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[bavan]

Hello everyone I am bavan from USA. I am new here.

[Killabee]

Hey,

Young aspiring chemist from the States here, haha. I was getting awful grades studying Business and Economics - ultimately I realized that it's because I hated it. Took me long enough. I'm changing my major to chem and switching my cakewalk civics courses to chem, math and phys.

It's unbelievable how much more exciting sciences are if you're actually motivated to study and learn them.

[lazipeter]

HiHi
My name is Peter from Hong Kong, and I m currently studying in Secondary school
(a ed level like high school) I am sitting for the HKALE (A pubic exam that determines whether I can enter University). And I m gonna study something about chemistry in university if i can.
I am very enthusiastic about chem and i hope i will help in answering the questions within my horizon and get helps from asking questions here!!

[Fridushka]

my name is Frida, im 19, from Lebanon, im studying pharmaceutical chemistry at NDU as my BA degree.
im very happy being here, actually its my 2nd day ..i would like to spend most of my time here by posting and being helpful as much as i can..although i know a little because its still my first year..but i would like to keep in touch in my spare time. cheers

[gfunk]

Hello!  I'm G and hail from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (also known as the coldest "large" city in the world).  I'm 22 and I just graduated a couple weeks ago with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in chemistry with a focus in organic and biopharmaceutical chemistry.  Right now I'm finalising my application for grad school.  Woohoo.

However, right now I'm working in aquatic and analytical chemistry.  Not my strength, but hey, it's still chemistry .

[RVM45]

I'm 52 years old. I took several courses in Chemistry at Purdue University-- Took first semester Freshman Chemistry twice; second semester once...

Took the first semester Organic twice...

The second time they divided the lab portion from the Lecture ( a3/2 split) and I actually got a "B" in the Lab portion.

I also got a "C" in a three hour Qualitative analysis.

I was actually a Chemistry major for one semester at Purdue...

I'm a very Left-brained person; who didn't fully understand that the Right-brained TAs were skating by; every time I asked them to "Explain" they instead "Demonstrated"--a quite different thing...

To this day, I have a latent hostility to inarticulate Right-brainers.

I finally got my hands on "Grandad's Wonderful Book of Chemistry".

It definately shows the "How" of setting up a small home lab. Now I'm looking for a "Why".

As to your big "No-Nos"--I will never work with explosives--because they scare the beejeebers out of me. I have an absolute horror/phobia of blowing fingers off.

I used to do drugs--I repented--and I have no desire to chance the current draconian laws.

That leaves me wondering precisely how I can justify a home lab--

I'm sure that there are at least a few products that one could synthesize more frugally in the home workshop (Especially for people committed to self-sufficiency)

And I'm also convinced that there are still potentially profitable and patentable reactions--that are still reasonable candidates to be discovered in a small lab...

Its just that at present, I'm at a loss...

But I really groove on the idea of having my own Chemistry lab...

..RVM45     

[kilroy]

Hi...

I´m from Sweden and I´m working in the Nuclear Power Plant Industry. I´m a Senior Specialist and also the supervisor of the analytical laboratory. We are analysing ppb-levels (actually ppt-levels too) of metals and ions of chloride and sulphate.

Nice to be here!

[mer-mer-mer-mer-mer]

Hello everyone, I'm an inorganic analyst with experience in ICP-AES, ICP-MS, LIBS, CVAFS, CVAA and GC/MS and have researched various matrix effects of LIBS and ICP-MS. I am currently working on determining the influence various matrices have on analytical results of LIBS.

My favorite show of all time is Futurama and am an avid homebrewer.

[semuthitam84]

hi guys...

My name akbar..I just join this ChEng forum..I working as process engineer at one of the engineering design firm (Oil & gas Engineering) in Malaysia.Now, I doing process design for upstream process. This is my 1st compy and I already working for 2 years. I would like you guys to share your experiences here to gain my knowledge as process engineer.

Nice to join this forums. Hope your guys have a good day..

cheers..

[dysprosia]

Hello everyone and thank you for letting me join your forum. A few days ago I decided to Google about chemistry forums after one of my favorite forums was not available on the internet. I was bored and thought "I wonder if there are chemistry forums?". Chemistry was my first "hobby interest" beginning in the ninth grade of high school. By the time that tenth grade rolled around (1968) and I could take a chemistry class I was already hooked on the subject. I had figured out mathematically how many elements there would be to each period and had constructed my own style periodic table of the elements up to element 168. From there I used various methods of extrapolation to predict the physical properties of the unknown elements. My table has been revised over the years as increasingly accurate data became available. As of at least ten years ago I have seen mention of relativistic effects that are far more complicated than I can comprehend. It seems that those effects must be accounted for in my extrapolations. If anyone is remotely interested in this geeky endeavor I welcome you to contact me on this forum. If not please bear with my questions.
I also would like to mention that this was the only forum in the first few pages of the search results that looked promising to me. Someone had posted about the lack of stable isotopes for the element Tc. I have never liked the pat answer that says that the neighboring elements have all the possibilities covered leaving Tc no choice as to be radioactive. Since 1968 I have pondered the why, someday perhaps we will know.
I am here to learn and share.

Ted

[Richarson]

Hi everyone!
i am richarson.i am from china.I am an university graduate.Our family manages a chemical plant.I do not like chemistry,but my father hoped that I am engaged in the chemical industry.So I must study chemistry knowledge now.I register this forum's goal is understands the overseas chemical industry and Makes different country friend.
 

[Shalhoub]

Hello,

I hate chemistry but I'm stuck with it. (I Must study it to take over the family business which is selling Laboratory equipment.)
How can I fall in love with chemistry like you people have.

[cth]

Hi everybody

I am 30 years old, I come from France and I am currently doing a postdoc in Sweden. I am more specialised in coordination chemistry, crystal engineering and crystallography.

I have been visiting this forum for a couple of weeks now and it seems interesting. Well done. 

[LoveInQuanta]

Hey hey!

My name is Maia, I'm a 23-year-old "freshman" (not really, I have 1.5 useless Humanities degrees under my belt) headed for Environmental Engineering. To do this I must take Chemistry, and am having a good time at it so far. However, my brain is a little rusty at thinking scientifically at times, and so I am very likely to be asking questions more than answering them.

I AM doing Engineering, it's true, but it can't be denied that I am and always will be head-over-heels for Astrophysics, General and Special Relativity, and the possibility of big and beautiful unknowns out there like space travel, time travel, and other "impossibilities." But hey, you can only work in a coffee shop for so. many. years. before you just want to do the practical thing, and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics is not that right now.

In my free time, I run, hike, fly airplanes, write screenplays in my head, and love life.