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Chemical compounds can be separated into 'functunal' groups. There are acids, a sour, easily wetted substance, readily soluable in water, with an acrid smell that irritates mucous membranes, and turn litmus indicator red. These react with bases, bitter, slippery and also water soluable, but turn litmus blue. In modern chemistry, their solutions decompose to OH- ions and H+ ions; the log scale of their ratio gives the pH value you may have heard of. Two other groups are oxidizers and reducers, which also react with each other, like the previously mentioned hydrazine ( reducer ) and nitric acid ( oxidizer and an acid ) used by the Germans as propellant for their WW2 rockets. The reaction of these groups, redox reactions, are used to produce chemical energy. Think of the lead and acid in your car battery, the carbon and oxygen of a fire, or the oxygen and hydrogen that produces the thrust of a modern orbital rocket. One of the elements in the compound provides a lower energy state for one or more electrons of the other element's higher state, and this is released as useable energy. There are other groupings that help distinguish, such as inert, or noble gases, that don't react with others, metals which have a conduction band of electrons above the valence band ( where chemical bonds are made ) and can conduct electricity and orient into magnetic domains, and even one group you may be hearing about in the news, as the American President is extorting Ukraine for its valuable rare earth elements, Such groupings of similar properties help identify what you are dealing with, or give direction for further testing that will.

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This 'genius', the head of DOGE, responsible for finding and eliminating Government waste, decided it was financially prudent to put a Tesla roadster into orbit. The idiocy and ego of the 'first buddy' is only matched by the American President. Oh, and the House/Senate Republican ass-kissers, voters who voted Republican and Democrats who didn't bother to vote; Did I miss anyone ? ( Wow ! That's a lot of idiots )

I don't know ... Many Republicans are troubled by his labelling of the Ukrainian President an unelected dictator, and snuggling up to the Russian President. They are just too scared to voice their opinions because Trump and Musk will make sure they will not get re-elected.

I'm not a chemist but a physicist. I last studied Chemistry in 76-77, my last year of high school, but I've been working as a 'chemist' for 38 years. ( see ? It's not that difficult ) Keep in mind that chemical reactions involve electron jumps, sharing and transfers. They, in no way, alter the nucleus of the atoms involved; the number of protons and neutrons, and elemental atomic number stay the same. That means all the reagents must be present in the products. This gives clues for analyzing the products of a given reaction. ( and means there is no such thing as 'alchemy' )

Eh ??? Blind people are not self-aware ???

Even if Canada was annexed as one state, and given the same representation as othe states in the House, Senate and Electoral College, the Republicans would never get elected again. As it is right now, once the vindictive idiotic President is gone, even the scared self-serving Republicans who put their election chances above the good of the country, will reverse the agenda of the new orange Hitler. Ronald Reagan isn't just turning over in his grave; he's doing cartwheels.

Curved space-time has energy. Gravitational energy gravitates. Not that I agree with any of the following ...

To be fair, that was an old 'Dave Allan at Large' joke. He did a lot of Religion jokes.

He has a 'concept' of a plan ...

The Pope is discussing the Christian belief of God with a non-believer. After several hours of the Pope trying to convince the non-believer of God's existence, the exasperated Pope tells the non-believer "I give up. You are like a blindfolded man, in a dark room, searching for a black cat, that isn't there. How can I make you see ?" The non-believer respectfully replies "We are very much alike, your excellency. You are also like a blindfolded man, in a dark room, searching for a black cat, that isn't there. The only difference is you've found it."

F Faggin was an excellent engineer in the early semiconductor days, when engineering problems were actually physics problems. He's had a distinguished career at Fairchild, Intel, Zilog and Synaptics, so I would not dismiss anything he says without consideration. However ... If your body and brain are just 'the drone' and sense-of-self and consciousness are manifestations of a quantum field, why do some brain injuries impair your sense-of-self ? Why do you lose consciousness from a blow to the head ? How are injuries to the body affecting the quantum field ?

Both, the 'wanna be Emperor' and his 'first Buddy', have no clothes. And all the Republicans are afraid to tell them. That's another big problem ... People who don't understand, or willingly choose to ignore history, are always surprised when the same shit happens again. And not 90 years ago with the NAZIs and Fascists, but as recent as 2016-2020.

It cannot simply be the amount of information, but the mind-set of people, and what the consider important or worry about. There are more online articles right now about T Kelce's brother being upset that people are accusing him of supporting the Eagles over the Chiefs than stories about a Russian sympathizer, Syrian dictator friendly and Snowden treason supporting ex Democrat , T Gabbard, being sworn in as Trump's choice for Director of National Intelligence. ( with the only Republican to shoe any hint of a backbone being M McConnell; really ? )

The biggest problem, as I see it, is that while you guys ( CharonY, TheVat, Exchemist and INow ) are what I consider critical thinkers, a large swath of the American population is not. The majority have become the 'useful idiots' of this group trying to dismantle American democracy. Most Americans don't consider how tariffs will affect their costs or employment. They are told they are the greatest thing, and they believe it. They are told immigrants are their problem, not thinking about how many jobs immigrants ( and not Americans ) are willing to do, and how the economy and their comfort will be affected. They are told other people are taking unfair advantage of them, and the right to do so should be taken from them; they don't think and realize that the group preaching this is actually targeting them. And not just Americans. I have arguments most evenings, and even at work with otherwise intelligent people, Canadians who buy into this crap. I can somewhat understand how this could happen a century ago, where a few influential people could sway people's minds, but I cannot understand how people are so easily swayed today given the wealth of information sources and viewpoints available.