10-Year-Old Accidentally Creates New Molecule in Her Science Class
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I wonder how many new molecules could be created if they let all their students get creative with the molecules instead of doing boring repetitions.
[QUOTE=mr apple;34561665]That's awesome, but fuck that long ass name. I'd want it named after myself[/QUOTE]
you can't
Hey, I'm at humboldt state.
[QUOTE=ThePinkPanzer;34559206]Or starts WWIII.[/QUOTE]
Haber's got a rival :v:
[editline]5th February 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;34560854]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]
pre-high school science classes are a clusterfuck anyways
physics one quarter, bio the next 3!
no but seriously there's TOO much focus on biology.
At first I thought she just sort of accidentally bumped into a particle accelerator or something.
Oh well, still pretty cool.
[QUOTE=OnDemand;34561744]I wonder how many new molecules could be created if they let all their students get creative with the molecules instead of doing boring repetitions.[/QUOTE]
uh not that many
this was just a fluke
We had to raise Mealworms when I was in 5th grade. I hate those things.
[QUOTE=SuperHoboMan;34561363]The best thing I discovered in 5th grade was masturbation :([/QUOTE]
Dammit, I didn't discover that until sixth grade!
this makes me wish my science classes/classes were better in 5th grade. and 6th. and 7th.
curse you, shitty incompetent education.
Man, the closest I ever did to anything like this in school was write a shitty book.
'Sigh' I live in a country with some of the best educational opportunities, and I wasn't taught jack-shit about molecules until the third quarter of year seven. :/
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First two quarters of our phys/chem class was exclusively electricity, and we'd do experiments with the school's equipment, jesus fucking christ I made better shit with my Mini-Edison toy set.
Oh well, at least I'll get to have the awesome kind of Physics when I start at a Gymnasium next year (And I won't have the clusterfuck that is chemistry, woo!).
I don't know why you guys are acting like you couldn't read up on this stuff before you learned it in school
that's what I did :v:
[QUOTE=trotskygrad;34562252]Haber's got a rival :v:
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pre-high school science classes are a clusterfuck anyways
physics one quarter, bio the next 3!
no but seriously there's TOO much focus on biology.[/QUOTE]
The way my high school did it, we had something called IPC (Integrated Physics and Chem(Basic stuff across the field)) freshman year, then Biology Sophomore year, then Chem Junior year. Since we were only required to take 3 years of science, taking Physics senior year was optional.
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That's the thing about US education. It's really up the district what you learn. Some schools are really good while others suck.
The only awesome thing I did in science class was mixing a shit ton of chemicals together and heating it up til it exploded and scared the absolute shit out of everyone in the class.
[QUOTE=SpaceGhost;34563548]The only awesome thing I did in science class was mixing a shit ton of chemicals together and heating it up til it exploded and scared the absolute shit out of everyone in the class.[/QUOTE]
If you want to make your chemistry teacher shit his pants, threaten to mix ammonium nitrate and copper.
[sp]fyi, that will make an explosive that's sensitive to air movement and will go off by you breathign near it, so, I dont recommend making it.[/sp]
Not particularly impressive. She just put together a whole bunch of balls and sticks and didn't have a clue what she was doing.
It's like banging on a keyboard and accidentally having it turn out to be correct sentence in Finnish, even if you don't know Finnish.
[QUOTE=OvB;34561573]I was working on my bachelors in Ice Architecture and Igloo Engineering back in Edmonton.[/QUOTE]
Pfft, I got a Masters in Paper Mache Crafting and paper Airplane Construction. :v:
She earned a free ticket to university.
(Community college for all of the Americans out there)
[quote]tetranitratoxycarbon[/quote]
Now that's a word I hope I never have to pronounce.
[QUOTE=Pridit;34567178]Now that's a word I hope I never have to pronounce.[/QUOTE]
Teh-truh-nit-truh-toxie-car-bin
I thought it was easy :v:
[QUOTE=krakadict;34559498]can't the we abort it like a fetus? it's only 200~ years old, we don't want their silly laws effecting other countries.[/QUOTE]
you say that now, but us and australia were thinkin about putting you in a home, you're getting older.
and you wrecked our inheritance in the 60's
If i read it correctly they were "playing" with the stick and balls(no pun intended) and she accidently creates a new molecule?
That is awesome!
Also btw don't tell me that they are still using blackboards in her classroom, it's so pre 90s.
[QUOTE=OvB;34563449]The way my high school did it, we had something called IPC (Integrated Physics and Chem(Basic stuff across the field)) freshman year, then Biology Sophomore year, then Chem Junior year. Since we were only required to take 3 years of science, taking Physics senior year was optional.
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That's the thing about US education. It's really up the district what you learn. Some schools are really good while others suck.[/QUOTE]
it's even that way with AP courses, which are supposed to be somewhat standardized.
Holy fuck they teach this shit to 10 year olds? Goddamn, they didn't start teaching us this until I was 14, and I still don't get it. And now you're telling me a fucking 10-year-old creates a new molecule? Shit's fucked up man.
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Except for the new molecule, that's pretty cool.
It's like in second grade when people would speak gibberish and ask me if that means anything in chinese.
[QUOTE=Kendra;34564531]If you want to make your chemistry teacher shit his pants, threaten to mix ammonium nitrate and copper.
[sp]fyi, that will make an explosive that's sensitive to air movement and will go off by you breathign near it, so, I dont recommend making it.[/sp][/QUOTE]
Ammonia and iodine make a fun substance called nitrogen triiodide if you mix them together. As Wikipedia describes it:
[quote]Nitrogen triiodide has no practical commercial value due to its extreme shock sensitivity, making it impossible to store, transport, and utilize for controlled explosions. Whereas pure nitroglycerin is also highly shock-sensitive (although not nearly as much so as nitrogen triiodide, which can be set off with the touch of a feather)...[/quote]
[quote]To highlight the sensitivity of the compound, it is usually detonated by touching it with a feather but even the slightest air current or other movement can cause detonation. Nitrogen triiodide is also notable for being the only known chemical explosive that detonates when exposed to alpha particles and nuclear fission products[/quote]
It also gives off iodine gas when it explodes, which also stains anything it comes into contact with. Me and some friends made some at school, the lab we made it in had to be shut down for a week afterwards :v:
[QUOTE=Camundongo;34576910]Ammonia and iodine make a fun substance called nitrogen triiodide if you mix them together. As Wikipedia describes it:
It also gives off iodine gas when it explodes, which also stains anything it comes into contact with. Me and some friends made some at school, the lab we made it in had to be shut down for a week afterwards :v:[/QUOTE]
I WANT
[QUOTE=mr apple;34561665]That's awesome, but fuck that long ass name. I'd want it named after myself[/QUOTE]
Misterine monoappleide.
Its strange, I learned this stuff in grade 4.
[sp]I don't remember any of it[/sp]
Anyways, she probably doesn't even know how important this is in general
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;34561399]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).[/QUOTE]
can stuff decaying over time seriously be summed up as "bendy things go snap, thingy falls apart :( "
fuck I love this, teach us more simple science
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