C6H14O5

08.01. filed under: !. personal. play. science.


what’s got you so distressed?  it really is not all that bad is it?

posted on 08.02 at 01:37 AM.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)


Hm, there are 23 hydrogen atoms in the structure you’ve drawn. Grey carbon backbone, red oxygen atoms and then white hydrogen. But oxygen can really only form 2 bonds. Your empirical formula (C6H14O5) works but the structure doesn’t correspond. But maybe it doesn’t really matter; fuck it all.

posted on 08.14 at 12:56 PM.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)


@alina: Yeah, well, that’s what happens when you know “fuc al” about chemistry and you employ a google image search as your main research assistant. If only I could have gotten that juicy Gov. grant perhaps this wouldn’t have happened.

posted on 08.14 at 03:31 PMjmorrison


@jmorrison: oop. what I really meant to write was that I absolutely love your site, read it regularly (too often, really) and I’m delighted that you finally posted something I could legitimately comment on.

posted on 08.25 at 03:48 AM.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)


Caffeine?

posted on 08.30 at 07:09 PM.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

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