• Re: xkcd: Unsolved Chemistry Problems

    From John Savard@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Jun 9 18:25:25 2024
    On Fri, 7 Jun 2024 16:30:55 -0500, Lynn McGuire
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    xkcd: Unsolved Chemistry Problems
    https://xkcd.com/2943/

    Sounds like a good start to me. I fight with ionic chemistry all the
    time in my job.

    Explained at:

    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2943:_Unsolved_Chemistry_Problems

    And here I always thought the P in pH stood for Phenopthalein!
    (Phenopthalein is what is used to make a fancy kind of litmus paper
    that, instead of only turning red or blue, changes to a color from a
    continuous range from red to white so as to indicate the precise level
    of acidity or otherwise of a liquid.)

    John Savard

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