running log of lab moments
#trench tales from slop world
dawn finch
dawn finch
Blue glop fo today
strong granite
so even real chemists do their exothermic reactions in ice baths
i would have thought you'd have some cool science tool for that
stoic rampart
love these posts so neat
dawn finch
The soxhlet is running
But no vapor head yet so i wrapped the whole thing in aluminum foil. Looks like baked potato
novel briar
cute cute
Oh yeah, the physics people had a q about aluminum foil (we want a parabolic mirror for solar cookin')
any good way to smooth it out completely?
de-wrinkle?
dawn finch
any good way to smooth it out completely?
Get it as flat as possible and use your nails with firm but smooth pressure. Labor intensive. Only works for small pieces
broken sapphire
i love this blog
dawn finch
Inadvertently ripped top off a bottle of flammable stench reagent shortly after this was taken and was so surprised I accidentally stuck myself with a needle
This is what we call raw dogging it
novel briar
What’s in there?
dawn finch
Phosphines and borane-dimethylsulfide adduct
dawn finch
broken sapphire
that's beautiful
dawn finch
Year 3 of my phd and I feel like every day is sweating in pitch darkness
Nothing has changed in 100 years
Lewis died by his own hand in his own lab after an illustrious career, working the same style of high vacuum line our group uses
broken sapphire
damn man
I was reading a history of evolutionary theories recently
the book was a 2nd edition of an old text but even this new edition was from 1930
the bulk of it charted the progression towards darwinism and genetics
but it ended by surmising that darwinism had been abandoned after the newer generations stopped considering it exciting or novel
the whole book felt eerily contemporary even compared to a newer history of the life sciences (from 2008) i was reading alongside, up until that point
Nothing has changed in 100 years
dawn finch
the whole book felt eerily contemporary even compared to a newer history of the ...
Feels like the mark of a "finished story" or maturity
When all that was new is taken for granted
broken sapphire
it really isn't though, that is the point
they literally thought darwinism was a failed theory and was all but ready to abandon it
slim stratus
Oh my god its so messy
dawn finch
This is real life
dawn finch
Its worse then my room
This is after I cleaned up btw
slim stratus
This is after I cleaned up btw
Oh no
broken sapphire
dawn finch
Oh okay I get it now
broken sapphire
#1023711487983898664
dawn finch
My haters, enemies and critics were vindicated today as EHS made a special request that I clean my hood
Note: I had already done what I thought was cleaning a week ago
slim stratus
Lmfao
slim stratus
My haters, enemies and critics were vindicated today as EHS made a special reque...
These are the funniest posts I've read in a while been smiling when ever I think about them all morning
dawn finch
Entered a trance like state when setting up a reaction today. I was adding a reagent at a rate of 1 drop every 2 seconds to a vial chilled to -78 C in the glovebox and each drop only dispensed when my heart pumped blood into my hands, slightly increasing the pressure
broken sapphire
gm fellow slopheads
sterile bane
I wish I understood anything about chemistry. This stuff all seems really cool
dawn finch
One thing I like about experimental chemistry is that it is generally possible to understand when the assumptions and details are spelled out, unlike physics and math, where sometimes things never click cognitively
broken sapphire
liquid turn pink??
dawn finch
It's dark red now. Like wine
dawn finch
Making new cobaltocenes
The current step is an odd one. Essentially pulled out of thin air by the discoverer. You boil these highly reduced cobalt compounds at 110 C until they encounter another and extrude H2 gas in a bimolecular fashion
It's dirty and not scalable, but it will be enough to proceed.
As promised: the bugout kit
Trophy from a defunct lab. Last safety inspection: '95. But I got fresh filters on another expedition
broken sapphire
yummy chemistry juice 🤤
stoic rampart
yummy chemistry juice 🤤
the forbidden sprite
broken sapphire
*drinking sprite* haha... yeah... science bitch!!
dawn finch
Opened triflic acid in the glovebox today and it didn't even smoke. My colleague and I run it like ft knox, water levels appear to be in the low parts per million these days
https://carlwillis.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/uranium-chemistry/ Cool yellowcake recipe I found while doing my dinner reading
slim stratus
Opened triflic acid in the glovebox today and it didn't even smoke. My colleague...
What do u mean about the water levels comment what dose this relate to
dawn finch
What do u mean about the water levels comment what dose this relate to
The atmosphere inside the glovebox is supposed to be pure recirculating N2. There is a bed of catalysts inside it that destroys any oxygen or water present, down to <1 parts per million levels under ideal operating conditions
However, most gloveboxes are run dirty and the catalyst bed gets saturated with solvents, catalyst poisons etc and becomes gradually incapable of purifying the glovebox atmosphere to deep <1 ppm levels
Triflic acid is a superacid that reacts violently with water - it spontaneously smokes on contact with trace amounts of water vapor
dawn finch
No because I know exactly where it's been
My lab is full of mercury and I probably have a little on the brain
dawn finch
When a lab shuts down the real scalp takers scroungers and grungers come out
broken sapphire
i love it
dawn finch
An example
The rusted 1L drums of poison are a nice touch
LC50 of that shit is 45 ppm/4 hrs in rats
broken sapphire
is it when a lab is closing down
i would love to do that but with computer parts or books
dawn finch
Old lab computers are sad and weirdly nostalgic to me
broken sapphire
what an absolute dream date idea
dawn finch
I remember sitting and spinning in circles on a rolling chair in a small office in an old building where my dad ran his lab
Seeing all the windows pipes screensavers go by
dawn finch
what an absolute dream date idea
Tag team expedition
broken sapphire
I remember sitting and spinning in circles on a rolling chair in a small office ...
