His Excellency Aethien wrote:
Congrats soon to be Dr. Vataro.
What field are you studying?
What field are you studying?
Analytical / Materials Chemistry
Edited, Apr 27th 2012 9:06am by Vataro
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Analytical / Materials Chemistry
Edited, Apr 27th 2012 9:06am by Vataro
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I still say hydrogen should be considered a metal.
But then again, I'm someone who would start throwing stuff when I had a difficult chemical equation to balance, so you, sir, have my congratulations. Go out there and discover the next great party drug.
But then again, I'm someone who would start throwing stuff when I had a difficult chemical equation to balance, so you, sir, have my congratulations. Go out there and discover the next great party drug.
Vataro wrote:
His Excellency Aethien wrote:
Congrats soon to be Dr. Vataro.
What field are you studying?
What field are you studying?
Analytical / Materials Chemistry
Scientific progress goes "boink."
George Carlin wrote:
I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
Vataro wrote:
His Excellency Aethien wrote:
Congrats soon to be Dr. Vataro.
What field are you studying?
What field are you studying?
Analytical / Materials Chemistry
Edited, Apr 27th 2012 9:06am by Vataro
His Excellency Aethien wrote:
Does that mean you make things go boom?
Waterproof but breathable sports bra with built in heart rate monitor made with organic wiring?
Edited, Apr 27th 2012 12:15pm by someproteinguy
That monster in the mirror, he just might be you. -Grover
Sounds somewhere between Matsci and CSI.
Just as Planned.
His Excellency Aethien wrote:
Vataro wrote:
His Excellency Aethien wrote:
Congrats soon to be Dr. Vataro.
What field are you studying?
What field are you studying?
Analytical / Materials Chemistry
Well, one of my collaborations involves TNT, so... sure.
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Love,
PunkFloyd
PunkFloyd
Congratulations. I envy you..I still have a ways to go
If I'm not mistaken, medical doctors get MD's not PhD's. Any way, that's why I found a program for Comp Neural Science that would give me both.
Ugly wrote:
So, are you going to be a medical doctor or a doctor in some field where no one else cares that you're a doctor except those within your field of work?
If I'm not mistaken, medical doctors get MD's not PhD's. Any way, that's why I found a program for Comp Neural Science that would give me both.
I once rode the train in a car adjacent to that of a kid who looked like he might go pre-med, so I'm basically a doctor already.
I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express once, so ditto! 
King Nobby wrote:
More words please
People in my undergrad lab somehow manage to make stuff explode. Also, set bins on fire.
I just managed to melt together a distillation apparatus once. It was the technician's fault, though (silly woman put 135°C MP clamps on when I was running it at 280°C).
Congrats, though, Vataro! That's really great.
(I do think I'm gonna have an early midlife crisis soon with half my friends doing postgrads/postdocs/etc.)
I just managed to melt together a distillation apparatus once. It was the technician's fault, though (silly woman put 135°C MP clamps on when I was running it at 280°C).
Congrats, though, Vataro! That's really great.
(I do think I'm gonna have an early midlife crisis soon with half my friends doing postgrads/postdocs/etc.)
Kalivha wrote:
People in my undergrad lab somehow manage to make stuff explode. Also, set bins on fire.
George Carlin wrote:
I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
Kalivha wrote:
People in my undergrad lab somehow manage to make stuff explode. Also, set bins on
Pfft, if I were doing Chemistry I'd make explosions every week. Y'know, for teh lulz.
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Solrain wrote:
WARs can use semi-colons however we want. I once killed a guy with a semi-colon.
LordFaramir wrote:
ODESNT MATTER CAUSE I HAVE ALCHOLOL IN MY VEINGS BETCH ;3
Nilatai wrote:
Kalivha wrote:
People in my undergrad lab somehow manage to make stuff explode. Also, set bins on
Pfft, if I were doing Chemistry I'd make explosions every week. Y'know, for teh lulz.
