Scientists have produced an oxide glass with unprecedented toughness. Under high pressures and temperatures, they succeeded in paracrystallizing an aluminosilicate glass: The resulting crystal-like structures cause the glass to withstand very high stresses and are retained under ambient conditions.
Supermarket AI Meal Planner App Suggests #Recipe That Would Create Chlorine Gas as "the perfect nonalcoholic beverage to quench your thirst and refresh your senses. Serve chilled and enjoy the refreshing fragrance"
TIL you can literally drink pure Phosphoric Acid and it wont destroy your mouth. I mean i knew it wasnt the strongest of acids but I didnt realize how weak it was.
I found this out because a vitamin I bought is 95% water and 5% pure phosphoric acid. i put a few drops out and let the water evaporate then licked it and to my surprise it was tart but didnt burn. Should have been close to 85% pure after the bulk of the water evaporated.
Some of the most eminent scientific women. Top row, lefth to right: Émilie du Châtelet, Ada Lovelace, Maria Mitchell, Elisabetha Koopman Hevelius, Laura Bassi, Marie Curie. Bottow row, left to right: Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Rosalind Franklin, Hedy Lamarr, Jane Goodall, Katherine Johnson, Lise Meitner.
He is most noted for his contribution to molecular theory now known as Avogadro's law, which states that equal volumes of gases under the same conditions of temperature and pressure will contain equal numbers of molecules. In tribute to him, the ratio of the number of elementary entities in a substance to its amount of substance, 6.02214076×10^23 mol−1, is known as the Avogadro constant. via @wikipedia
When the ratio of carbon-dioxide and methane increases in the atmosphere, does that happen at the cost of the ratio of oxygen, or is it spread out across all the atmospheric components?
This is part of the 2nd paragraph and keeps escalating each new paragraph
“I mean, this was definitely not planned. It was just supposed to be the removal of these shelves full of strange-sounding names, and so I’m sorry for whatever damage they’ve had and sorry they had to be evacuated,” https://ksltv.com/639989/holladay-homeowner-apologizes-to-neighbors-for-home-explosion/ #chemistry
Lets talk about chirality. And what those asteroid samples could teach us.
Chirality is the "handedness" of molecules. This is a big deal in #astrobiology
If you have a central atom of a tetrahedron and four different things poking out of it, there are two possible orientations.
(Try this with colored gumdrops. Geologists may get to lick rocks, but chemists get to eat their gumdrop models.)
Totally random request but I feel like this is probably the right place for this.
-I'm looking for a killer DIY home made cleaner that makes chemical sense. I've been using a great mix of isopropyl/dish soap /washing soda/water that works great in my bathroom. But I need something that doesn't leave a white residue for the kitchen. Same recipe minus washing soda? I'm going to use it for counter tops etc #cleaning#chemistry#biochemistry#DIY#InteriorDesign#lifestyle
I don't quite understand how humans-us humans get so tripped up by paradoxes.
Life is a paradox. 👩🔬 👨🎤
Hydrogen and oxygen are 2 if the major building blocks for life, yet are incredibly dangerous to it.
Does the Hindenburg ring a bell? Now oxygen. That's the stuff of life, right? Let me introduce you a mortal enemy of mine. It's formed by the interaction of metal with oxygen.
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Rust!
Don't even get me started on drownings & fatal water intoxication!
You know what I think? I don't think that paradoxes exist. What we preceive as aparadox is just at the intersection #nexus of 2 different paradigms.
Neither of which, when separated, fully explain the other's plane.
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It's all one thing?
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Why does silicone have this confusing name? Turns out "silicone" is short for silicoketone. There are silicon atoms in the compound but it is very far from being a chemical element.
"We have discovered that hard, electrical conductors (e.g., metals or graphite) can be adhered to soft, aqueous materials (e.g., hydrogels, fruit, or animal tissue) without the use of an adhesive. The adhesion is induced by a low DC electric field."
I can see this being quite useful for possibly attaching imaging equipment or electrodes for neural recordings.
Happy birthday to chemistry trailblazer Marie-Anne Paulze Lavoisier (20 January 1758 – 10 February 1836), wife and collaborator of French scientist Antoine Lavoisier (26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794).
The Lavoisiers, working closely together, modernized and quantified chemistry and the scientific method, recognized and named oxygen and hydrogen, explained the role that oxygen plays in combustion, 🧵1/n
This weeks #ChemSciPicks is a fantastic Edge article from Charlotte Deane et al., (University of Oxford).
This Edge article reports PoseBusters, a Python package that performs a series of standard quality checks using the well-established cheminformatics toolkit RDKit.
For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 2, #scientist Kathleen Lonsdale DBE FRS (née Yardley, 1903-1971) who solved the longstanding #chemistry conundrum of the shape of benzene. Here with her drawing of electron density for hexachlorobenzene (green) & model of hexamethylbenzene explore shape in different forms. Her husband said, “Before prison it might have bothered her to go to Buckingham Palace. Afterwards, Holloway or Buckingham Palace were all the same.” 🧵1 #womenInSTEM#linocut#printmaking#histstm
"MIT chemical engineers have devised an efficient way to convert carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide, a chemical precursor that can be used to generate useful compounds such as ethanol and other fuels."
Some egregious #AI art is now appearing in figures of peer-reviewed papers. But let’s take a moment to remember that #chemistry table of contents (TOC) graphics have always been completely unhinged!
These are all from the TOC graphics of real peer-reviewed papers in legit journals, most preceding the current AI hype cycle.
Scientists Invent New Glass With Supreme Toughness (scitechdaily.com)
Scientists have produced an oxide glass with unprecedented toughness. Under high pressures and temperatures, they succeeded in paracrystallizing an aluminosilicate glass: The resulting crystal-like structures cause the glass to withstand very high stresses and are retained under ambient conditions.