man that's an absolutely gorgeous piece of memory
what kind of old computers did he have
dawn finch
I remember Compaq machines with purple cases
Some ergonomic keyboards which I didn't like because they were hard to play flash games on
broken sapphire
aaah blessed
dawn finch
Long since outdated but I think it didn't matter because they were just stations to send jobs up to the cluster
broken sapphire
sleeper workstation material
id love to build a powerful computer but use a yellowed old computer case
slim stratus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s43nHvGdcOY this album cover goes hard reminded me of you
dawn finch
Home again for the first time in a long time
After living in LA the silence at night is like a black blanket
In the absence I can hear ringing and phantom noises of vacuum pumps
broken sapphire
welcome home sir
dawn finch
Watching documentary footage of manufactured landscapes with my dinner is my version of reading Hegel on nitrous
slim stratus
Watching documentary footage of manufactured landscapes with my dinner is my ver...
Lmfao
broken sapphire
yummy tube
novel briar
Looks like something from Hollow Knight
broken sapphire
pov you are a tale from slop world and people are reading you
dawn finch
Imprisoned in glass
dawn finch
broken sapphire
powerful costume
wheat girder
What kind of a cult is this?
slim stratus
High power level
dawn finch
What kind of a cult is this?
One of an alchymical nature
dawn finch
Who would win? Two trained inorganic chemists and an electric drill or one extremely stripped bolt
slim stratus
Bolts every time
dawn finch
Yeah I give up
slim stratus
Did you try calling the grease wizard
dawn finch
We need more friction not less
slim stratus
Maybe be nicer to it I always find that it lowers the friction in my relationships
dawn finch
I cannot be nice to my enemy 
slim stratus
<@460621122929426443> got dis one
You legit look insane in this pic goes hard af
dawn finch
untold dew
god i miss the lab
untold dew
newest laboratory computer
dawn finch
New guy I made
broken sapphire
whats his name
dawn finch
[CpCoCp^PhBr][OTf] I guess
broken sapphire
[CpCoCp^PhBr][OTf] my beloved
wheat girder
Omg I love sandwich molecules so much, but have never known more complex ones than Uranocene
stoic rampart
can I get my sandwich molecules with stuffed crust bread? extra cheesy?
dawn finch
Omg I love sandwich molecules so much, but have never known more complex ones t...
There are some frightfully complex ones out there
dawn finch
comforting
slim stratus
The creature
novel briar
comforting
Coral!
dawn finch
https://www.nature.com/articles/161402b0 what in gods green earth
novel briar
carcinisation
dawn finch
Emailed a new assistant prof asking for clarification on how he purified a rhodium complex in his postdoctoral work. Got a detailed reply with a wholesome ~ in it. Science is real and we can help one another
broken sapphire
i heard about a study where they made participants hunt for food while wearing mirrored glasses that modified their vision
this could be you
dusk sundial
My lab moments are just me getting angry over either a white board, a shell console, or both 
novel briar
jupyterlab moments
dusk sundial
Here it was mostly me lashing out at the code PLUTO because it would always get me negative densities whatever I did
But tbh it wasn't designed for what I'm trying to do with it, so I guess that's fair
dawn finch
slim stratus
A portal into the hell dimension
dawn finch
broken sapphire
what if we held hands in the glass box with the chemistry toys
dawn finch
First time I used one as an undergrad, my mentor punched into the other side and shouted "glovebox hug!" as the pressure spiked
She had a mischievous streak
slim stratus
Wish the best for her
broken sapphire
She was amazing
do you keep in touch? i email and say hi to all my favourite profs once in a blue moon
dawn finch
do you keep in touch? i email and say hi to all my favourite profs once in a blu...
A few times a year we talk briefly over text
broken sapphire
thats so sweet oml
dusk sundial
be me
trying out my physical setup on two different codes
one crashes from negative densities, the other outputs NaN
today will be a fun day
dawn finch
> be me
> trying out my physical setup on two different codes
> one crashes from...
pure terror
dusk sundial
pure terror
And I have meeting with my advisors in 4 hours
At least the initial setup is good. But nothing works after 1 iteration 
dawn finch
hopefully it's a gross little programming bug and the physics will go smooth when caught
dusk sundial
Thing is those physics are hard to capture numerically due to huge density gradients, the fact the first one fails (PLUTO, a grid-based Eulerian code) is not that surprising. But the second has been designed for those kind of physical applications and should work (some of the test problems even involve "worse" situations), so the answer to this bug may be hidden in the setup file I wrote based on the examples
broken sapphire
dusk sundial
This code is trolling me, I swear. When trying to construct the initial setup of my hydro simulation:
double rho = rhow * pow(r/rmin, -2);
double rho_norm1 = rho * rho0;
double rho_norm2 = rho / rho0;
printf("rho = %e, rhorho0 = %e, rho/rho0 = %e", rho, rho_norm1, rho_norm2);
Outputs :
rho = 5.273156e-17, rhorho0 = 8.819995e-41, rho/rho0 = 8.819995e-41
dusk sundial
TIL that in C, multiplication and division work the same
dawn finch
Uninitiated ones may not enter
dawn finch
Studying TEK (tabooed erotic knowledge a la Bataille)
novel briar
Studying TEK (tabooed erotic knowledge a la Bataille)
So disappointed this wasn’t about the fish
dawn finch
novel briar
why so shiny
broken sapphire
its where all the blue light goes when @elfin compass removes them from his environment
slim stratus
This goes hard
dawn finch
broken sapphire
what a cool device
dawn finch
why so shiny
For to entrap light
slim stratus
do NOT cum in a test tube
novel briar
Where's rainbow dash
dawn finch
broken sapphire
antidote potion
dawn finch
Ferrocenium BArF-24 salt
Interestingly, dark blue when viewed from above, violet when viewed from below
dawn finch
Crystallographers definitely agree with that assessment
broken sapphire
@wooden hamlet
slim stratus
when will gamer goober make steroids
dawn finch
Store bought is fine
broken sapphire
https://leyawn.bandcamp.com/album/bird-world
https://leyawn.bandcamp.com/album/return-to-bird-world
return to slop world
dawn finch
the healing universe of leon chang...
