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are you serious? kerry is socially progressive whereas bush oppresses. kerry is economically conservative whereas bush is economically neoliberal. kerry supports internationalism where bush supports isolationism and imperialism (sort of a paradox). i for one am not

tis a shame. ecological biology is useless to me and i dont consider it to be a true science. molecular biology is nothing without chem. theoretical physics can be quite dull when speaking of conditions that could never possibly exist. particle physics is dull because we dont know enough about sub-subatomic particles yet...i prefer chem.

awhile back we had general chem, organic chem and theoretical chem topics but recently chem has been swept aside. it's awful

furthering my previous post, the reason why He+1 has a lesser atomic radius than H+ is because its effective nuclear charge is greater, because it has more protons "pulling" the electrons.

yep, here you are; H- 154 pm H 78 pm H+ 10^-5 pm covalent 30 pm van der Waals 120 pm He 128 pm van der Waals 122 pm He+1 0.93 A...i dont have a key that can type the A with the little circle above it.

yeah, pauling wrote one

i support kerry although, personally i found howard dean to be the best dem candidate; he's economically conservative and socially progressive. the kucinich. next comes edwards who could lead well despite his lack of experience. remember that socialism is the cure for capitalism another good liberal is obama who will be president eventually

good call

actually, i'm not sure of what to use as the liquid. it would have to have a high boiling point and decomposition point

oh, it's certainly possible; i know somebody on other forums who had a ball of molten Na(s) shoot up his nose a few weeks ago.

yep

it's impossible to divide by zero...plus, even if you could make something that would "hold" an atom in place, that atom would get pissed off so to speak and meander through that "container"

china is a potential powerhouse like none other. it also controls a great deal of the global economy. i predict that china will either become the dominating force in the global economy or it will crash and send the world into a terrible downward spin.

heh, i have some super conc HCl. i made a solution of 250 mL H2O with 10mL of my HCl solution and it had a pH of 1. pssh, HNO3 is easy to make; just get a nitrate source and NaHSO4 and be ready to collect HNO3(g)

actually buckminsterfullerene is the scientific name although the merck index uses soccerballene as a synonym. it actually is C60

sorry, i just checked my index again; it's soccerballene not soccerballerene

actually, you can check the merck index on that one; soccerballerene is an actual name for buckminsterfullerene.

where does buckyball/buckminsterfullerene/soccerballerene/C60 rank in comparison to diamond?

apparently you haven't seen the states

personally, i believe that the justice system should send people to jail to rehabilitate them rather than punish them. punishment does not change character whereas rehabilitation does.

hmm...maybe the point of view that counters neo-cons is actually the view that is in the public's best interest to hear...

the source is weak?

Take iridium 193 (natural abudance=62.7%) and bombard it with neutrons. for the neutrons, just use a neutron gun (try using americium-241 from smoke alarms with aluminum foil in front of it, or better yet radium-226 from luminous dial clocks with beryllium in front of it then make a casing out of lead and poke a hole in one end of it). every Ir isotope above 193 yields beta- decay with quite low half-lives. yep, this means that within hours you'll have mostly platinum. only problem is that the only reasonably stable Pt isotopes are 190, 192, 194 196 and 198, so you'll end up with some gold and then mercury quite quickly. still, i am sure you will have quite a bit of stable Pt.

diamonds

diamonds are the hardest natural rocks known to man. this means that they're difficult to scratch. take a hammer to them and they'll shatter.