16 MAY 2012 by ideonexus Atoms Form Compounds With Properties Very Different Than Their Comp...
It was long thought in Chemistry that compounds exhibited traits partway between their component parts.
Folksonomies: history,chemistry

16 MAY 2012 by ideonexus Biological Explanations Require Non-Biological Evidence
The explanation for a phenomenon in a living thing must also work outside of living things.
Folksonomies: biology,chemistry

09 MAY 2012 by ideonexus Burning a Diamond
Faraday describes and experiment with Davy where they set a diamond on fire.
Folksonomies: chemistry

21 MAR 2012 by ideonexus Indestructible Atoms
To destroy an atom of Hydrogen would be like trying to introduce a new planet to the solar system.
Folksonomies: chemistry,atoms

18 MAR 2012 by ideonexus Radioactive Elements "Descend" from One Another
Creating "families".
Folksonomies: chemistry

18 MAR 2012 by ideonexus Call for Nitrogen Fixation
Crookes predicts the failure of farming to support a growing population and calls on chemists to work on improving production.
Folksonomies: chemistry,environmentalism,prescience,agriculture

16 MAR 2012 by ideonexus The Concept of the Chemical Bond
...is based on things we cannot see or measure and only exist in terms of probabilities.
Folksonomies: chemistry

31 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Chemistry VS Biology
Chargaff relates how he was drawn to Chemistry for its clarity surrounded by the unknown and later biology for its lack of clarity but surrounded by the known.
Folksonomies: biology,chemistry

30 JAN 2012 by ideonexus The Illusion of Taste
When we taste sweetness, our tongues are not responding to the C, O, or H, but to the molecule.
Folksonomies: chemistry,perception,senses,taste,experience

28 JAN 2012 by ideonexus Consider Structure in a Molecule's Nature
Not just the quantity of its elements.
Folksonomies: chemistry,molecules