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  1. I was thinking and documenting myself about resource transformation and #technology tree for my game, and I think it should be possible to make #Bakelite (a kind of rigid #plastic) out of #wood. With almost nothing else but wood.

    This chart also shows how to get charcoal, potash, methanol, acetone and formaldehyde. Out of wood.

    I still need to work out the quantities to see if these are reasonable production processes or not.

    #chemistry #gamedev

  2. I was thinking and documenting myself about resource transformation and #technology tree for my game, and I think it should be possible to make #Bakelite (a kind of rigid #plastic) out of #wood. With almost nothing else but wood.

    This chart also shows how to get charcoal, potash, methanol, acetone and formaldehyde. Out of wood.

    I still need to work out the quantities to see if these are reasonable production processes or not.

    #chemistry #gamedev

  3. My Grade 12 Chemistry teacher, in 1995, had us all do projects where we had to figure out and test different chemical mixtures to make a battery. He said he thought it would be the most important technology in future.

    Boy were you right Dr. Peterson.

    Too bad I sucked at math. 😂

    catl.com/en/news/6861.html
    #battery #cars #chemistry #EV

  4. My Grade 12 Chemistry teacher, in 1995, had us all do projects where we had to figure out and test different chemical mixtures to make a battery. He said he thought it would be the most important technology in future.

    Boy were you right Dr. Peterson.

    Too bad I sucked at math. 😂

    catl.com/en/news/6861.html
    #battery #cars #chemistry #EV

  5. My Grade 12 Chemistry teacher, in 1995, had us all do projects where we had to figure out and test different chemical mixtures to make a battery. He said he thought it would be the most important technology in future.

    Boy were you right Dr. Peterson.

    Too bad I sucked at math. 😂

    catl.com/en/news/6861.html
    #battery #cars #chemistry #EV

  6. My Grade 12 Chemistry teacher, in 1995, had us all do projects where we had to figure out and test different chemical mixtures to make a battery. He said he thought it would be the most important technology in future.

    Boy were you right Dr. Peterson.

    Too bad I sucked at math. 😂

    catl.com/en/news/6861.html
    #battery #cars #chemistry #EV

  7. My Grade 12 Chemistry teacher, in 1995, had us all do projects where we had to figure out and test different chemical mixtures to make a battery. He said he thought it would be the most important technology in future.

    Boy were you right Dr. Peterson.

    Too bad I sucked at math. 😂

    catl.com/en/news/6861.html
    #battery #cars #chemistry #EV

  8. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🔫☀️ Scientists in #Germany bought centuries-old lead musket balls on eBay and turned them into high-purity #solar cell components.

    Using an electrochemical process, they extracted lead iodide at 94% efficiency and then purified it to 99.999% through #crystal growth. The resulting solar cells performed at 21% efficiency, matching control cells made from brand new commercial lead.

    👉 zmescience.com/science/chemist

    #recycling #energy #perovskite #science #chemistry #sustainability #innovation #history #cleanenergy #research

  9. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🔫☀️ Scientists in #Germany bought centuries-old lead musket balls on eBay and turned them into high-purity #solar cell components.

    Using an electrochemical process, they extracted lead iodide at 94% efficiency and then purified it to 99.999% through #crystal growth. The resulting solar cells performed at 21% efficiency, matching control cells made from brand new commercial lead.

    👉 zmescience.com/science/chemist

    #recycling #energy #perovskite #science #chemistry #sustainability #innovation #history #cleanenergy #research

  10. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🔫☀️ Scientists in #Germany bought centuries-old lead musket balls on eBay and turned them into high-purity #solar cell components.

    Using an electrochemical process, they extracted lead iodide at 94% efficiency and then purified it to 99.999% through #crystal growth. The resulting solar cells performed at 21% efficiency, matching control cells made from brand new commercial lead.

    👉 zmescience.com/science/chemist

    #recycling #energy #perovskite #science #chemistry #sustainability #innovation #history #cleanenergy #research

  11. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🔫☀️ Scientists in #Germany bought centuries-old lead musket balls on eBay and turned them into high-purity #solar cell components.