dawn finch
A bomb full of hydrogen. Ft. lots of Teflon tape
I whangjangled it together from some pipe fittings I found
dawn finch
Now there are two
radiant forge
Reckon that tastes like blue
broken sapphire
hey chemists
im working on a nomenclature system for describing meme templates, and ive noticed it resembles organic molecule nomenclature
e.g. I'm thinking a simple captioned image can be called 1-caption-1-slot, and a top-text/bottom-text meme as 2-caption-1-slot, and so on
can you help me figure out how to develop this system further? I was wondering in particular whether there are molecules that are structured (in their abstraction) meme templates or comics panels
elfin compass
hmm
dawn finch
It would require a clear articulation of what is naturally the caption and what is the slot
For organic molecules the reference point is also natural. The hydrocarbon skeleton with nothing extra
broken sapphire
caption is the text and image is the slot typically, and i understand that this is conventional (and frequently violated as a joke)
dawn finch
Great, now your convention is set
elfin compass
cis, trans, meta, para, ortho and such describe the structure
they're usually used as prefixes
dawn finch
Side text?
slim stratus
how do you synthesize estrogen
broken sapphire
maybe they should all be referred to as slots?
broken sapphire
how do you synthesize estrogen
google it
slim stratus
I was setting up to make a joke about diying
elfin compass
you could definitely use prefixes to describe the number of slots and their spatial relationship
might make sense to use anatomy terms
broken sapphire
I was setting up to make a joke about diying
ik i was countering the joke by taking it seriously and encouraging you
elfin compass
like dorsal, ventral, etc.
broken sapphire
lets leave that for after we figure out the first part
elfin compass
or have a standard for which way things are read
broken sapphire
just numbers will do nicely for now since it's gotta be easy to read
slim stratus
ik i was countering the joke by taking it seriously and encouraging you
I will be looking into it <333
elfin compass
i think expanding brain might be a good example to try to figure out how the naming system would work
broken sapphire
yeah good call
here's a closeup of the prototype i think the expanding brain fits into
elfin compass
maybe have terms for describing the general structure, and some term indicating whether pictures or words are present in a specific area
elfin compass
oh also maybe some kind of term for the number of layers and what's in them?
broken sapphire
image vs text?
broken sapphire
yeah i agree
elfin compass
in organic chemistry there are multiple ways of naming the same chemical structure for some things
but by convention they use certain ones over others usually
main thing is using the longest carbon chain as a base sorta
i think number of panels makes sense as an analogue of that
except it's more of table
so would have 2 dimensions to it
broken sapphire
WP-WP-WP-WP-WP-WP-WP or (WP)7
elfin compass
might be able to use vectors as an analogue as well, not sure how well that would work :/
slim stratus
I will be looking into it <333
hmmmm it seems like bio chemistry is super wild and I do not have the knowledge of chemistry to approach this but I'll look more
elfin compass
the one that's a bit more simplified
there's another one called a line diagram i think?
where the carbons are just dots and the bonds between them are lines
and then only other elements are represented by actual letters
broken sapphire
broken sapphire
yeah those might be perfect for describing object labelling memes
slim stratus
broken sapphire
https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/open-source-estrogen/ interesting
hell yeah!!! this is the sort of stuff i wanted you to look up
we should get into biohacking
slim stratus
Bio hacking for good: making estrogen
Bio hacking for evil: making tren
If I did estrogen I'd cycle on and off
Maybe at a low dose also
broken sapphire
maybe we can think of a meme as being composed of elements and relations, with elements being either words or pictures and the relations being how slots/panels are connected
elfin compass
yes!
elfin compass
are there any memes like this where the words and images are mixed across the sides rather than being sorted
I feel like there's an entropy joke waiting in there somewhere
like the brain on the bottom tapping into the potential difference (high concentration of brains on one side) to generate power by having some of the brains pass through to the other side and turn a turbine while doing so or something
dusk sundial
maybe we can think of a meme as being composed of elements and relations, with e...
This would allow for those memes where a situation (characters, whatever) is labeled, it's the relationship induced by the picture that is the skeleton
dawn finch
Pretty good but my favorite is Nesmeyanov
broken sapphire
why what does nesmeyanov mean
dawn finch
The one who does not laugh
elfin compass
What about Johnny b goodenough?
(I don't think his middle initial is actually b but not sure)
Edit: it's actually John b goodenough, his middle initial is actually b!
broken sapphire
dawn finch
Watching USCSB videos again with a grim set to my jaw. Psychically preparing for BLEVEs and severe pipe corrosion
Might have linked with a vacuum pump plug in Minneapolis. She has Edwards and Pfeiffer gear for the low
broken sapphire
finally, bisexual lighting compound has been isolated
slim stratus
finally, bisexual lighting compound has been isolated
he has synthesized bisexuality
slim stratus
glop of the day!!!!!!!!!
untold dew
it’s a pretty color. the antibody conjugates i used to work with were a similar red.
wind obsidian
wow i cant believe this has been sitting under my nose this entire time wtf
this is immediately my favorite place in this server
i should really meet more chemists i want to do biochemistry
dawn finch
So there are others...
