Mind telling me where the Jahn-Teller axis is in that coordination sphere?*wins appeal*
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Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Sat 13 Aug 2011, 13:03,
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I'm reading that line in my Inorganic prof's Kiwi accentWin!
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!"
(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!"
RedHouse over yonder,
Sat 13 Aug 2011, 14:06,
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We had an old chap for organometallic chemistrywho 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."
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Sat 13 Aug 2011, 14:20,
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That's usually commented about cyanidewhich smells of bitter almonds, but most people can't smell it until it is at a dangerously high level.
( RedHouse over yonder,
Sat 13 Aug 2011, 14:55,
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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.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...",
Sat 13 Aug 2011, 14:58,
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