• Re: water vapour pressure

    Updated: 2012-08-31 16:17:56
    Quote from: kapital on Yesterday at 08:42:41 AMWhy is this not always achieved?As any dynamic process it is achievable as long as you give it sufficient time. Depends on the size of vessel, it can take as little as few seconds to achieve 100% Relative humidity. 

  • Chemistry in its element – lactic acid

    Updated: 2012-08-29 12:00:22
    Feel the burn! But what’s behind that feeling when your muscles ache during exercise? And what’s it got to do with yogurt?? Find out about lactic acid in this week’s Chemistry in its element podcast.

  • 7800 new natural product compounds in ChemSpider

    Updated: 2012-08-29 01:27:00
    Do you know about Natural Product Updates? Natural Product Updates (NPU) gives you the molecules involved in key developments in natural product chemistry. Thanks to our work in interpreting what chemists mean, not just what chemists draw, ChemSpider now links to NPU’s data for 13800 natural products since 2005, of which 7800 are brand new [...]

  • CLT #46: The Lab Coat Rack

    Updated: 2012-08-28 12:40:21
    Welcome back to CLT! See more CLT humor via PhD Comics Enjoy!

  • CLT #45: The P-Block

    Updated: 2012-08-21 14:05:52
    Welcome back to CLT! See more CLT humor via Nearing Zero Enjoy!

  • Red blood cells converted into chemical sensors

    Updated: 2012-08-20 19:37:10

  • Chemistry in its element – uranium hexafluoride

    Updated: 2012-08-16 11:10:10
    Do you long to be a superpower? Do your friends on the world stage look down on your military strength? Does your lack of second strike capability make you feel inadequate? You need a nuclear deterrent. Better get yourself some uranium hexafluoride and this week’s Chemistry in its element podcast.

  • CLT #44: Funding an Alchemy Lab

    Updated: 2012-08-14 14:54:45
    Welcome back to CLT! See more CLT humor via Science Cartoons Plus Enjoy!

  • Good science requires testing

    Updated: 2012-08-12 15:09:26
    I found this cartoon over at High Power Rocketry. [There was no citation for the art work.]

  • General remarks

    Updated: 2012-08-08 20:16:47
    I wish to make a few remarks on current news items of interest. Country singer Randy Travis was found in a ditch in north Texas allegedly drunk, naked, and belligerent following an apparent one car accident.  Crimony! It’s that awful Nashville music that he sings. If I sang that twangy, mornful, depressing stuff all the [...]

  • Thoughts on crystals, symmetry, and perfection

    Updated: 2012-08-08 03:54:46
    Nothing too unusual here. Just some bismuth crystals sitting on my desk. A metallurgist friend died recently and his family passed along some of his samples to me. Virg was a great guy. He knew how to conduct himself with decorum like a civilized human being. I don’t confer this praise on everyone. I think many [...]

  • Curiosity on Mars

    Updated: 2012-08-07 14:21:57
    Photo of Curiosity during descent phase, taken from orbit. This shot is amazing all by itself. Curiosity is powered by a Pu-238 oxide thermoelectric generator. The Multi-Mission Radiosiotope Thermoelectric Generator, MMRTG, has an output of 2000 watts thermal and 100-120 watts electric. The MMRTG unit sits in the aft end of the rover enclosed by [...]

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