wind obsidian
how much sleep do you get on average
dawn finch
5 hours in undergrad
6-9 in grad school (~3-4 am to 10+ am)
I can no longer maintain the pace of my early 20s
wind obsidian
based
dawn finch
novel briar
Chemistry mommy vlogger who unboxes new sigma Aldrich product drops
slim stratus
horror
dawn finch
Basically the Outwaters
dawn finch
dusk sundial
Shiny 😎
dawn finch
I just nearly blew myself up because some fucking rookie left a tank valve out of standard position
Never can let one's attention slip
wind obsidian
bto wtf are you doing lmao
dawn finch
bto wtf are you doing lmao
Hydrogenations with some nonstandard equipment
Like not a Parr shaker you feel me
wind obsidian
whatcha makin 😊
dawn finch
Can't discuss the specifics because it's a small enough subfield that it would probably deanonymize me
But I'm trying to bridge H2 and radical chemistry
wind obsidian
ooh cool
dusk sundial
wiggle wiggle wiggle
dawn finch
https://www.huyett.com/woodruff-keys meditating upon this
dawn finch
dawn finch
Thanks boss
deep helm
I see, Chemist at work, white square as head, in the style of the 20th century avant-garde, pre-war...spiritually of, but grasping for something beyond Cubism, Malevich's influence apparent..🤔
untold dew
smh wheres the ppe
dawn finch
I wear ppe roughly 5% of the time
dawn finch
I see, Chemist at work, white square as head, in the style of the 20th century a...
Neosuprematism
slim stratus
so I wanna make a rich brown bronze patina, like on a certain David Smith sculpture, but it was left out to age for 50+ years, I will be doing some testing to determine how to get that color if its at all possible. and I know some weird tricks secrets etc for ageing metal
dawn finch
Colleague ran an important experiment apparently during a walking brownout of consciousness and can't tell if he hallucinated the whole thing
Many of us now are like ambien sleepwalkers it seems
deep helm
Many of us now are like ambien sleepwalkers it seems
Zombie mode laboratory scene 🧟♂️
wind obsidian
i plan to make a hydrolysis oxy hydrogen torch and blow my house up
i am aware of my fate
im going to pump hho into my vents
dawn finch
Alea iacta est
wheat girder
Amor fati
dawn finch
wow.
broken sapphire
new personality types just dropped
broken sapphire
petard status: hoisting. . .
dawn finch
Maybe the most fucked up attempt at a recrystallization I have ever performed
From boiling HMDSO...
A solvent so greasy it has been called a stealth fluorocarbon...
slim stratus
https://www.youtube.com/@totalsynthesis/videos just found this devious chemistry channel
dawn finch
The YouTube chemistry community is surprisingly educational
untold dew
That Chemist’s smell tierlists are my favorite of his
dawn finch
dawn finch
Had my first explosion/fire inside the glovebox today
Didn't know this was possible
But I made something that really did not want to live
broken sapphire
<@&430987366841188352>
broken sapphire
dawn finch
Sacrilege
elfin compass
Yeast makes so many of these puppers
broken sapphire
Had my first explosion/fire inside the glovebox today
petard status: hoisted
sterile furnace
This is a dumb question, but was this like this already
broken sapphire
it's not a dumb question because i dont know either
dawn finch
Not seeing anything obvious in the wikipedia edit history
broken sapphire
is there like a slop world wiki where all entries are like this
sterile furnace
I am sus of it being a real thing that scientist actually know, HOWEVER, there have actually been weirder real things, so I wouldn't question it either way, fake or real
One of MANY weird things, there is an actual sea sponge named after spongebob. It is "Spongiforma Squarepantsii"
Another weird thing, but not really science based, the dot in a lowercase "i" or a "j" is called a "Tittle"
broken sapphire
its just ethanol and they didnt even bother editing the ipa pronunciation
dawn finch
Yeah it's literally ethanol with a bunch of dumb names
ivory crane
ethanol is the puppy dog of chemistry confirmed
dawn finch
So anyway i started blastin
Front O-ring swelled up and fucking decapitated a reaction I had running at 4 bar of hydrogen gas
dawn finch
Trying to couple H2 to metalloradical chemistry
Note the dismal brown color of the RHS tube
ivory crane
ah
tidal swift
Unrelated but the name of this channel makes me laugh every time I see it
west falcon
challenger moment
ivory crane
houston we have a problem
dawn finch
But the first time was well before I pressurized it
I was hand tightening the Teflon screw inside the glovebox when it ripped in half at the O-ring seat
west falcon
was it a you problem or an o ring manufacturer problem
dawn finch
The former. Viton O-rings are not rated to withstand the solvent I was using, but FFKM O-rings are >100s of dollars apiece and were globally back-ordered at the time
So I was raw dogging it with Viton
west falcon
just like nasa then!
dawn finch
Crack pipe hit a little different today
Surprise!! Got you there probably
Just a little flask
slim stratus
Crack pipe hit a little different today
Walter white ass
dawn finch
Waltuh
wind obsidian
I am sus of it being a real thing that scientist actually know, HOWEVER, there h...
