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[challenge entry] The Future of Law Enforcement is Elemental, my dear Watson!
my dear Watson!

From the Future Law Enforcement challenge. See all 110 entries (closed)

(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 11:27, archived)
# That's rather woo
Nice lighting
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 11:37, archived)
# Thank you
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 11:38, archived)
# Imagine that ushering you into a cab at midnight in Romford because you've had to much to drink

(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 12:02, archived)
# Sorry but that's blatantly not elemental copper.
/chemistry police
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 12:04, archived)
# Sorry not a chemist
it's described as Tetraamminediaquacopper, whatever that is, found at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 12:06, archived)
# Well, normally for a first offence, I would let you off with a caution
but given the seriousness of the circumstances, I fear a custodial sentence is inevitable

/chemistry judiciary
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 12:08, archived)
# well, you're just a periodic table of justice, aren't you
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 12:19, archived)
# 'Angings too good for em, at least take away her house!
/knee-jerk overreaction blog
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 12:20, archived)
# Damn the injustice for not knowing my periodic table - Usually just get some tampax when the time comes
but now I'm enraged to riot against our mysterious elemental oppressors of which I know not of their model form!
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 12:26, archived)
# Mind telling me where the Jahn-Teller axis is in that coordination sphere?
*wins appeal*
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 13:03, archived)
# I'm reading that line in my Inorganic prof's Kiwi accent
Win!
I remember him lecturing on symmetry of tridentate ligands in octahedral complexes. "There are two possible symmetries, mer and fac, but you have to watch how you say that!"
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 14:06, archived)
# We had an old chap for organometallic chemistry
who would present all sorts of compounds with little snippets like "this compound smells of freshly-cut grass, which is usually the last thing anyone who smells it comments upon."
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 14:20, archived)
# That's usually commented about cyanide
which smells of bitter almonds, but most people can't smell it until it is at a dangerously high level.
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 14:55, archived)
# I can't smell it.
I work with the stuff a fair bit as well. H2S is a dodgy one - when you can't smell it any more it's either a) dispersed and you're safe or b) at a concentration that means you're already going to die.
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 14:58, archived)
# The smelliest lab at my university was the one working on novel bonding of pnictogens
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 16:08, archived)
# It is at least appropriately coloured
A lovely deep blue, like the uniforms of our esteemed constabulary.
(, Mon 15 Aug 2011, 21:20, archived)
# Let me ask Honey Badger how he feels about it :)
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 12:10, archived)
# It saddens me that I could name it before seeing it written down...
/inorganic chemistry blog.

Also got paper 27 accepted the other day, which was nice.
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 13:00, archived)
# Don't worry, brother, you're among friends
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 13:03, archived)
# Yay!
Put in a Marie Curie application the other day. 25% success rate, which is three times that of the Australian funding I'd also applied for.
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 13:05, archived)
# This is all rather bewildering
I'm just a lowly undergrad.
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 13:10, archived)
# Aha...
You may like this then: sotak.info/sci.jpg
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 13:11, archived)
# All so true
Thanks and best wishes on your app!
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 14:10, archived)
# Ta!
There's another three for me to write in the coming fortnight. Mainly copy and paste, luckily.
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 14:16, archived)
# Perhaps it is copper
and the Tetraamminediaqua is just his uniform
(, Sun 14 Aug 2011, 15:12, archived)
# Aah! ELEMENTAL! I must have misread that...
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 13:01, archived)
# I'm not sure theres enough spang in the world
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 13:45, archived)
# :D
ilikethelight:D
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 13:50, archived)
# It's mother was a ore.....!!
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 17:25, archived)
# Splendid!
(, Sat 13 Aug 2011, 21:34, archived)