Meh, with the stuff we have in the lab the worst we can do easily is set fire to solvents.
Which is why it's kind of impressive that someone managed to make something explode!
Kalivha wrote:
Meh, with the stuff we have in the lab the worst we can do easily is set fire to solvents.
Which is why it's kind of impressive that someone managed to make something explode!
Which is why it's kind of impressive that someone managed to make something explode!
We don't seem to do anything with dry ice (yet).
But yeah, just heat a sealed system enough and it'll explode, so it's not really all that hard.
But yeah, just heat a sealed system enough and it'll explode, so it's not really all that hard.
If you get to play with dry ice hold it against something metal. It screams, pretty cool.
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Solrain wrote:
WARs can use semi-colons however we want. I once killed a guy with a semi-colon.
LordFaramir wrote:
ODESNT MATTER CAUSE I HAVE ALCHOLOL IN MY VEINGS BETCH ;3
A little potassium nitrate, sugar, baking soda, and colored powdered dye and you can make smoke grenades. 
George Carlin wrote:
I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
I shall find out where I can buy some... That or I can raid the Chemistry department stores on campus...
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Solrain wrote:
WARs can use semi-colons however we want. I once killed a guy with a semi-colon.
LordFaramir wrote:
ODESNT MATTER CAUSE I HAVE ALCHOLOL IN MY VEINGS BETCH ;3
The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
Kalivha wrote:
Meh, with the stuff we have in the lab the worst we can do easily is set fire to solvents.
Which is why it's kind of impressive that someone managed to make something explode!
Which is why it's kind of impressive that someone managed to make something explode!
Protip: Dont use Arizona Ice Tea bottles. we used to make dry ice bombs on occasion (ok a lot) and we'd use any bottle we could get ahold of. Well the Arizona Ice Tea bottle is brittle enough that it goes off very quickly. Blew up in my hand and boy did that scare the crap out of me. Fortunately it didn't hurt.
eta: oops, congrats, Vat!
Edited, May 4th 2012 2:39pm by KTurner
KTurner wrote:
The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
Kalivha wrote:
Meh, with the stuff we have in the lab the worst we can do easily is set fire to solvents.
Which is why it's kind of impressive that someone managed to make something explode!
Which is why it's kind of impressive that someone managed to make something explode!
Protip: Dont use Arizona Ice Tea bottles. we used to make dry ice bombs on occasion (ok a lot) and we'd use any bottle we could get ahold of. Well the Arizona Ice Tea bottle is brittle enough that it goes off very quickly. Blew up in my hand and boy did that scare the crap out of me. Fortunately it didn't hurt.
Yow! We put a bunch in a 2lt soda bottle, shook it up and tossed it off the porch. Sadly, it didn't go off. So we waited, and it still didn't go off. So now we've got this bomb basically sitting on the front lawn. Could go off right now, maybe 5 minutes from now, maybe never. So of course, we got out the bb gun and started shooting at it. Plink, miss. Plink, miss. Plink *KABOOM*. Darn thing sounded like a cannon when it went off.
Good times!
King Nobby wrote:
More words please
I don't like explosions. (Weird chemist, right?)
I'm getting more and more tempted to get like an AK-47 or something for the lulz, though. Like, just so I can say I used to own one. I'm not particularly interested to take the effort to learn how to use those things.
This somehow reminds me how my... friend? ex? something once stole an air raid siren from an airforce base and carried it into the village with a few people and set it off. I liked that story...
I'm getting more and more tempted to get like an AK-47 or something for the lulz, though. Like, just so I can say I used to own one. I'm not particularly interested to take the effort to learn how to use those things.
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Plink, miss. Plink, miss. Plink *KABOOM*. Darn thing sounded like a cannon when it went off.
Kalivha wrote:
I don't like explosions. (Weird chemist, right?)
What's the point of science if you don't make stuff go boom?
I get to use faster computers than the rest of the world? 
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