yeah what about the sonic hedgehog protein
dawn finch
dawn finch
I was present when it broke and went for backup
It's usually full of boiling oil at 200 C and high vacuum (<100 micron)
dawn finch
Some tubing formerly connected to the bottom line
So the line was raw, condensing liquid oxygen into our traps - bomb squad type of moment
dawn finch
Some things you do for money and others for love
Unrelated link to above pump situation
ivory crane
https://ux1.eiu.edu/~cfsap/microwave.htm
that's a lot of words
i guess i have a bedtime story now
deep helm
What's The Knot about! :0
dawn finch
What's _The Knot_ about! :0
It's an accumulated lifetime of prose poetry and extreme fiction by Mike Gira of Swans
My copy just arrived from home
deep helm
Ohh nice! It must be pretty special if you're getting it sent over from home~
You should share an excerpt that you like with us +_+
slim stratus
when will elixir guid be posted
dawn finch
i dont know how to make elixirs. only slops
dawn finch
You should share an excerpt that you like with us +_+
it's a really uncomfortable read, i will find one of the more spiritual parts
wind obsidian
sounds like my kinda book
dawn finch
Taking it one page at a time. The clear product of a fermented mind and a lot of methedrine. But very evocative
An apparition in my empty room
Its origin
slim stratus
i dont know how to make elixirs. only slops
dam ok
dawn finch
gotta steel ya stomach for this one
extremely
not what i'm here for but it is what it is
slim stratus
omg same
dawn finch
Saw a lecture today that made me want to go back in lab and start pulling the slot machine until I fucking keel over
This fire is not dead
broken sapphire
ivory crane
teflon tape my beloved
ivory crane
oooh
tidal swift
Making a danger smoothie
slim stratus
looking at this image you know something straight up diabolical is about to happen
broken sapphire
gamer potion 🤤
ivory crane
ooh lasers
dawn finch
the reagent of the day is methylmagnesium iodide. the commercial 3 M formulation is an unhealthy pus-looking liquid that clogged my syringe, bubbled and turned into white solids in an atmosphere of almost pure N2...
dawn finch
got chills reading this
a cyber-necrotic instrument...
dumbfounded by the existence of this thing. it's so logical, but who would first reach for this?
undone inlet
Damn i would have never imagined such a contraption
Machine that requires the head of dead insects
dawn finch
dawn finch
proven cosmos
ivory crane
is that dual stir bar action i see
dawn finch
You can have as many as you want on one stir plate. There's no law!
dawn finch
Our glovebox freezer kicked the bucket today
MBraun has shafted us for the last time. I'm calling the HVAC heavies to get this compressor back in line, or doing it myself and dying in a Freon cloud I guess
ivory crane
"i know chemistry and basic electronics, therefore i can diy my hvac"
dawn finch
Definitely mount stupid dunning Kruger mode
However we are desperate
Rigorous mental training
dawn finch
Shit out of luck
This is uninterpretable. Where are the pins the Sears appliance guy from the video promised?
slim stratus
steal the copper and run
dawn finch
ivory crane
why does the fitting on that look so huge
dawn finch
in the last one?
that's a neoprene filter funnel collar i packed with dry ice powder to make a sort of bootleg cold finger for sublimation
ivory crane
no this
ik it's probably a normal fitting but ive only ever seen 24/40 so that looked massive to me
ivory crane
huh
undone inlet
I honestly didn't think anyone did work that actually looked like this and it's always really exciting to see
dawn finch
Tell us of its effects
dawn finch
I honestly didn't think anyone did work that actually looked like this and it's ...
Our highest reward is to see a different slice of the world
slim stratus
Tell us of its effects
effects:
cracked out of my mind smashing prs
also almost threw up
dawn finch
According to my fancy (and what will make for potent catalysts)
dawn finch
effects:
cracked out of my mind smashing prs
also almost threw up
That's the outcome of sipping mud honey potions
ivory crane
is this your job?
dawn finch
yep
ivory crane
what do you do mostly
dawn finch
mix of synthetic lab work (new metal catalysts) and catalyst screening for small molecule activation
small molecules being not pharma or organic chemist's definition of small - I'm talking N2, H2, CO2
dawn finch
basically a loop of making and characterizing new inorganic compounds yeah
ivory crane
fun
slim stratus
That's the outcome of sipping mud honey potions
going to learn to make the dark evil wizard strength potion taste better
its like the most bitter thing I have ever drank
dawn finch
Ingredients?
slim stratus
I pour a good amount of coffee gounds into the french press and not to much water, then I leave it to sit and steep over night
dawn finch
Yeeesh
slim stratus
in terms of ratio I go with 1/3 or 1/2 grounds to water
dawn finch
Any grit left in the final product?
slim stratus
also make sure to stir it
slim stratus
Any grit left in the final product?
surprisingly no
but its thick
like very thick
almost jelly like
some one at school thought it was a jar of jelly
dawn finch
Ayo this girl bringing a jelly jar to school!
dawn finch
almost jelly like
Maybe part of the power is psychological
It's about set and setting of the pre-workout at some level
slim stratus
yeah and it feels like a punch in the face when I drink it so that might contribute to the ampedness
(real word)
slim stratus
bro tip: drink some a little bit before, and then drink some directly before the set for the bad taste
slim stratus
tell me how u like it
broken sapphire
I pour a good amount of coffee gounds into the french press and not to much wate...
shrekcore cold brew
same vibes as the intro scene when hes prepping his special dinner and makes a candle out of his earwax
slim stratus
going to start doing meth as a pre
broken sapphire
back ot the good old days when men were men and the pre workouts had experimental stimulants that killed you if you did a sauna within 30 minutes of ingesting it (early 2010s)
slim stratus
the coffee looks genuinely disgusting I left it out a cup of it for about a week, probably has a large amount no of nothing good in it. going to try it again tomorrow morning and post a video of me pouring the rest out
ivory crane
please don't try the week old coffee
slim stratus
you cant stop me, I will try a sip before school. it will make my hear my thoughts.
dawn finch
quirkymaxxing by the spoiled food route
ivory crane
yummy
dawn finch
Day of terrors
dawn finch
Near miss with a very similar reagent today
I'm beginning to wonder what it will take to make me quit
It's not funny anymore
I'm 25 too
dawn finch
It feels even stranger knowing it wasn't my fault
All I did was open a freezer
And a vial placed by someone else fell out and broke
deep helm
Noooo @dawn finch , don't be manslaughtered by falling vials, who's going to keep trench tales from slop world running 😔
broken sapphire
I'm beginning to wonder what it will take to make me quit
do you already secretly want to quit?
slim stratus
I'm beginning to wonder what it will take to make me quit
to make you quit what?
slim stratus
And a vial placed by someone else fell out and broke
god thats really scary
I hope your ok and continue to be ok
I worry
dawn finch
Noooo <@187778937613582336> , don't be manslaughtered by falling vials, who's go...
