RobertJackson58585858

johncarlosbaez, 4 days ago (edited 1 day ago) to random

If you could watch an individual water molecule, about once in 10 hours you'd see it do this!

As it bounces around, every so often it hits another water molecule hard enough enough for one to steal a hydrogen nucleus - that is, a proton - from the other!

The water molecule with the missing proton is called a hydroxide ion, OH⁻. The one with an extra proton is called a hydronium ion, H₃O⁺.

This process is called the 'autoionization' of water. Thanks to this, roughly one in ten million molecules in a glass of water are actually OH⁻ or H₃O⁺, not the H₂O you expect.

And this explains why protons can move through water much more easily than larger ions can. Let's watch how it works.

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RobertJackson58585858, 3 days ago to random

#SilentSunday

RobertJackson58585858, 4 days ago to UKpolitics

https://youtu.be/hTggFnpOHk4?si=YNnLXrY-uSX2rahH

The D Day Dodgers song. Justifiably sweary.

Rishi Sunak was just plain rude last week. And deliberately so.

Sunak shouldn't be called a D Day Dodger ... He hasn't earned it.

#UKPolitics

RobertJackson58585858, 5 days ago to random

I'll repeat for any who missed this morning ... the term D Day Dodger doesn't mean what you might think it means.

Rishi Sunak is definitely not one fit to be called a D Day Dodger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Day_Dodgers

RobertJackson58585858, 6 days ago to random

Five and a half years ago I posted this on Twitter.

Be under no illusion ... Rishi Sunak slipping out of the D Day memorial early will attract real anger from his own people.

(In my case Corbyn apparatchik Aaron Bastani had taken a pop at the British Legion a day or so before ... our stall was on Pershore High Street only a few yards from the British Legion stall. Just too embarrassing for words.)

RobertJackson58585858, 6 days ago to random

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Day_Dodgers?s=09

Don't start calling Rishi Sunak a D Day Dodger.

Just don't!

The term refers to the allied soldiers who'd fought their way up through Italy fighting often with reduced resources as preparations were made for the Normandy landings.

Call him what you like but Sunak is no D Day Dodger.

RobertJackson58585858, 6 days ago to random

I'm of an age to remember Michael Foot as Labour Leader being pilloried mercilessly in the press for what he wore at a November 11th Armistice ceremony at the Cenotaph.

At least he didn't s*d off like Prime Minister Sunak did yesterday.

RobertJackson58585858, 6 days ago to random

A little tale that the Tory MPs indulging in the "Chicken Run" to stand in what they think should be safe seats ... Somerset Maugham's short story.

Apols for the lousy cropping :((