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May 31, 2008

Energy Equivalents (Not a molecule at all)

Category: Not Really a Molecule

I've been thinking more about energy sources since oil was at $50/barrel . Since we reached the staggering heights of the last few months, I've been puzzling even more over what people will move to next....

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May 29, 2008

Lead Bromide (Volatile lead?)

Category: Poisons

Gasoline and diesel engines operate using very different philosophies. In a gas engine, a spark ignites a compressed fuel-air mixture; in a diesel, air is compressed and gets very hot, and fuel is injected, resulting in ignition. In the case...

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May 27, 2008

Water is blue (because water is blue)

Category: Inorganic

I love stuff like this. A lot of people don't believe that water is blue until they see some really clean water. It really is, though, and the reason is simple yet fascinating. It is because water is blue -...

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May 23, 2008

Chloropicrin (Do not eat)

Category: Poisons

In the news the last couple days: chloropicrin:...

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May 19, 2008

Muscovite (Making things flat with tape)

Category: Inorganic

Mica is neat, you might remember it as the really flaky stuff you used during the minerals demo in grade school:...

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May 15, 2008

Hexamine (Self-assembly is neat)

Category: Explosives

Hexamine is a nitrogenous analogue of adamantane....

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May 14, 2008

Adamantane (That's like, what, a million diamonds for $400?)

Adamantane is a sort of triple-fused-cyclohexane structure:...

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May 9, 2008

More on Volatile Buffers

Previously I've mentioned triethylammonium acetate, and ammonium carbonate. These are salts formed by mixtures of volatile stuff - triethylamine, acetic acid, ammonia, and carbon dioxide. Awhile ago I made one I hadn't ever made before....

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May 7, 2008

Triacetin (Always liquid, always semi-edible)

Category: Food

Triacetin is the glycerol triester of acetic acid:...

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May 5, 2008

Fmoc (Amino acid condoms)

Category: Synthesis

Automated solid-phase synthesis of biomolecules defines 20th century biology. I previously covered a protecting group that is ubiquitous in DNA synthesis, but the Nobel was actually awarded for peptide chemistry....

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