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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
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Sorry to interrupt the intense discussions!
I've been sitting in the same position and working on this lab report since 2PM (I just finished a couple minutes ago, at 11PM), it was fun for a while until I realized that I have six spreadsheets open and my poor antique computer refused ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
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Background: I wrote this post with intention to publish on my personal blog. When I was done, I found it pretty relevant to the atmosphere of the Chemistry Blog. Also, I thought it would be unfortunate to leave this topic unattended.
As the end of the semester approaches, I find that ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
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This past week we lost a 1st year chemistry graduate student to suicide at UC Berkeley. I attempted to do some googleing to see what kind of suicide rate chemistry students have, but there seems to be no recent numbers or studies on the matter. Which is understandable, because ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
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I HAVE A SIMPLE QUESTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Caller: Hi, this is Dr._ _ _ and I am calling from _ _ _ _ and I have a simple question. I am looking in the XYLL column manual and I was wondering if you could tell me the maximum concentration of hydroxide eluent I ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
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The authors of this paper (Chem. Eur. J. 2008, early view) have synthesized a series of new estrogen analogues where the B and C ring of estrone (1) and 17β-estradiol (2) are replaced with a simple alkyne spacer. The steric bulk of the omitted rings is replaced by suitable substitution ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
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Customer Types
RING,RING,RING the telephone sounds, and the hair on the back of your neck begins to rise. You know as soon as you pick up that phone you will be talking with someone who has no clue about what they are doing . They will expect you to be their ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
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Scenario:
You are a chemist working in a lab running state-of-the-art chemical instrumentation. You analyze materials that are incorporated into products that can mobilize or destroy the population of the earth as we know it.
Questions:
Since you are a CHEMIST/ANALYST running the above mentioned systems what would be your first ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
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Sad news coming out of Warsaw today. A 27-year old graduate student at Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna (Military University of Technology) suffered severe injuries while performing experiments towards his thesis. He lost both hands and received severe burns on his face. The explosion did not cause a fire. Apparently, his research ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
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Hello!
My name is Phil. I'm doing my Ph.D. at ETH Zürich (that's right, in Switzerland), where I'm working in the field of Medicinal Chemistry. This is my first post, hooray!
One of my group jobs is to take care of the LC-MS system we bought last year. You know, that magic ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
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I've unfortunately been suckered into representing my boss (Heino Nitsche) for the prospective visits this spring. My boss is unavailable due to teaching, and I will be doing the typical office meet-and-greet for him. So, if anyone wants to chill in his office with the best cheap wine I can ...
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