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haha! the man in my avatar is a certain music professor i know. he's known for being uber cool and all that, and for a short time there was a website http://www.whatwouldlangdo.com and his picture (my avatar) was on it. so, i now use his picture as my avatar. i do not know why. by the way, can you see my sig image?

oh, sorry about that. i was wondering what was going on

yeah. good for you. good for liberals! im actually something around -6, -8 (forgot my scores from the last time i took it)

no; currently they compromise, which isnt always what people want

ag acetylide is an incredibly powerful primary explosive. take C2H2, add AgNO3 and you have HNO3 and Ag2C2.

they would except they both realize that if they split, the other side will have the majority

if there are two parties, the people aren't represented. as a result, there no longer is a democracy

yeah, that almost has the same force as silver acetylide, no?

thanks for supporting my crazed spontaneous reserach projects what we really need are two catalysts; one that catalyzes the synthesis reaction of a compound, and one that catalyzes the decomposition of the same compound. of course, the problem would be the energy yield over a span of time.

i did a bit of research: according to my lange's handbook of chemistry (actually it's hardly a handbook being thousands of pages), at 0 degrees C, 512g HCl (aq) in 1L H2O is saturated. at 10 C, 475g. at 20 C, 442g. at 30 C, 412g. at 40 C, 385g. molecular mass of HCl=36.453 AMU 1 mole HCl=36.453g 12*36.453=437.436g using my graphing calculator, i figured that 437.436g would be soluble at approx 22.6 C, which is equal to 72.68 F, which is approx room temp. turns out that 12M HCl at room temp is approx saturated. i thought the same thing when i first read it in my chem textbook. it's crazy stuff; it was used to make the first "stable" carbocation. check these links: http://www.cmm.upenn.edu/research/acid.html http://chemserv.bc.edu/Department/Faculty/hoveyda/pka.htm http://poohbah.cem.msu.edu/Portraits/PortraitsHH_Detail.asp?HH_LName=Olah http://reedgroup.ucr.edu/projects/proj1.htm

best from a film: "i am invincible!" -boris (goldeneye) best not staged (tied): "Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough." (To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could write them down for posterity.) -karl marx "I know you have come to kill me. Shoot coward, you are only going to kill a man." Facing his assassin, Mario Teran, a Bolivian soldier. -ernesto che guevara

please see my above post regarding my lack of resources :\ also, i've seen 12M HCl at room temp. that is saturated. i have a 25 year old container of "muriatic acid" that is extremely concentrated, and i understand the value in not bathing in it. everytime i open it, HCl(g) is released. i understand NOT to breathe it in, since it is similar to mustard gas. thanks for the warning, however. i think you misread the HF:SbF5 thing. a 50% solution of HF:SbF5 is 10^18 x as acidic as conc H2SO4. this is because every molecule of HF yields H+ and the F- makes SbF6- since Sb+5 is so electropositive.

hmm. first time i tried i did it without changing directions. then i tried and half the time it worked, half it didnt

the lot of you speak as if i were a professional chemist. alas, i am not even 16 yet and of course i have extremely limited resources for chemicals. sadly, in the states, chemicals are more controlled than in england. there are no nitrate sources available commercially, nor is H2SO4 unless i open many batteries. unfortunately, i have recently found that it would be impossible for me to obtain or synthesize silver salts. yt, you spoke of perchloric acid. just out of curiosity, what is the highest molar concentration one can create with it? how does it compare with HF:SbF5?

heh, it's funny you ask. you see, when i get bored, my mind does odd things. example: i tried for hours to figure out a way to make carbon emissions from automobiles lesser or just eliminate them. unfortunately, i found that over 200 moles of gases are emitted from engines every minute or something like that (i dont feel like checking my notebook) and that an Al(OH)3 filter would be neutralized very quickly.

yeah, i decided to make calcium salts the other day. i started with calcium acetate (simple, no?). i crushed my shells into a fine powder, then added some to a beaker with some ethanoic acid. not all the shells dissolved and it took quite awhile to finish the reaction. when i went to distill it, i turned on my burner and almost instantly the solution released a vapor that looked like water vapor. do you know why this was produced? i checked my merck index and it states that calcium acetate doesn't become anhydrous until higher temperatures

actually the product i want is K(s) thanks anyway; that was good advice

mmm, and the chinese considered themselves to be the "middle kingdom". of course, their isolation policy doomed them when the opium war came about

he's ten times the criminal he was a year ago. seriously, the entire idea of the us "liberating" iraq is just another attempt to justify going to war. this was manufactured after the war ended.

i didnt deny the fact that they are painful. i just dont believe that they are nearly as bad as nuclear weapons or biological weapons

i hate the way people use the term "chemical weapons" first, every modern weapon involves some sort of deadly chemical, be it C3H6N6O6 or C11H26NO2PS. there are some weapons that are more cruel to use than others. in the first world war, chemical weapons were first used by the english, but perfected by the germans. both sides used these weapons in mass quantities. both sides witnessed atrocious carnage. to call "chemical weapons" "wmds" and place them in the league of nuclear weapons and biological weapons is not cool. while dangerous and awful, "chemical weapons" are not nearly as awful as other "wmds". they can cause great amounts of death, but biological weapons can screw an ecosystem for years and have much more potential for death. same with nuclear weapons. sheesh

makes sense. personally, i think we have an oligarchy. in our capitalist society we have a dictatorship of the proliterait and people dont have the courage to stand up against their government or they are oblivious

well, it's more than that. you see, both dems and reps realize that even if a new party is created that works better for them, they should not join it for fear the other side will gain control. (think nader)

depending on the amount of the alkali metal there will be more or less hydroxides...

yeah. also, i'd like to add that we need more political parties. we also need more support for these parties.