Recent content by Stratosphere

Is there a way to "remove" functional groups? I see a lot of pages online that show how you can change them, but not how to completely remove one from a molecule. Is it even possible?

Yeah, I think you're right, I changed the electrodes to carbon, which has eliminated the problem, now I'm getting H2 O2 at the correct places now. So what do you think happened? The chlorine was reacting with the iron forming iron (III) chloride?

So, today I was bored and decided to play around with some water and electricity. I took a 9v battery and attached 2 steel wires at both terminals, then I attached 2 steel screws to the ends of the wires. I used a bit of NaCl to speed up the process too. When I placed the electrodes in the...

I'm confused as to what the theory behind this is, I've checked on wikipedia, but it gives a rather convoluted explanation, can anyone clear this up for me? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid-base_extraction What is this method trying to isolate, only salts? Or is this a valid method for...

Unfortunately, finding the whole package is nearly impossible.

I like this girl, who ever it is. I don't know how much of it is makeup and photo-shop though.

Do you guys think Friedrich Nietzsche was pretentious? Somebody I was talking with the other day brought this up, I've only read "Beyond Good and Evil" and that was a while ago, could someone refresh my memory?

Sounds like your classic idiot. You would hope he learned his lesson the first time.

I only said that in reference to high speed, I thought as long as I didn't get run over, it would be safer on a motorcycle because of the not so sudden stop.

Well, my dad has a friend who used to ride bikes a lot in his youth. the problem is that he lives 45 minuets away from us, not to mention that he is usually busy. Edit: I forgot about another family friend (kinda of a family friend at least) who rides, bu he rides Harleys, I want a sports bike...

:smile: What kind of bike did you ride?

Now that I've got my drivers license, I've been trying to convince my parents to let me get a motorcycle license. The only problem is they think they're too "Dangerous" for me to ride. Unfortunately it looks like I won't be able to go for my motorcycle license until I'm 18 :frown: I've...

Last night on The Tonight Show, there was a guy by the name of Lior Suchard who did several strange things. He claims to have telepathic powers, which he "Demonstrates". I don't know how I would explain how he guessed the name of that song and how he knew the girls name was Katy, what do you...

It so happens that my friend also has the "Starting Electronics" one, I'll be looking into both of them.

I understand complex numbers, if it has complex analysis, I'm sure I'd be able to learn enough to get by. But is The Art of Electronics practical? Would it enable me to make basic electronics such as a simple calculator?