/sci/ - Science & Math

can someone PLEASE fucking list the divalent metal charges. Google has surprisingly failed me.

I know Fe is either +2 or +3 for example, but I don't know the rest.

i know this thread is cancer but please theres gotta be one non-asshole chemist out there

>senior in high school
>want to become doctor
>not sure if smart enough

any easy methods of predicting how well you'll do in a pre-med curriculum? I've heard way too many stories of people who were supposedly "smart" and "overprepared" getting like a 3.0 freshman year..

How can reincarnation be theoretically possible?

Isn't every individual cell just generated and then killed off? Your body is made up of a bunch of cells that will eventually die with you, how can your consciousness regenerate itself with an entirely new set of cells?

What are the longterm effects of taking 50-120mg of zolpidem tartrate per day?

Why did human cerebrums develop so much more than all the other species of animals. Superior intelligence would benefit ANY animal... why did it only develop in humans?

explain what this code does:

typedef struct {
int a;
short s[2];
} MSG;

MSG *mp, m = {4, 1, 0};
char *fp, *tp;
mp = (MSG *) malloc(sizeof(MSG));

for (fp = (char *)m.s, tp = (char *)mp->s; tp < (char *)(mp+1);)
*tp++ = *fp++;

I'm a undergrad Physics student and I have a big interest in programming / computer architecture / data structures et. al. These subjects are applicable in a Physics career?

>I'm interested in advanced mathematics. I've been studying using websites and wiki articles, and I'm currently reading a textbook on measure theory.

According to my calculations.... your retarded