Mar 29, 2012
The Beilstein Dictionary (German/English) was compiled by the Beilstein Institute’s scientific staff to help users of the Basic Series and Supplementary Series I to IV of the well-known Handbook. It has about 2100 entries and contains pretty much all the German words occurring in the Beilstein Handbook, apparently, as well as common abbreviations, alphabetically listed with their English equivalents. Copyright date is 1990, but it’s …
The formation of a wave-like interference pattern when photons, electrons or other particles pass through two narrow slits and impinge on a screen or detector on the other side is the ultimate demonstration of quantum reality: individual particles behaving like waves.
This experiment, Young’s interference experiment, also referred to as Young’s double-slit experiment works with electrons, neutrons, atoms and even molecules. The odd thing is that classical physics cannot explain what happens. How do the …
Mar 27, 2012
We already had Ph.Diddy…now we have Ph.Diva – Three weeks left to the conference deadline but on the gel is total mystery band…
Mar 26, 2012
The Royal Society of Chemistry once again hits on a novel way to capture media and public attention by drawing attention to a flaw with a recent episode of BBC forensic drama Sherlock. In the episode, a periodic table is seen hanging on Sherlock Holmes’ wall, but it’s a dusty ancient version, the RSC suggests. The org proclaims that pioneering chemist Dmitri Mendeleev would be turning in his grave to …
Mar 22, 2012
UPDATE: 2012-03-26 Two weeks off the pop. Follow-up blood test on Thursday. Given that the half-life of GGT is 14-21 days or thereabouts, I am assuming that if my serum level of this enzyme has halved by Thursday from the value that was recorded at the Fenland Study, that the wee spike was essentially down to alcohol consumption the few days before that blood sample was taken rather than something like gallstones, liver disease or …
Mar 21, 2012
Still, lifeless, unchanging…how did the Moon get so boring? Here’s what a few billion years of volcanic activity and meteoric bombardment did for the old guy…you’d want a rest after all that too…
