Corny Chemistry Spot

  Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which had hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty ~ Galileo Galilei       The simple human mind satisfies itself only by merely believing that it knows sufficient enough to live another day. It knows that one life is never enough to conquer the entire knowledge of the world, and when it gets stuck in the realization of its incapability, it ceases to exist. A very long list exists showing people committing suicide owing to their realization of lack of power for understanding things a regular human being is incapable of. From classical artists like Vincent van Gogh, to modern artists like Avicii, the self-inflicted thought of lack of power to gain complete knowledge of the discovered as well as unexplored paths of nature cripples a man's faith to live another day in guilt and concern. I hope I didn't scare you or put you in a state of existential crisis by letting...

     Hello chemistry fam! How are y'all doing? I know its been a long time since I posted on my blog. Truth be told, the number of viewers have significantly decreased on my last posts, but that's not the real reason why I did not post these days (been more than a month actually). I had already prepared data for my posts long ago but simply could not motivate myself to update my blog. I originally created this blog not just to post about amusing chemistry topics but also to sometimes post about the harsh realities of life. As some of my readers know, I had completed my Bachelor's in Chemistry way back in August and did not want to pursue my Master's immediately thanks to all these online classes and lockdowns that simply disinterest me in education. I'm sure you all would agree that a chemist is totally useless without his practical skills and let alone dream of developing them sitting at your house. I see my friends advancing ahead of me and juniors about to comple...

     In my previous post, I had mentioned how the f-block elements never belonged to the main table and how they would cause havoc in the main table if we tried including them. If you had thought about this a little simpler, the answer lies within. What do you believe, would be the main reason the periodic table is handy and containing plenty of hidden information? The arrangement of elements are in such a manner that it shows several linking properties within itself known as the periodic trends. Keeping in mind of these trends and the 28 f-block elements, did you ever think about the contradictions these elements would make if they were inserted into the regular/main table?      The trends that follow across periods and groups are violated when these 28 elements are inserted in the main table. Do remember, that when you are inserting these elements, they cause a skip of the succeeding elements as well and we are rather not dividing the table into two and ...

      Man cannot discover new oceans unless he possesses the courage to lose sight of the shore . Growing up as a chemist, we all would have neglected certain parts of the subject that appeared confusing or complicated. I, for once, swear on myself that out of 10 topics in the subject, I had at least skipped 3 of them!. A typical student, needless to say a chemist, tends to avoid the understanding part of a minimum of one-tenth of the syllabus put in front of him. One would rather mug them up in some weird memory sequence instead of breaking our heads over understanding it. ( Quantum chemistry would be the perfect example for this very situation). Lucky students like myself, had the opportunity of facing the periodic table in my second year of college. Understanding the true nature of a 118 elements wasn't a simple task. In fact, my lecturers covered only let's say, 25 elements from the whole. Out of the 25, only 6 or 7 were discussed in detail.      A fe...

       I can imagine half of the viewers immediately closing this page by just taking a look at the title, but believe me readers, we've been reading/learning the periodic table the wrong way ever since its introduction to us. The periodic table had taken several turns before arriving to what we see of it today. My fellow chemists would agree that the Modern periodic table wasn't the first to be invented by mankind. The periodic table originated based on "trends". These trends usually depend on the physical properties of the elements or sometimes just a similarity complex. The fundamental classifications started out in several ways.      From  Döbereiner   ( pronounced as "doo-ba-high-nah") as triads that showed triplets of elements in an arithmetic pattern. The "Octaves" of Newland that arranged elements in sets of eight, just like an octave in classical music theory. I'm pretty sure that any chemist would've come across both of these at...

       The end of something is the commencement of another. Being a student in this era of woke and questioning mindsets is a tough job, and choosing a subject that you're passionate of is even more difficult. Out of all the people that I've met in my entire life, I could daringly say that a minimum of 6 out of 10 hate the subject " Chemistry ". Now my very thought when I see them fearing just the subject would retaliate often. The question that keeps arising within me is, "Why do people/students fear Chemistry?". Isn't it just a normal subject like any other? Well frankly speaking, the world works around different perspectives and I was too young to realize that.     The sheer urge towards the subject was created when I was barely an adolescent. Call it the work of attraction or the teacher's motivation, either way I was somehow into this subject. Yet, the more I moved towards my teenage, the more people I saw who were afraid of it. The question tha...