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#27 Apr 27 2012 at 8:06 AM Rating: Good
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Congrats soon to be Dr. Vataro.
What field are you studying?


Analytical / Materials Chemistry

Edited, Apr 27th 2012 9:06am by Vataro
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#28 Apr 27 2012 at 9:57 AM Rating: Good
I still say hydrogen should be considered a metal.

But then again, I'm someone who would start throwing stuff when I had a difficult chemical equation to balance, so you, sir, have my congratulations. Go out there and discover the next great party drug.
#29 Apr 27 2012 at 12:59 PM Rating: Good
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Vataro wrote:
His Excellency Aethien wrote:
Congrats soon to be Dr. Vataro.
What field are you studying?


Analytical / Materials Chemistry
Does that mean you make things go boom?
#30 Apr 27 2012 at 1:03 PM Rating: Good
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Scientific progress goes "boink."
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#31 Apr 27 2012 at 1:13 PM Rating: Excellent
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Vataro wrote:
His Excellency Aethien wrote:
Congrats soon to be Dr. Vataro.
What field are you studying?


Analytical / Materials Chemistry

Edited, Apr 27th 2012 9:06am by Vataro


Smiley: eek

His Excellency Aethien wrote:
Does that mean you make things go boom?


Waterproof but breathable sports bra with built in heart rate monitor made with organic wiring?


Edited, Apr 27th 2012 12:15pm by someproteinguy
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#32 Apr 27 2012 at 1:18 PM Rating: Good
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Sounds somewhere between Matsci and CSI.
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#33 Apr 28 2012 at 9:29 PM Rating: Good
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His Excellency Aethien wrote:
Vataro wrote:
His Excellency Aethien wrote:
Congrats soon to be Dr. Vataro.
What field are you studying?


Analytical / Materials Chemistry
Does that mean you make things go boom?


Well, one of my collaborations involves TNT, so... sure.
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#34 Apr 28 2012 at 11:40 PM Rating: Excellent
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#35 Apr 29 2012 at 3:29 AM Rating: Default
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Congratulations. I envy you..I still have a ways to go

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So, are you going to be a medical doctor or a doctor in some field where no one else cares that you're a doctor except those within your field of work?


If I'm not mistaken, medical doctors get MD's not PhD's. Any way, that's why I found a program for Comp Neural Science that would give me both.
#36 Apr 29 2012 at 12:47 PM Rating: Excellent
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I once rode the train in a car adjacent to that of a kid who looked like he might go pre-med, so I'm basically a doctor already.
#37 Apr 30 2012 at 4:58 PM Rating: Excellent
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I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express once, so ditto! Smiley: schooled
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#38 May 02 2012 at 7:52 AM Rating: Good
People in my undergrad lab somehow manage to make stuff explode. Also, set bins on fire.

I just managed to melt together a distillation apparatus once. It was the technician's fault, though (silly woman put 135°C MP clamps on when I was running it at 280°C).

Congrats, though, Vataro! That's really great.


(I do think I'm gonna have an early midlife crisis soon with half my friends doing postgrads/postdocs/etc.)
#39 May 02 2012 at 11:04 AM Rating: Good
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Kalivha wrote:
People in my undergrad lab somehow manage to make stuff explode. Also, set bins on fire.
I was doing that in high school. And not during any science classes. Smiley: dubious
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#40 May 03 2012 at 3:10 PM Rating: Decent
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Kalivha wrote:
People in my undergrad lab somehow manage to make stuff explode. Also, set bins on

Pfft, if I were doing Chemistry I'd make explosions every week. Y'know, for teh lulz.
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#41 May 04 2012 at 2:10 AM Rating: Good
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Kalivha wrote:
People in my undergrad lab somehow manage to make stuff explode. Also, set bins on

Pfft, if I were doing Chemistry I'd make explosions every week. Y'know, for teh lulz.


Meh, with the stuff we have in the lab the worst we can do easily is set fire to solvents.

Which is why it's kind of impressive that someone managed to make something explode!
#42 May 04 2012 at 2:13 AM Rating: Good
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Kalivha wrote:
Meh, with the stuff we have in the lab the worst we can do easily is set fire to solvents.

Which is why it's kind of impressive that someone managed to make something explode!
It's not like you really need fire to make something explode. Hell, a little dry ice, some water and a sealed container will do the trick.
#43 May 04 2012 at 4:10 AM Rating: Good
We don't seem to do anything with dry ice (yet).

But yeah, just heat a sealed system enough and it'll explode, so it's not really all that hard.
#44 May 04 2012 at 7:14 AM Rating: Good
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If you get to play with dry ice hold it against something metal. It screams, pretty cool.
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#45 May 04 2012 at 7:46 AM Rating: Good
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A little potassium nitrate, sugar, baking soda, and colored powdered dye and you can make smoke grenades. Smiley: thumbsup
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#46 May 04 2012 at 12:53 PM Rating: Good
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I shall find out where I can buy some... That or I can raid the Chemistry department stores on campus...
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#47 May 04 2012 at 3:38 PM Rating: Good
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The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
Kalivha wrote:
Meh, with the stuff we have in the lab the worst we can do easily is set fire to solvents.

Which is why it's kind of impressive that someone managed to make something explode!
It's not like you really need fire to make something explode. Hell, a little dry ice, some water and a sealed container will do the trick.


Protip: Dont use Arizona Ice Tea bottles. we used to make dry ice bombs on occasion (ok a lot) and we'd use any bottle we could get ahold of. Well the Arizona Ice Tea bottle is brittle enough that it goes off very quickly. Blew up in my hand and boy did that scare the crap out of me. Fortunately it didn't hurt.

eta: oops, congrats, Vat!

Edited, May 4th 2012 2:39pm by KTurner
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The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
Kalivha wrote:
Meh, with the stuff we have in the lab the worst we can do easily is set fire to solvents.

Which is why it's kind of impressive that someone managed to make something explode!
It's not like you really need fire to make something explode. Hell, a little dry ice, some water and a sealed container will do the trick.


Protip: Dont use Arizona Ice Tea bottles. we used to make dry ice bombs on occasion (ok a lot) and we'd use any bottle we could get ahold of. Well the Arizona Ice Tea bottle is brittle enough that it goes off very quickly. Blew up in my hand and boy did that scare the crap out of me. Fortunately it didn't hurt.


Yow! We put a bunch in a 2lt soda bottle, shook it up and tossed it off the porch. Sadly, it didn't go off. So we waited, and it still didn't go off. So now we've got this bomb basically sitting on the front lawn. Could go off right now, maybe 5 minutes from now, maybe never. So of course, we got out the bb gun and started shooting at it. Plink, miss. Plink, miss. Plink *KABOOM*. Darn thing sounded like a cannon when it went off.

Good times! Smiley: grin
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#49 May 06 2012 at 10:14 AM Rating: Decent
I don't like explosions. (Weird chemist, right?)

I'm getting more and more tempted to get like an AK-47 or something for the lulz, though. Like, just so I can say I used to own one. I'm not particularly interested to take the effort to learn how to use those things.

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Plink, miss. Plink, miss. Plink *KABOOM*. Darn thing sounded like a cannon when it went off.
This somehow reminds me how my... friend? ex? something once stole an air raid siren from an airforce base and carried it into the village with a few people and set it off. I liked that story...
#50 May 06 2012 at 10:51 AM Rating: Good
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Kalivha wrote:
I don't like explosions. (Weird chemist, right?)
You are a terrible scientist.
What's the point of science if you don't make stuff go boom?
#51 May 06 2012 at 11:45 AM Rating: Good
I get to use faster computers than the rest of the world? Smiley: grin
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