hypervalent_iodine

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Exactly. There are no rules. This reminds me of guest lecture I attended once during my undergrad, which is somewhat related. It was by a professor at my former institution called Hugh Possingham. The presentation was a few years ago now, but it explored the question of which species we should focus effort and resources into trying to conserve, since it is impractical to think that we can focus efforts into all of those in need. The priority, as you'd probably know, tends to go to animals that are cute and fluffy rather than those that are in more dire straights or those that a given ecosystem may benefit from more (fungi, for example, are routinely ignored). It's an interesting topic of discussion. (I found a brief article on it here) In any case, my point is that the line you draw between animals that are okay to kill and animals that are not is completely arbitrary and advocates for the, 'meat is murder,' punch-line have made no compelling argument (that I have found) as to why their line is better than my line. Perhaps I should have asked what there was something more to, as I suspect you may have misinterpreted what my original comment was directed at.

Yet they are still doing damage, so by what right do they judge others? In any case, I find, 'you could do more to limit suffering' to be somewhat uncompelling and given the demands, largely impractical (we as a species have always and will always eat meat). Yes, perhaps people who eat meat could do something to limit the suffering (and I for one am all for improved conditions for livestock), but then so could vegetarians/vegans by, for instance, growing their own crops. Size seems like an extremely poor metric on which to base the decision of whether or not it's okay to kill something. Such as? I think this is more an associated idea rather than the literal definition, which to me is simply the choice to refrain from the consumption of all animal products. There are plenty of vegans who are vegan because it is a dietary fad rather than out of concern for livestock.

Whether or not livestock are treated with some level of cruelty is besides the point, since the people who are eating meat are not the ones abstaining from it on the basis of animal deaths/cruelty and protesting about the 'immoral' diets of other people. The point is the hypocracy of it. Maybe grains and soy aren't a major component of vegan/vegetarian diets and maybe some don't eat them at all, but it does still form a large part of it for many and harvesting of such does result in the death of animals. "A murderer who kills 10 people is no better than a murderer who kills 20." Why is the death of a mouse not as significant as the slaughter of a cow? Seems to me that it's nothing more than a means towards a sense of righteous self-importance.

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Not so. All the 143040 ones I flagged yesterday had just registered.

Quite a lot of them are actually bots posting into other threads. Some threads are magnets for it. I know of a forum that disallows links in posts in other threads or in their own OP's until you reach a certain post count, but I honestly found this to be an annoyance coming in as a new member. I don't know if we could employ a system that puts a post containing links from new members into the moderator review panel with our current forum software, though it's not a bad idea and something to look into when next we (read: Cap'n and dave) update the site.

This is what I would normally do as well (it is especially prudent for working on mg scale). My post was made under the assumption that the OP was not necessarily transferring between vessels. If transferring from one flask to another, this is certainly the best method. Though if you're transferring to something that has a ground glass joint on it or a neck that could fit rubber hosing, you could forgo the air stream and just connect it to vacuum again, provided the glass could withstand it.

This depends on the flask. Would a spatula not suffice? What are you using you product for?

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If you can get access to ChemBio3D, I would recommend using that. Otherwise, just use a model kit(s).

http://www.iupac.org/publications/pac/1991/pdf/6307x0975.pdf As best as I could tell from your very vague question, you're looking at atomic weights.

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