10-Year-Old Accidentally Creates New Molecule in Her Science Class
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Recreated by yours truly.[/QUOTE]
Can you make the picture not be of "that cat" proportions?
[QUOTE=Hidole555;34559566]Can you make the picture not be of "that cat" proportions?[/QUOTE]
Wow, did not realise the image was that huge because I uploaded straight from my phone, and I can't edit it properly.
[editline]5th February 2012[/editline]
dammit its sideways. and im posting from Norway too apparently
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[QUOTE=gamerman345;34559772]What the hell do we pay "professional" scientists for?[/QUOTE]
Researching what we pay them to research.
[QUOTE=gamerman345;34559772]What the hell do we pay "professional" scientists for?[/QUOTE]
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I bet she learned how to make it in her parents' meth lab. :v:
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We pay scientists to cause resonance cascades?
Or maybe to play Half-Life 1
Nice, hopefully the conditions to create the molecule can be created in a feasible environment.
Woah, children learning about [I]molecules n' shit[/I] in fifth grade?
I'm in highschool and I still don't understand what that's all about.
[QUOTE=latin_geek;34560069]Woah, children learning about [I]molecules n' shit[/I] in fifth grade?
I'm in highschool and I still don't understand what that's all about.[/QUOTE]
education in the US is much more localized. there's no set in stone national curriculum everyone follows. her school district must have had a more "accelerated" curriculum than others.
I didn't even get science when I was 10. I do now, but not with molecules and all that jazz, just boring stuff like the human body.
So if I slap 100000 balls together, can I say I discovered a "possible protein" and get into the news?
Fuck yeah Kansas City
[QUOTE=Kendra;34560585]So if I slap 100000 balls together, can I say I discovered a "possible protein" and get into the news?[/QUOTE]
No, but you will get a bunch of invitations to do gay pornography.
Looks like someone has been playing SpaceChem.
First time I would ever want to live in America, where I live we dont do this science shit. We hardly learn anything thats useful to me in science, meanwhile some kids in grade 5 are making new chemicals :v:
[QUOTE=supersoldier58;34560716]First time I would ever want to live in America, where I live we dont do this science shit. We hardly learn anything thats useful to me in science, meanwhile some kids in grade 5 are making new chemicals :v:[/QUOTE]
yeah in canada we have no science
only lumberjack class
[QUOTE=supersoldier58;34560716]First time I would ever want to live in America, where I live we dont do this science shit. We hardly learn anything thats useful to me in science, meanwhile some kids in grade 5 are making new chemicals :v:[/QUOTE]
I'm in an undergraduate program focusing on Synthetic Maple Syrup Synthesis
[QUOTE=extremist18;34560747]I'm in an undergraduate program focusing on Synthetic Maple Syrup Synthesis[/QUOTE]
Good, we need the next generation to work towards affordable and sustainable syrup supplies or my country might just have to invade
Dogsledding 101
If we'd done stuff like this when I was 10 I might have been a bit more interested in chemistry, instead all we did was label parts of flowers.
[QUOTE=Callius;34559179]I'm not that knowledgeable on chemistry but isn't coming up with new chemical structures not that hard? I thought it was synthesizing and producing them/finding a use for them.[/QUOTE]
Not far off, they are continuously planning out the structure to new chemicals, the problem is they tend to be stupidly over complex and if actually synthesized, they'd be unstable as fuck.
Most simple structures are already discovered, named and produced, this really is just a one off thing that she's found but in the end, you can take the structure of any chemical, rearrange it and it will act completely differently in most cases.
[QUOTE=Hidole555;34559149]It said energy storage. Maybe a new material for some type of battery?[/QUOTE]
Look at the curves on the bonds. The molecule is strained, the Nitrogen is bent out of plane.
"Energy storage" means the molecule is in a high energy configuration. "Explosive" here just means its itching to get rid of that strain.
Fuck this I'm going to simulate it!
[QUOTE=eddy-tt-;34561156]Not far off, they are continuously planning out the structure to new chemicals, the problem is they tend to be stupidly over complex and if actually synthesized, they'd be unstable as fuck.
Most simple structures are already discovered, named and produced, this really is just a one off thing that she's found [B]but in the end, you can take the structure of any chemical, rearrange it and it will act completely differently in most cases.[/B][/QUOTE]
The one thing that makes chemistry both interesting and damn confusing.
[SUP](well atleast for me)[/SUP]
[editline]5th February 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;34561304]Look at the curves on the bonds. The molecule is strained, the Nitrogen is bent out of plane.
"Energy storage" means the molecule is in a high energy configuration. "Explosive" here just means its itching to get rid of that strain.
Fuck this I'm going to simulate it![/QUOTE]
What?
The best thing I discovered in 5th grade was masturbation :(
[QUOTE=Van-man;34561355]The one thing that makes chemistry both interesting and damn confusing.
[SUP](well atleast for me)[/SUP]
[editline]5th February 2012[/editline]
What?[/QUOTE]
Molecules in a low-energy configuration have zero bond strain. All their bonds are straight. And as water flows to lower heights so do molecules lower their energy. Strained molecules will probably decay in some arbitrary amount of time -- As a similar example, see carbon nanotubes:
[IMG]http://www2.cnrs.fr/sites/en/image/nanotube_hd.jpg[/IMG]
The atoms' bonds show be all on the same plane. But they are bent a little, because it's a tube. So after some thousands of years the tube breaks into a flat layer of graphene, which has lower energy (All bonds are straight).
One day, Eudoxia, I will learn to speak Greek. Then I will go back over all your posts and understand :v:
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wtf is this nerd shit
[QUOTE=extremist18;34560747]I'm in an undergraduate program focusing on Synthetic Maple Syrup Synthesis[/QUOTE]
I was working on my bachelors in Ice Architecture and Igloo Engineering back in Edmonton.
That's awesome, but fuck that long ass name. I'd want it named after myself
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