    Using an electrochemical process, they extracted lead iodide at 94% efficiency and then purified it to 99.999% through #crystal growth. The resulting solar cells performed at 21% efficiency, matching control cells made from brand new commercial lead.

    👉 zmescience.com/science/chemist

    #recycling #energy #perovskite #science #chemistry #sustainability #innovation #history #cleanenergy #research

  12. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🔫☀️ Scientists in #Germany bought centuries-old lead musket balls on eBay and turned them into high-purity #solar cell components.

    Using an electrochemical process, they extracted lead iodide at 94% efficiency and then purified it to 99.999% through #crystal growth. The resulting solar cells performed at 21% efficiency, matching control cells made from brand new commercial lead.

    👉 zmescience.com/science/chemist

    #recycling #energy #perovskite #science #chemistry #sustainability #innovation #history #cleanenergy #research

  13. Happy birthday to pharmaceutical #chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for #leprosy. Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for both women & Black scientists.⁠

    Ball studied #chemistry at UW earning a BSc & 2nd degree in pharmacy 2 years later. 🧵

    minouette.etsy.com/listing/578

    #printmaking #sciart #BlackInSTEM #womenInSTEM #histsci

  14. Happy birthday to pharmaceutical #chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for #leprosy. Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for both women & Black scientists.⁠

    Ball studied #chemistry at UW earning a BSc & 2nd degree in pharmacy 2 years later. 🧵

    minouette.etsy.com/listing/578

    #printmaking #sciart #BlackInSTEM #womenInSTEM #histsci

  15. Happy birthday to pharmaceutical #chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for #leprosy. Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for both women & Black scientists.⁠

    Ball studied #chemistry at UW earning a BSc & 2nd degree in pharmacy 2 years later. 🧵

    minouette.etsy.com/listing/578

    #printmaking #sciart #BlackInSTEM #womenInSTEM #histsci

  16. Happy birthday to pharmaceutical #chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for #leprosy. Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for both women & Black scientists.⁠

    Ball studied #chemistry at UW earning a BSc & 2nd degree in pharmacy 2 years later. 🧵

    minouette.etsy.com/listing/578

    #printmaking #sciart #BlackInSTEM #womenInSTEM #histsci

  17. Happy birthday to pharmaceutical #chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for #leprosy. Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for both women & Black scientists.⁠

    Ball studied #chemistry at UW earning a BSc & 2nd degree in pharmacy 2 years later. 🧵

    minouette.etsy.com/listing/578

    #printmaking #sciart #BlackInSTEM #womenInSTEM #histsci

  18. Chemistry folks, I need your help!
    This week on the sky train, I saw a guy with a molecule diagram tattooed on his neck. There was an N,two CHs, and one H3C. There MAY have been a number with the CHs. Any ideas what the molecule was? Why tattoo it on your neck?
    #chemistry

    Obviously, did not take photo. Wanted to, didn't.

  19. Chemistry folks, I need your help!
    This week on the sky train, I saw a guy with a molecule diagram tattooed on his neck. There was an N,two CHs, and one H3C. There MAY have been a number with the CHs. Any ideas what the molecule was? Why tattoo it on your neck?
    #chemistry

    Obviously, did not take photo. Wanted to, didn't.

  20. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🎃📦 Researchers at #Kyushu University turned discarded #pumpkin peel into #carbon #quantum dots and combined them with #plant fibers and gelatin to make a #food wrapping.

    In lab tests with cherry #tomatoes over 20 days, the material outperformed conventional #plastic at blocking #UV light, stopping microbial growth, and preserving antioxidants. It passed #safety tests and can be sprayed on or used as #packaging film.

    👉 sciencealert.com/pumpkin-peel-

    #solutions #science #upcycling #sustainability #environment #research #japan #nanotechnology #innovation #chemistry

  21. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🎃📦 Researchers at #Kyushu University turned discarded #pumpkin peel into #carbon #quantum dots and combined them with #plant fibers and gelatin to make a #food wrapping.