A dirty job that someone must take on
dawn finch
do you already secretly want to quit?
There is no fallback plan
dawn finch
to make you quit what?
Lab work/PhD program
dawn finch
I hope your ok and continue to be ok
I'm out of the danger zone now I think
If the guy who put the vial in there hadn't been standing in front of me and told me what it was in about 2 seconds, I probably would have tried to clean it up. And then I would be in the ICU or worse
slim stratus
oh god
dawn finch
reached ultimate levels of conspiracy theory today as i realized two models of vacuum pump sold under different trade names by different companies are the same pump
dawn finch
Fine orange blades of new matter
I think this is the 10th previously unreported inorganic coordination compound I have made
deep helm
It's a pretty color! : O
dawn finch
Orimge 🍊
slim stratus
I think this is the 10th previously unreported inorganic coordination compound I...
woaaahhh
so bad ass
so pretty
ivory crane
dawn finch
The robot is too strong
dawn finch
Starting to wonder if our high vacuum line is a liability
ivory crane
is it constantly under vacuum?
dawn finch
Yep
ivory crane
slim stratus
omg thats so pretty
dawn finch
okay so where are you stuck?
for clarity these are much easier to draw as condensed skeletal structures if you've been taught those yet
have you read the corresponding section in your textbook?
are you able to tell the difference between the carbon chain and the things attached to it?
just trying to see where you're at
- you identify the longest contiguous carbon chain, use it as the base name
- you systematically list off the functional groups in the order that they appear on the chain
in doing so you number the chain so as to keep the functional group numbers as low as possible
first guess not looking at any books or iupac guide or anything is that it will be something like 1,7-dinitro-2,3-diamino-4,5,6-octatrione
do you see how that name sort of agrees with that drawing?
they indicate position on the 8 carbon chain
so this is what the software Chemdraw spits out
Chemdraw presumably is programmed to remember the IUPAC priority rules better than I do
you should review whatever book your instructor assigned to get the relevant ones
in general priority of functional groups is set by the heaviest atoms first to branch off the main carbon chain - in this case the O atoms of the ketones
A book that could be helpful is Klein's "Organic Chemistry as a Second Language". Which is basically what it is - another language with rules
In practice chemists do not bother naming compounds like your teacher asked you to. We just draw the structures because those contain all the relevant information, then label them with abbreviations, common names or just numbers like "3"
I would recommend reading any organic chemistry book because it's going to start with much simpler examples that will build up your confidence and introduce the rules one at a time
Klein's Organic Chemistry is by far the easiest start. Alternatively, there are various websites (google "Organic chemistry nomenclature") that can get you there
Good luck!
ivory crane
aaa scary ochem
dawn finch
This is the worst and least interesting part of organic chemistry by far
ivory crane
it sure would be a shame if someone were to google libgen
dawn finch
Just go to libgen
dawn finch
https://libgen.yncjkj.com/ I just got it off of here
dawn finch
Was surprised I didn't have it but it's been about 10 years since I read Klein
Try again and take your pick
slim stratus
what was it
dawn finch
I missed it so I do not care
Long exposure of moonlit beach somewhere I went this weekend in the company of thoughtful people
slim stratus
drink it
ivory crane
yummy carcinogens
dawn finch
ivory crane
oooh
dawn finch
Our syringe pump was DOA when I tried to restart it about 5 minutes before I needed to do this reaction step
So I added dropwise by hand standing there for about 10 minutes
dawn finch
dawn finch
dawn finch
Edc
deep helm
Influential member of the Chick-fil-A Barbecue Sauce fandom
dawn finch
I do not waste a drop
The rubber thing is a weird little doodad for building up huge amounts of air pressure by hand for chromatography
Inherited from a much beloved departing postdoc
dawn finch
the conspiracy is stonewalling me yet again
undone inlet
the conspiracy is stonewalling me yet again
HOW MUCH DO THEY PAY YOU TO SAY THAT
Pretend you are my grandma who always lulled me to sleep by explaining who was manufacturing and distributing the pumps under different shell companies
dawn finch
HOW MUCH DO THEY PAY YOU TO SAY THAT
They don't want the people to know this but it is so true
I found out when I was trying to find a manual to repair one (lost cause, it turns out the PTFE diaphragm was blown out)
But KNF Neuberger and Edwards sell the same pump with the same manual. Just one is painted blue and one is painted red
There is no record I can find of a collaboration or ownership of one company by the other
dusk sundial
Maybe it's a case of some parts being bought at the same company by both KNF Neuberg and Edwards?
