/sci/ - Science & Math

tungsten master race

>>15936496
Carbon, because I like organic chemistry

I like silver too, fren.

>>15936496
for me it's Vanadium

OMG I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP5lz2CYNR4

>>15936510
Silver is epic

Titanium

boronchads rise up

>>15936496
Iron, definitely

>>15936510
>>15936516
>>15936923
enjoy your oxides morons

>>15936926
>mad oxybros want to hang out and chill
ishygddt

>>15936496
Osmium is pretty cool, with osmium tetroxide you can either synthesize syn-diols from alkenes or observe cellular structures with transmission electron microscope.

>>15936967
Too bad it's toxic

>>15937550
That's the best part, you can simultaneously enrich tissues with high electron density osmium atoms and kill the enzymatic activity in the cell so it doesn't destroy itself

>>15936496
My current crush is bismuth, but I have a long time passion for all transitional elements

>>15937781
>trans elements
>he likes elements with dicks
haha gay

>>15936496
Vibranium for sure.

>>15938041
the rainbow element was already giving a hint

OH MY FUCKING SCIENCE IS THAT THE HECKIN' PERIODIC TABLE?!

>>15936507
I wonder what it is that draws so many people to organic chemistry specifically. Endless variety I suppose? I think I’m one of the five chemists in the world who actually prefer inorganic just from a materials science perspective. Same with mech versus EE. In mech you can
see how every single part interacts with everything else. It’s why children are fascinated by trains and steam locomotion. There’s something inherently Jewish about electricity.

>>15936513
>>15938083
The nigger brain cannot comprehend the inherent wonder of the taxonomy of the material world, nor do they have respect for the millennia of work performed by Western civilization to create the phones they type these comments into while they wipe their asses with their hands or eat from their communal bowls like chimps.

For me it' platinum, a.k.a. lil'silver or superior silver

TFW no iridium crucible.

>>15938103
>Endless variety I suppose?
Pretty much this and the fact that it's somewhat like LEGOs, i.e. the rules and building blocks are simple, yet the complexity that can arise from them is mesmerizing - each functional group has its own properties and interacts with other functional groups in a particular manner etc. It's a huge and cringe simplification, but I hope you get it.
That's at least the reason why it got me interested when I was 15.

>>15936496
Tellurium
smells like garlic
I like garlic bread

>>15938202
Yep, that’s understandable. I suppose it’s the autistic rigidity of inorganic that I like. I also have a retarded interest in alchemy in the esoteric sense of the word, which inorganic fits well into. There’s a lot of overlap though. You O-chem guys get to have the whole field of biochem which is fascinating especially because of its overlap with genetics.

There was a professor at Berkeley who managed to engineer a strain of yeast that could pump out morphine instead of ethanol. I wonder where that strain is now? It’s gotta be housed somewhere…

>>15938121
Platinum is like superior silver and titanium is like superior aluminum.

>>15936573
hello fellow ti enjoyer

>>15938131
tfw no iridium electrical discharge machining

>>15938314
aluminium is cheap copper and titanium is what iron should have been

>>15938347
Titanium is cool for number of reasons
>extremely strong yet very light
>corrosion resistance
>extremely high melting point (even higher than iron)
>"biocompatible" which makes it a good option to fix bone fractures or something similar which is also cool

>>15936496
Niobium

I like the name

>>15936496
Aluminium because it is strong enough to make a lot of things while also being light. And best of all, it's very corrosion resistant

>>15938890
You mean Aluminum

>>15938103
I don't think that many people are drawn to Org.Chem. most people I know (chemistry undergrads and molecular biology undergrads) have a deep hate for it. 2nd year Org.Chem test have at most 50% pass rate at my uni, each year they make additional seminar groups for people who have to repeat the whole course. That doesn't happen for molecular biology, inorganic chem. physical chem. Most students are lazy fucks that are scared of thinking and only frantically read their notes a night before, something which Org.Chem. punishes much more that other subjects. Same with organic synthesis, you can't cram your way into performing good procedures. Both pen&paper and lab Org.Chem. is where a prepared and mature person thrives, there are few uni courses that grant you so much freedom as organic synthesis (you get your own glassware, locker, table and other necessary equipenet). I greatly enjoy 'strong inference' type of science, which historically are: Org.Chem., molecular bio and high energy physics, but unfortunately the old ways are being forgotten and replaced with whatever molecular biologists who hate physics, math and Org.Chem. are doing.

