Tag: Chemistry

Another example of why its important to let the students choose what they want to learn. By doing this they show initiative and independence. Co-authored by Milena and Alexys Advanced Chemistry XII students were given this challenge by Dr. Paulianda Jones, their chemistry teacher. At the st...

Normally, I feel like I need time before I can review new music. I need to know all the ins and outs of the album, and everything about the artist. I want my articles to exude expertise, and I don’t want to act like an expert if I don’t actually feel like one on the subject. But this tim...

I’m working on a little machine learning project that uses chemical information to predict a few properties of materials. As part of this project, I needed to extract thermodynamic properties of a variety of materials. One of the sources I’m using to obtain data for this project is the&n...

Quantum chemistry codes historically have tended to stand on their own either as open source or commercial codes. These programs each had unique input files and were designed to run from command line calls or batch job submissions. More recently, a number of codes have become available as python pac...

You don’t need a chemistry degree to know that this field is chock full of fascinating characters, unexpected turns of events, and plenty of dramatic discoveries. Sometimes these events can be ironic, like the invention of dynamite, and other times, they can be tragic, like the discovery of ra...

The first half of 2023 is filled with lab, attended my friend’s seminar, lab, company visit, lab, book club, lab. Yap, mostly i circle around the lab lol. I looked at my old pictures from January till June and mostly my lab, my reagent, and my instrument. It kinda makes sense because i have...

The oxidation of ethene can also happen in presence of alkaline KMnO4. It is very important method. Potassium permanganate is a strong oxidizing agent. There are two types of oxidation of ethene may occurs in alkaline KMnO4 depending on the reaction condition. Oxi...

People are often surprised to learn that my background is chemistry. Data science job adverts almost always specify physics, mathematics, or computer science. So how does a chemist become a data scientist? Here’s what worked for me. I started my undergraduate degree in chemistry at Imperial...

At the heart of lithium’s charm lies its atomic dance. Being the lightest metal, lithium flaunts an atomic number of 3, signifying three protons in its nucleus. Its electron configuration, 1s² 2s¹, hints at a singular valence electron, a characteristic that plays a pivotal role in it...