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Noticed this mountain coming in to land at Surabaya, Indonesia. Hmm, that’s a big mountain rising out of nowhere. Then I saw the one lurking in the background….

Why do school teachers make students memorise the first 20 elements? Why 20? At least stopping at 18 (Ar) would make sense. Why go all the way to Ca, stopping just 2 elements into a completely new period? Misses the whole point of the PT. /rant #ozchem #ChemEd

Pound of Sodium vs Water

Congratulations to Len Lindoy, just recognised with an AO in the Kings Birthday Honours List! Very well deserved. #ozchem

Giving this a little retweet in honour of Len's excellent AO award today... #ozchem

We have a 3-year postdoc position available, starting in October, to work on molecular capsules for catalysis. Click on the link below to apply! 👇 Happy to have informal chats about the post - send me an email. Application deadline 6 July. edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Support the Periodic Tower of Elements Lego project! ideas.lego.com/s/p:8b77f7bc02…

Now with page numbers! Destined to be my favourite uncited publication...! 😆 rdcu.be/eqWMt

I start with 10% the volume of the bottle of 0.1 M silver nitrate. For 100 mL AgNO₃, add 2 M ammonia until the initial precipitate redissolves (~8 mL), add 15 mL 2 M KOH, then NH₃ again to dissolve the new precipitate (~10 mL) then add 30 mL 5% glucose. Excess NH₃ slows it.

New open access collaborative paper with my colleagues from the ACAxtal 2024 Transactions Symposium on 'Advances in structural science: Education, outreach, and research applications'! pubs.aip.org/aca/sdy/articl…