Questions for this thread: >What are you currently working on? >Which exam are you currently studying for? >What's your favourite field? >Found any interesting books or papers recently?
Helpful things: >"Help me find a specific paper!" Google Scholar is always a good place to start. If you've found the title, citation or a DOI, sci-hub can help you out from there
>"What is a good book on [Subject]?" Check out the sticky. If you don't find what you're looking for there, ask ITT and if you found something useful, libgen or b-ok might have your book as a pdf.
>Help me make [Drug]! No. The OP of this thread might or might not make a Google doc for that, depending on whether /chemg/s become a thing or not.
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Camden Perez
sup
Ryder Clark
Thanks based bob
Liam Butler
I really really dislike analytical chemistry
Joshua Cox
>What are you currently working on? I just finished writing a review I was working on with my professor and another undergrad. If it gets accepted it'll be my first publication. This week I'm going back into the lab. I do peptide synthesis, and study bacterial quorum sensing. >Which exam are you currently studying for? Just took my first "synthetic organic chemistry" exam of the year, was really tough. >What's your favourite field? Organic Chem >Found any interesting books or papers recently? I found an interesting paper called "Protection (and Deprotection) of Functional Groups in Organic Synthesis by Heterogeneous Catalysis" that I often make reference to when doing homework, if anyone is interested in that sort of thing
Landon Powell
what do i do with this shitty degree?
Gabriel Turner
Going into pharma and getting mad $$$. Other options would be polymer chemistry or petrochemistry.
Ian Morris
Either a bottle washer or reactor operator or analysis runner with a bachelor's. If you get a PhD, whatever you want, which is what your PhD was on.
Kayden Young
what's the best field?
Jaxon Collins
Analytical chemistry is pretty comfy. Inorganic chemistry is nice with cluster chemistry and tech chemistry or electrochemistry is said to bring you the best salaries, at least where I live.
Joseph Lopez
Not really a field but just be good or decent in a lot of different things, depending on your choice of advisor, this will automatically happen in gradschool.
Make your own molecules Cast your own films Perform your own calculations Run your own electrochemistry and spectroscopy Build your own devices
Complete synthesis and characterization, thorough. Too many people make a lot of molecules but do not deep characterization or don't make anything new but characterize the fuck out of previously made stuff.
Connor Wilson
Would be very appreciated if anyone explain the reasoning behind this
Ryan Ramirez
Buffer strength ~ Closeness to desired pH. Since they are both within 0.5 pH units, either works, or no?
Aiden Thomas
I would choose 8.00, because the generation of hydronium ions will decrease pH
Jason Cooper
Yes but the question wants hydrogen ions, so wouldn't acid B be preferred?
Oliver Ward
This is me True, I didn't think about that.
Charles Wright
The more acidic one will be better because it will have more mols of conjugate base around to soak up protons I think
Robert Garcia
The answer is actually Acid B guys I just don't understand why
Christian Flores
Could you explain why?
If the conjugate base is weaker then how is there more mol?
Lucas Hill
If the acid is strong, its conjugate base is weaker. Therefore, it requires a larger number of CB molecules to produce that pH than a weaker acid would require, because the conjugate base of the weaker acid is more basic per molecule. Remember that when preparing buffer solutions, usually they are made out of a mix of an acid and its CB, i.e. 4g of AcOH and 2g of AcNa in 100mL of water.
If this is unsatisfactory I can get way way more in depth but I didn't to drown you in it if you're just curious.
Nolan Walker
>graduated with a 2:1 in chemistry 4 months ago and havent even applied to any jobs or done anything really is therapy a meme or could it actually help me get motivated?
Jackson Thomas
Stronger buffer = smaller change in pH Smaller change in pH = acid with smaller Ka The one with smaller Ka is acid A
That's what I think At least
Aiden Stewart
>What are you currently working on? BS in mathematics, 3rd year
>Which exam are you currently studying for? 1. Grad-level linear algebra 2. Grad-level real analysis 3. Clinical neuroanatomy
>What's your favourite field? Probably [math] \mathbb{R} [/math]
>Found any interesting books or papers recently? Not within the last week or so
Levi Roberts
I accidentally found some youtube videos of amateur rocket testing on youtube earlier this week and it seemed very interesting. I havent done any chemistry since highschool, but i still remember some stuff. According to a recipe I found you just have to mix potassiumnitrate and sugar or something else that is combustible. Ive looked around in hardware stores but I havent been able to find any KNO3 so im thinking about making my own somehow. How could I do that? Is it possible to use some other nitrate, because its the oxygen thats the important bit right? Help appreciated.
Levi Baker
>What's your favourite field? >Organic chem
Mah nigga
Henry King
pchem is better tho
William Rodriguez
Polymer chemist for battery industry. Doot doot mother fuckers