Chemistry - Periodic Table of Elements

[sfscriv]

The study of the composition, properties and behavior of matter. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds.

[pershainovitsh]

What got you so interested in science?

[sfscriv]

I thought someone might say something.

Well, it all started with the ArmA 3 radios and the narrator not knowing what the purpose for the different radios. This lead me to the communication frequency spectrum, which introduced me to the light spectrum, which lead me to thinkin' about space. Nice trip, huh?

I thought the planetary moons portion was interesting. And if you know how things change over the years, it gets you to thinking, well, I wonder what changes have been made to Chemistry's Periodic Table? I even dabled in the components of the atom.

[pershainovitsh]

Let me guess. You went to Wikipedia to an article about radio frequencies, clicked a link to an article about light's spectrum, clicked a link to... and kept going on and on. Wikipedia is like thinking. You can easily get distracted and end up thinking/reading about something more or less different from the original thing. Well, that's what happens to me, anyways.

[sfscriv]

Right! It's a chain high-level thinking. Or, it's a scatter brained mess?

[pershainovitsh]

At least everything is linked together somehow.

[tazimafied]

I think it's the fact that he's so damn bored out of his everloving mind he really doesn't know what to do with himself.

Scriv, you need to come back sateside soon and get behind your PC again before you melt your brain with all that learnin' stuff!

[pershainovitsh]

If you're bored and like physics, you could try to learn how much drop a bullet has over specific distances, unless you've done that already. It should be a pretty simple calculation, and mass doesn't have an effect. Even I could do that a year or two ago.

[tazimafied]

Too easy. Hornady has already done all the work and made a ballistics calculator.

[pershainovitsh]

Oh, wow. With my skills I would've only been able to get the amount of bullet drop, and nothing else. That ballistics calculator does everything I could only dream of.

There's a lot of cool scientific stuff. For example, I'm pretty sure that one-way mirros (like in cop movies in the interrogation room) don't exist. It's just a window, the other room is dark (where the policemen are) and the other one is completely lit up (where the "bad guy" is). You can see this in bright weather, looking at windows from the outside. You can't see through them, as long as it's dark enough inside. In the night, with lights on inside, you can't see very well outside as the window is just reflecting so much.

I think it's neat how you can calculate all sorts of stuff, as long as you have enough information to start with.

[psyco6]

Someone is watching too much Breaking Bad maybe?

[sfscriv]

Actually, I have been watching a good bit of Breaking Bad. Maybe, that is where some of the recent interest in chemistry can from.

[madviper101]

There is nothing wrong with a good old periodic table. Got one on the wall in my office (am sad). Had to dispose of a few hundred grams of sodium the other week which made quite a bang, which was fun.

However as you can see in attached video as you go down the series of alkali metals(column 1 in periodic table) the further down the higher the atomic weight and the bigger the reaction in water, so sodium is really quite a lightweight when it comes to making a bang.
;D

[sfscriv]