Mona Clark ⚧ @mona@computerfairi.es

#chemistry

What I would really like to do is start amassing equipment needed for some routine quantitative analyses. I've done many titrations in my life and volumetric analysis is what I know best, but I'd like if possible to develop methods that are more specific and more apt to automation. Titration with coulometric generation of reagents seems like it might be a feasible amateur project.

@bea @kara_dreamer Yes, we have some rather wide-ranging interests, but it gets in the way of actually completing things. Our greatest actual achievement so far has been a number of completed UT stories which are up in various places. But we haven't actually finished anything in many months.

@bea @kara_dreamer Oh, numerous! There's Kara's and Kel's magical practice, for example, and Kara's desire to take up handicrafts such as wood-carving and fabric-dyeing. There's the Undertale writing that I assist Kara with. Also I've an idea for an original novel I'd like to thrash out some day.

I should perhaps start posting more #chemistry stuff here. I've had a number of amateur chemistry projects I want to start working on, although they must take a lesser place on the list of priorities than most of the other things that @kara_dreamer and the rest of us wish to work on.

@Elizafox @shekkiesqueaks Oh, no offence taken! In fact it's struck me how appropriate that I should have awoken as a transwoman at this particular age. 42 turned out to be the answer to everything after all...

@softgoat Hm, the subtle approach _does_ seem to work!

@shekkiesqueaks I'm 42.

@h @ghost Elsevier and all their fellow monopolists of scientific publication are mere gatekeepers of and parasites on scientific discovery. I despise them.

@boots Remind me why the people who do such things are regarded as innovators

@boots What?! Why?

@whitequark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-Fluoro-L-threonine is one. Fluorocitric acid is another

@whitequark well, now I know where how all those quirky and uncommon biological organofluorine compounds like fluoroacetic acid come from

@softgoat sounds rather appealing I admit

@Sharkbutt Good luck!

@Sharkbutt agreed. I've rather liked having a placid corner to stay in, although sometimes I do rather wish there were more traffic in this instance that I've chosen *wry smile*

@Sharkbutt Greetings, Becca! *curtsies*

(Yes's strange 90125 album is pretty bad, but it has this _one_ perfect song on it.)