dawn finch
Perhaps
broken sapphire
HURRAY
dawn finch
Actively struggling to calm down and not go to lab at 1130 at night like a tweaker
dawn finch
Reached the point in my PhD where I see that too many doors have been opened by becoming experimentally competent, more good leads are available than can be followed, and 2 years of ruthless zero-sum choices remain
So much is left on the cutting room floor in a lab. The people who know the most leave - and they do it every single year
Before I know it I will be gone too
dusk sundial
The possible paths are so many, but our lifetime is finite and we have to choose where to spend it
dawn finch
My glovebox but not mine. Mood though
dawn finch
Not my reaction
ivory crane
ah ok
ivory crane
what is it
broken sapphire
what is it
new matter
dawn finch
A new member of the very small family of extant cobaltocenophanes
ivory crane
uh oh
dawn finch
Feels like life is a highly specialized time lapse movie set to wasted - nightcore - lil uzi vert
Chopping out O-rings with razor blades in the Vac Atm box
Changing LN2 traps
Waiting until the next gathering of scientists allows me to pretend that drying the wets and wetting the drys has gotten us somewhere
dawn finch
Defused a bag of explosive sodium amide powder- stained yellow-brown with peroxides
Will take photos next time I find a nasty surprise at the back of the gb
broken sapphire
are you safe there
dawn finch
As safe as anybody, I guess. I talked to our safety officer before removing the bag for quenching and they weren't aware of the possibility it was shock sensitive, so unfortunately the firsthand learning started
https://people.umass.edu/~jmfield/Treatment.html Most of the concrete procedures I could find to deal with it come from alarming documents that look like this
ivory crane
Defused a bag of explosive sodium amide powder- stained yellow-brown with peroxi...
holy shit
random peroxides are always fun to discover...
dawn finch
Analytical balance plate popped off, revealed to have been held together by superglue
I believe this lab is actually cursed by a presence
Just holding on by my fingernails until I go to a dinner tomorrow where I see someone I would walk on hot coals to talk to
dawn finch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=N4VxBAGFQ2o There is a great deal of obfuscation from the manufacturers on how to repair these. Luckily we have youtube, the university of life
dawn finch
Reading Bretherick's compendium of reactive chemical hazards when I stumbled on this
ivory crane
Reading Bretherick's compendium of reactive chemical hazards when I stumbled on ...
the msds for this chemical says in case of spills wash with water
dawn finch
This is some deep shit
ivory crane
i can only imagine a water line bursting at some factory and the new guy runs in with a hose
if you spill water on yourself and wash it off with more water, are you wet from washing yourself or are you wet from the water you initially spilled on yourself
and how can you tell once you've washed all the water off of you?
elfin compass
I was looking up stuff about dihydrogen monoxide and apparently the IUPAC recommended name besides water is Oxidane
Literally never heard it called that before
ivory crane
that sounds like a product name wtf
elfin compass
Did you hear about the origin behind the name for the dark matter candidate "axions" hehe
ivory crane
no?
elfin compass
The scientist named a hypothetical particle with certain properties axions after a laundry detergent brand because they would clean up the problem of dark matter ha
ivory crane
oh lol
elfin compass
Actually might have been a different problem but cleaned up a problem
dawn finch
I was looking up stuff about dihydrogen monoxide and apparently the IUPAC recomm...
Also azane for ammonia
dawn finch
Went to the science dinner - I don't know why these things are so charged, for me, but they are
For just one moment I am with those who, sight unseen, like me for who I am - I don't fight them for resources, it's not knives out over our particular hypotheses, like it is in my home lab
broken sapphire
why is every other thing "gamer goober 2004" posts heartbreaking to me 😭
dawn finch
Low key this is sad boy channel with blurry pictures of labware
deep helm
Gamer goober 2004 we all like you for who you are, we won't fight with you for resources!
dawn finch
Gave myself an evil mind virus weighing the same vial on 5 different analytical balances
dawn finch
Gamer goober 2004 we all like you for who you are, we won't fight with you for r...
Truly this is a place of safety also
dawn finch
About to call a ferocious all hands meeting regarding the diffusion pump
dawn finch
ivory crane
seems like a proper receiving apparatus
dawn finch
The tubing swelled up to like an inch. The box coughed up 100 mL+ of organic solvent. We've never seen anything like it
dawn finch
11 pm oil change. Just to feel something
Actually after that oil change I can't feel my fingertips on my right hand. I think it was laced
dawn finch
broken sapphire
lab coat drip incoming
dawn finch
dawn finch
dawn finch
Got brunch with a new postdoc. 2 hrs evaporated like nothing. I think I could talk with them about chemistry endlessly
We were politely prodded out of the cafe
broken sapphire
thats blessed asf
dawn finch
slim stratus
chunky goop
dawn finch
https://www.usalab.com/edwards-e2m80-dual-stage-rotary-vane-vacuum-pump-56-5cfm/? Childhood memories have been overwritten by pump knowledge. I'm staring at these and contemplating the power
dawn finch
Don't trust any one or any thing
The gifts of the microscopes to our understanding of cells and organisms are so profound that one has to ask: What are the gifts of the microscopist? Here is my opinion. The gift of the great microscopist is the ability to think with the eyes and see with the brain. Deep revelations into the nature of living things continue to travel on beams of light.
