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Dissociative electron attachment - The Cosmic Chemist
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25.5 Organic acids - Thinking about Science with David Hukins
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| | Before you read this, I suggest you read posts 17.49 and 25.4. The purpose of this post is to show how we can use the idea of a resonance hybrid to explain the relative acidity of acetic acid (also called ethanoic acid - the acid that gives vinegar its flavour), ethanol (the alcohol in alcoholic...
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Better living through chemistry | Logarithmic History
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| | 2.43 - 2.31 billion years ago There are some interesting parallels between chemistry on the one hand, and linguistics on the other. Remarkably,a recent article makes a strong casethat there is an actual historical connection between the science of linguistics and the science of chemistry. Specifically, Mendeleev's construction of the Periodic Table of Elements was...
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Molecular design of nanographenes and magnetism
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| | Nanographenes can be designed to have magnetic properties, opening doors to future technologies like super-fast computers or advanced sensors
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Sam Altman's vision is the stuff of my nightmares: "A significant fraction of the power on Earth should be spent running AI" | Laptop Mag
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| AMD CEO Lisa Su brought OpenAI's Sam Altman on stage during the Advancing AI 2025 keynote on Thursday, and one exchange from their brief chat now lives rent-free in my mind. For better or worse.