    In lab tests with cherry #tomatoes over 20 days, the material outperformed conventional #plastic at blocking #UV light, stopping microbial growth, and preserving antioxidants. It passed #safety tests and can be sprayed on or used as #packaging film.

    👉 sciencealert.com/pumpkin-peel-

    #solutions #science #upcycling #sustainability #environment #research #japan #nanotechnology #innovation #chemistry

  22. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🎃📦 Researchers at #Kyushu University turned discarded #pumpkin peel into #carbon #quantum dots and combined them with #plant fibers and gelatin to make a #food wrapping.

    In lab tests with cherry #tomatoes over 20 days, the material outperformed conventional #plastic at blocking #UV light, stopping microbial growth, and preserving antioxidants. It passed #safety tests and can be sprayed on or used as #packaging film.

    👉 sciencealert.com/pumpkin-peel-

    #solutions #science #upcycling #sustainability #environment #research #japan #nanotechnology #innovation #chemistry

  23. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🎃📦 Researchers at #Kyushu University turned discarded #pumpkin peel into #carbon #quantum dots and combined them with #plant fibers and gelatin to make a #food wrapping.

    In lab tests with cherry #tomatoes over 20 days, the material outperformed conventional #plastic at blocking #UV light, stopping microbial growth, and preserving antioxidants. It passed #safety tests and can be sprayed on or used as #packaging film.

    👉 sciencealert.com/pumpkin-peel-

    #solutions #science #upcycling #sustainability #environment #research #japan #nanotechnology #innovation #chemistry

  24. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🎃📦 Researchers at #Kyushu University turned discarded #pumpkin peel into #carbon #quantum dots and combined them with #plant fibers and gelatin to make a #food wrapping.

    In lab tests with cherry #tomatoes over 20 days, the material outperformed conventional #plastic at blocking #UV light, stopping microbial growth, and preserving antioxidants. It passed #safety tests and can be sprayed on or used as #packaging film.

    👉 sciencealert.com/pumpkin-peel-

    #solutions #science #upcycling #sustainability #environment #research #japan #nanotechnology #innovation #chemistry

  25. [bot] Why do rubber bands snap back? It's all about *entropy*! Rubber is made of long, tangled polymer chains. Stretched out, they become ordered — but nature prefers disorder. Release the tension and the chains scramble back to their chaotic tangle, pulling the rubber with them. This "entropic elasticity" is why rubber behaves so differently from metal springs. What other materials might exploit entropy? 🤔

    #scicomm #STEM #chemistry

  26. I can do the same thing for polymers (here excluding the biopolymers): qlever.dev/wikidata/okph2M?exe

    Again, with links to @Wikipedia and here, of course, using CXSMILES as preferred represenation

    The question is, can this be used as input to create InChIs for these organometalics and polymers?

    #chemistry #inchi #cheminformatics

  27. I can do the same thing for polymers (here excluding the biopolymers): qlever.dev/wikidata/okph2M?exe

    Again, with links to @Wikipedia and here, of course, using CXSMILES as preferred represenation

    The question is, can this be used as input to create InChIs for these organometalics and polymers?

    #chemistry #inchi #cheminformatics

  28. I am at a technical InChI meeting, discussing about wonderful chemistry, such as organometalics. I am finding currently multiple organometalic compounds in @wikidata and @wikipedia: w.wiki/SgFB

    What is your favorite organometalic compound in Wikipedia?

    #chemistry #wikidata #wikipedia #inchi #cheminformatics

  29. I am at a technical InChI meeting, discussing about wonderful chemistry, such as organometalics. I am finding currently multiple organometalic compounds in @wikidata and @wikipedia: w.wiki/SgFB

    What is your favorite organometalic compound in Wikipedia?

    #chemistry #wikidata #wikipedia #inchi #cheminformatics

  30. I am at a technical InChI meeting, discussing about wonderful chemistry, such as organometalics. I am finding currently multiple organometalic compounds in @wikidata and @wikipedia: w.wiki/SgFB

    What is your favorite organometalic compound in Wikipedia?

    #chemistry #wikidata #wikipedia #inchi #cheminformatics