–Daniel Mazia, January 1996
dawn finch
On revisiting this it kinda reads like a quote from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. Still slaps though
Sludge has advanced in purity to incipient yellow crystals
elfin compass
I think I remember hearing that yellow is generally a bad color to see in chemistry how often is this the case
dawn finch
It is often true for organic compounds but this compound is genuinely yellow
ivory crane
oh no
dawn finch
It's okay I'm gonna send the Big Batch properly
dawn finch
18 hours in lab today because the voices told me to cook harder. Many foolish things were done - fried a valuable electrode, or perhaps it was already gone
dawn finch
A sealed "leakless" EDAQ reference electrode. Nobody knows how they work
ivory crane
oof
that sounds extremely expensive
you know it's bad when they wont show you the price
dawn finch
These electrodes in particular are fascinating to me. They claim a range of indispensable properties, in my own hands they have worked OK, even in conditions that would challenge other electrodes, but the mechanism of operation is protected as a trade secret. There isn't even a patent. The only things we can infer about them come from a FAQ released by the company - and there is nothing in the open literature on them except "we used them"
The only existing contender is possibly the leakless bipolar reference electrode and even those are hand-fabricated and probably have nanoliter leaks
dawn finch
I sent that beautiful blue cobalt chloride powder all over my fume hood trying to add it to this reaction against a stream of inert blanketing gas
dawn finch
Going to the botanical gardens with the new postdoc. Time to appreciate the finer things (cacti)
dawn finch
Reading a book abt insane oil man grindset
This guy is talking abt cheating oil inspectors by swapping samples so that the volatiles literally boiled out of the tanker before they arrived to final receipt of 60k barrels
dawn finch
Book is "Inside the Petroleum Industry" by Louis Abramson Jr
100 pages of plainspoken sigma male behavior
dawn finch
dawn finch
Bored on plane ended up bidding on an infrared camera on Ebay. More as follows
dawn finch
Major hazmat incident across the street from my living place and I wasn't even involved. Man with hazmat suit working with what appeared to be ~half liter of liquid bromine on his apartment balcony at 6 am
Respect the audacity of the dawn time crack cooker (RDJ: Bromine is not involved in crack specifically but you know what I mean)
undone inlet
Wild, I wonder what they were up to
dawn finch
No good apparently
dawn finch
Back to slops
After three repeated crystallizations the product is now usable
$1000 street price from Sigma Aldrich
broken sapphire
robot curry 🤤
dawn finch
The drug soda is sold out. Productivity is about to plummet
And caffeine intake is about to zoom up
But I did have a lovely afternoon at the botanical gardens with my friend. Humanity is slowly working its way back into my system
dawn finch
dawn finch
Accidentally vaporized a whole week screening magnesiation conditions instead of developing new chemistry
Mindless crank behaviour
Not sure why this happened in hindsight
dawn finch
elfin compass
https://youtu.be/nMJExYjDjtI?si=UNLnSn2OL097xijc saw this and thought of you folks
dawn finch
finally. realistic dark academia
dawn finch
I would sacrifice any amount of yield for purity btw
elfin compass
Is there a lot of talk about the potential of engineering yeast or bacteria to make new enzymes for certain reactions or is the science not quite there? Have you used enzymes for certain steps before? Also do you do flow chemistry?
ivory crane
pure products? what's that? 
dawn finch
Is there a lot of talk about the potential of engineering yeast or bacteria to m...
It is very rarely practical to carry out chemistry enzymatically. Frances Arnold has the leading program for coaxing unnatural reactivity out of enzymes, it is really good but I don't see myself using what they've done anytime soon
Her group even has an example of directed evolution of enzymes that make carbon-silicon bonds, which is unheard of in nature
In general the chemistry of enzymes is rarely compatible with organic solvent, which is necessary to dissolve most compounds of interest
An example of a genuine practical enzyme method is probably the recently reported "carrot reduction", which works because there is no engineering. You take carrots from the store, chop them up and put them in
I used to do flow chemistry as an undergrad, it's not really applicable to my current work and we don't have the hardware but I think it's generally a very interesting space
ivory crane
An example of a genuine practical enzyme method is probably the recently reporte...
carrot my favourite reducing agent fr
is the reduction actually done by enzymes
elfin compass
is the reduction actually done by enzymes
The reducing agent is a chemical in the carrot, the specificity is probably from enzymes or an enzyme in the carrot
dawn finch
The reducing agent is a chemical in the carrot, the specificity is probably from...
Yeah this
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/break-out-purple-carrots better writeup. Also links to an actual discussion of a reaction run with yeast
ivory crane
i heard thatchemist mention something about carrots having reducing properties once, but i didn't know it was because of an enzyme
good to know
dawn finch
What else in a carrot could you think of as a reductant?
A kinetically competent reductant
elfin compass
Uh is NADPH kinetically competent
dawn finch
Usually not on its own
That was a rhetorical question- the reductant is there, but generally is turned over by an enzyme. I don't think NADPH would react efficiently with those substrates on its own
Remembering what it is all for
ivory crane
ah yes, my favourite element, A
dawn finch
ah yes, my favourite element, A
Old letter for argon
broken sapphire
Remembering what it is all for
i hadnt heard of this guy. epic https://iep.utm.edu/gehong/
dawn finch
A sealed "leakless" EDAQ reference electrode. Nobody knows how they work
I broke the EDAQ
No epoxy is proof against battery solvents
deep helm
Aw it sounds happy! Sounds like it has healed indeed
dawn finch
Aw it sounds happy! Sounds like it has healed indeed
It turns out I put the pump body on wrong by exactly 120 degrees - everything fits together perfectly, just wrong 🙂 sounds even better now
Exploding flowerpot chemistry (footnote 2)
dawn finch
When she sends you exotic conditions from the early German organic lit 
dawn finch
dusk sundial
Damn, that's hot
dawn finch
It works a factor of 20x better when I put it back together (again, this time intentionally) the wrong way, with the pump body rotated by 120 degrees
dawn finch
dawn finch
dawn finch
"drunk pianist at da robot bar"
dawn finch
Before I accidentally wiped the sequencer
dawn finch
The sound at the beginning of On Sight permeates my dreams and waking life also
dawn finch
Adorable
deep helm
Before I accidentally wiped the sequencer
dial-up internetcore
deep helm
Deutsch!
deep helm
It's an artefact!
Btw when changing the direction of rotation, you're going to have to swap Z1 and Z2
dawn finch
Btw when changing the direction of rotation, you're going to have to swap Z1 and...
I started cranking it by hand in both directions before I saw yr msg but it seems to have done no harm (Yet..............)
dawn finch