lots of people have been asking me what i do all day at school for 40hrs a week. so ill try and explain it without making things sound easier or harder than they are.
i only have two courses, which have a lecture once a week for 3 hrs at a time. so when im not in lectures, i have about 34 hrs of time to kill. so far i have been working on catching up and refreshing the old brain on 1st and 2nd and 3rd year chemistry that i forgot while i was working last year. my courses have assignments, so i spend a good chunk of time on those as well.
the rest of the time im in the lab synthesizing, characterizing and polymerizing. usually i synthesize a ligand, complex it to a metal centre and then characterize it to make sure that i got what i was aiming for. then this metal centred complex is usually a catalyst and i test to see how effective it is at polymerizing alkenes. (you are likely using polymers right now, so it is extremely relevant).
a lot of the chemicals i use are air sensitive so i have to use them under a nitrogen atmosphere either on a $4000 piece of glassware or in a sealed glove box that has a nitrogen atmosphere. so its pretty fun.
the other day i was getting rid of one of my chemicals that is flammable on contact with water. so i got a huge bucket of ice water and scraped this white powder into the ice water which let out good sized fire balls. now if that isnt sweet...
anyway, the compound i made today was called
(mu-chloro)-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl-3,5-di-tert-butylsalicylaldiminato)copper(II). check it out at your local drugstore.
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when you are a chemist, want to join my drug op and make some sweet candy for me?
i think we need to break you out for a coffee
its a tough life being a student hey? slacker.
HEY! I know what a polymer is! Yeahhhh! Guess what? We're going to have a Polymer Paradise Week in Grade 5. The plan is to make slime, goobers, boogers, and Oobleck. Is that what your compound was?!
I'm a chemistry freak!
Is it gripe water or ovol? Now that is practical.
lab work is fun. keep it up. i played with a protein that glows green under a UV light the other day. i got to put a mixture through hydrophobic column chromatography and separate it from other proteins, when i put the test tube under the light, it glowed green...so did my fingers. ha. it was fun.
Sounds like fun for a guy like you...
Name your next one korialdehyde, just to keep it simple, IUPAC naming is old school. Hey do have an extra lab coat? I need one for a class I am taking, and I am cheap. Lab coats don't grow on tree, at least not here in Calgary.
See you friday, I think.
yikes...You and I so use different parts of our brains. It is super cool you know what all that is...I got lost in the first sentence there somewhere though...hehe. Have good one!
thanks.
now i don't want to become anything chemistry related.
great.
too bad the Bible says science isn't even true.
what a waste of time.
no, worse than that... it's IDOLATRY.
Dave,
Your so Chris Chrisman. Maybe you should go to college. And Wayne Grudem says the Bible is true. Come on, Grudem vs. Science I'd bet your life savings on that one.
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