>>15938219
relation of biochem to org.chem. is a bit different that you might think. All biological chemical reactions are catalysed by enzymes, makes possible reactions and available synthetic pathways quite different from those a pure organic chemist would choose. What biochem shares with org.chem. is understanding of the structure of organic molecules and some lab techniques.
> [...] engineer a strain of yeast [...]
That's more molecular biology or genetic engineering than genetics, and it's even further removed from org.chem. than biochemistry

>>15938890
>>15939049
oh, good, here we go again. Ahem.

Americans are retarded because IUPAC has officially deemed it to be aluminium.
Everyone else is retarded because it was aluminum first and last I checked they didn't bother changing the heavier analogue of palladium to be called platinium, so fuck off with that "well it's a metallic element" gripe.

There, now the truth has been spoken on both sides and neither side is happy.

Neutronium

>>15936496
Iron, because all else strives to be iron.

>>15939434
Most of the mature chemists I know prefer o-chem. Maybe not students, but professionals. That's my anecdotal experience anyway. But the relationship between students and o-chem is interesting. I've encountered the same jokes about o-chem at several different univerities - that it strikes fear into people, that o-chem (as curriculum) is the devil, that you're going to get destroyed by o-chem, etc.

My theory is that it bifurcates into two different realms of study. Study via rote memorization and study via internalization. The latter works for inorganic and you can get away with memorizing rules and heuristics. However eventually in the course of your studies, you'll encounter some heavy-duty academia where memorization doesn't cut it anymore because you have to extrapolate the principles and be creative. This is where internalization comes in - the idea is that you study something and you understand why it works, not just how it works. It's the difference between following a recipe to make a fine meal or having enough years of experience to simply make a fine meal yourself because you understand the principles of what makes a meal good. So anyway, all this to say, o-chem to some extent requires bridging the gap between what has worked for otherwise successful high school students and undergrads using memorization to internalization. You usually learn it in your second year, so it might be the first time a student encounters curriculum that demands more of them than simple memorization.

It's not just that way for STEM either, any advanced field of study will eventually require internalization. I remember a higher level philosophy class in particular where my usual strategy of simply plugging in the right buzzwords and structure in my essay didn't cut it. The professor gave me a C on that (first ever) and basically told me I was full of shit. Had to level up my game from there and actually think about what I was writing.

Molybdenum is always a favorite of mine.

>>15939538
FeChads, rise up

>>15938103
Pretty pic anon
Have a happy christmas the lot of you

Technetium and Promethium. Extremely useful and hardly anyone even knows they exist.

Whatever element pussy is made out of lol. Jk I’ve never had sex

Palladium, the weird valence structure and hydrogen affinity stick out to me a lot

>>15936496
Si. It's Simply better.

mercury is cool

quintessence

>>15938103
Holy based

>>15940216
Stfu Nergal

>>15939448
You are a Europoor, your opinion is worthless. The poos, Chinese, and Arabs will continue calling it how we do, and they will continue manufacturing everything in inches

>>15940031
Based promethium chad

>>15936496
>liking silver as your favorite element
>mfw

>>15939696
From my experience the likes and dislikes of chem subfields in mature chemists are unchanged from their student days. Each one likes his specialty the most and the distribution between org. inorg. physical, theoretical, quantum, etc. is roughly even.

It's a shame only org.chem. is such filter. Biochemistry, although it is too a "undergrad killer", especially for med-students is much easier to brute force. I remember reading former med-students/practicing physicians talk about their experience with biochem and they all fell into rote memorization.
> "To this day I remember the longest molecule name from the book!"

"The student as nigger" rings true even today!

>>15936496
Oxygen...

>>15936496
Hydrogen. Because it's the original element.

>>15936863
Boron is Based!