it is now called, is yet another product devised by humans for getting altered. It is unique to sugar producing regions, and is made by a process very unlike that which is used for whiskey, at least at first.
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Crossposted at Dailykos.com The second installation did not go over very well, and I accept the blame for it. It was without structure, and this one will have a bit. This time there is a topic: petroleum. This is not to say that other questions are not welcome, but the focus of this post is [...]
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Crossposted at Dailykos.com Last time was fun for me, and I hope the readers as well. We will try another episode, to see if this is viable. Please consider this as an open thread for any and all questions related to science and technology. If I do not know an answer, I will say so [...]
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Crossposted at Dailykos.com Gases, like liquids are fluids, in that they have no definite shape, but take that shape of their container, be it a balloon, a pressure cylinder, or a gravity envelope. Unlike liquids, gases are not “condensed” in that their molecules have a much greater spacing than that of liquids or solids. This [...]
Helium is the second lightest element, having two protons and either one or two neutrons in the nucleus. It a noble gas, meaning that it does not form any compounds and is monatomic in the gaseous, liquid, and solid state. It is extremely rare in the atmosphere, because of its low mass and lack of [...]
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