becausechemistry

Ah, it’s fine. RAM’s cheap.

Wait, what now? Oh. Oh dear.

We’re ranking danger here. I’d much rather be in the room with dilute peroxide and vinegar than with chloramine or chlorine.

The dose makes the poison. At the concentrations you’d get from household precursors, it would be fine.

Now, take glacial acetic acid and treat it with high-concentration peroxide? Now you’ve got something there. But most people don’t have easy access to either.

Chloroform is the third most dangerous thing on that list.

I understand you’re not coming from a place of malice. But consider that not understanding why something is important is not a great reason to consider it unimportant if, nearly universally, experts consider it important.

dorks

Some of us use the Kelvin scale on a nearly daily basis in our jobs that primarily focus on sweating the small details.

This image is a reference to things like this, where you send dry (containing low water content) solvent through a column of activated alumina to make it even more dry.

It doesn’t really work as well with some solvents. The one I used in grad school had DCM, toluene, THF, and acetonitrile. If we needed dry DMSO, DMF, DMAc, acetone, MEK, or alcohols they had to come from a sealed bottle.

Same problem as in 2016. Everyone assumed they’d beat Trump. Their main opposition would be in the primaries, because nobody would really vote for him, right?

Wrong, twice. And as bad as the first term felt, this one has been so much more catastrophic.

I am once again begging people to not post headlines that start with “Trump, 79,” that doesn’t end with. Well. You know.

Lol good luck getting boomers to look at grey text on light grey backgrounds

I used to work at IBM. This guy is a classic case of manager brainrot and has filled the top few tiers of the company with the same. The only reason they make money is the rank and file know how to feed them trendy bullshit that makes them feel smart, which happens to also be a good way of separating other companies’ dumb C-suite types from their money.

But even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while.

Well, first it’s fire.