#miscibility

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

"Microscopic World"

So many natural processes take place right in front of us, but they're too small and too fast to see. Here, the Beauty of Science team puts some of those processes -- crystallizing solids, nucleating bubbles, and more -- front and center. The shapes and colors draw you in, inviting you to engage with science we see daily but rarely appreciate. (Video and image credit: Beauty of Science) Read the full article

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Ionic liquids (figure 12.37) are increasingly being advocated as green solvents for electrochemical applications in metal deposition, battery electrolytes and electrosynthesis.

"Chemistry" 2e - Blackman, A., Bottle, S., Schmid, S., Mocerino, M., Wille, U.

[thesandlorde]

​"Uphill" 2024, oil on muslin, antique frame, 39" by 19" without frame

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i took some slightly nicer pictures with my DSLR for submission to a show so i'm reuploading this guy here! (who knew photographing green and red faithfully would be so impossible)

[utilitycaster]

You know what's really revealing to me? How many people really don't want Ashton to engage at all with the Luxon in any capacity. I think it's an entirely valid choice, to be clear, if Ashton doesn't engage, and everyone's entitled to their personal preferences... but it has come up during the memory probes and it's an intriguing possibility (especially as a source of power outside the prime and betrayer pantheon) and I don't see why, at least if you like Ashton as a character, you wouldn't be at least interested unless you're holding a grudge against campaign 2 or the mere concept of the divine. It feels so incurious. Aren't you curious?

[arctic-hands]

Oils dissolve silicone, right? If I got a silicone bowel to hold the water that cleans my paintbrushes, I wouldn't be able to use my (water miscible, meaning I don't need paint thinner or mineral spirits) oil paints in it, yeah?

[cumulo-stratus]

Why the fuck is there a c in miscible 😐😐😐😐

[johnsonholme]

[f-ing-lipbalm]

Who here has formed a graduation playlist??

[theftmprogrammer]

feeling like we crossed the bounds of the impermissible,

…who knew our chemistry would be this miscible?

[overbrainrotch]

Do you have any headcanons about how venture or Moria (whoever you’d like to write for) would be like with a quiet coworker who they have a crush on?

I can do you one better!! Give you both :))

Moira & Venture quiet coworker headcannons!!

Moira

•She would almost be a borderline Tsundere around you first.

•constantly glaring, scoffing at your comments, rolling her eyes.

•but once she started opening more up to you, she really started to enjoy your conversations.

•Letting you help her in her lab, when she was known quite well for being a lone worker.

•she’d let you even handle her glassware, and chemicals. Just to scold you for being too clumsy with them(even though you made sure to be extra careful.)

•one time, she even let you mix a few of her chemicals, wanting to teach you about miscible liquids, and how some could be dangerous when mixed.

•when you mixed your very first chemicals, you were ecstatic to see it worked out, almost. You looked over at Moira, hoping for some kind of inspection.

• “well done. It’s acceptable.”

•she would look away, refusing to meet your happy gaze, excitement beaming on your cheeks.

•once you finally got a mixture perfect, she finally let a pet name slip.

•”amazing job, little lab rat.”

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Venture

•they loved watching you dig out crystals and rocks, the way your face would light up when you found a fossil.

•they definitely have cuteness aggression towards you, and constantly have to hold back on friendly hugs.

•some days , you both were in the same area, trying to find new historic pieces.

• “So, what do you think we’ll find first, huh?? A skull? A rib??”

•always so excited for finding new things, but even more so to be doing it with you.

•until you both come across something way more significant than any old fossil. A ruined tomb.

•at this point venture is gasping at every tiny detail, the way the art looked so pristine, the statues being in damn near perfect condition. pointing them all out and looking at you excitedly.

•”I’m gonna’ have to bring you along more often!! You’ll be my lucky fossil rock!”

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

"Paradolia"

In "Paradolia," filmmaker Susi Sie plays with pareidolia, our tendency to seek patterns in nebulous data -- like faces on a slice of toast.  (Video and image credit: S. Sie) Read the full article

[bacteriowlphage]

Some molecules I think Hylics characters would be:

Wayne: H2O. Common acid or base to form associated conj, base and H3O+ or conj. acid and HO-. forms there through autoionization as well. Bent shape reminds me of his head.

Somsnosa: HF. Miscible. Not a strong acid, has pKa of ~3 I think, but very painful and fatal. Acts as acid in rxn with H2O. Does not completely dissociate in H2O, HF can instead can sink into skin and light up nerves, ow!

Dedusmuln: NH3. Miscible. Acts as base in rxn with H2O to form NH4+ and OH-. Used commercially for fertilizer. I don't know why this reminds me of them. They're like a slug that I could find in a garden?

Pongorma: HClO4. Miscible. Strong acid, dissociates completely in water. Otherwise corrosive can react to form explosive.

Smuldunde: C3H8O. Various medical uses. I think they would be a tetrahedral molecule.

Gibby: C6H6. Immiscible. It's a ring there is no other option but an aromatic ring and also very flammable.

[whats-in-a-sentence]

For example, we find that ethanol and water mix completely in all proportions – we say they are miscible – while hexane and water are essentially immiscible and form two layers on addition of one liquid to the other (figure 10.7).

"Chemistry" 2e - Blackman, A., Bottle, S., Schmid, S., Mocerino, M., Wille, U.

[rlin0781]

I love material safety data sheets for water.

MSDSs tend to have a fairly standardized language to describe safety considerations, which is really helpful in general because that succinctly communicates a lot of really important information, but when that language is applied to something like, well, water, some hilarious results occur.

Some examples under the cut.

ThermoFisher does not want you to drink its water. Honestly fair. Beyond the rabbit hole of chemical grades (some digging shows that this water is specifically LC-MS grade) drinking distilled water over a long period of time is not great for your health.

I feel like this mostly speaks for itself, honestly, and it is probably strictly better to have it there than not, but if a lab's first instinct is to let spilled water just sit there regardless of whether it was on the SDS or not there are probably a few more things worth worrying about.

Miscible with water? Big if true.

Good news everyone, water is not known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.

Here's the Sigma-Aldrich water MSDS. In case you get their water into your eyes, on your skin, or into your stomach, they recommend dealing with it with more water.

Except for inhalation, which recommends fresh air. I think I heard somewhere that dealing with water inhalation with more water comes with some adverse health effects

I know I already showcased this with the ThermoFisher SDS, but this always gets me.

Well that ruins my weekend plans of mixing a kilogram of elemental sodium with water. Darn.

Big fan of comically high LD50s. For context sucrose's LD50 is less than a third of this.

Lastly I want to showcase this thing because a few things on there seem... off.

Well, at least it's not Danger.

When I first discovered this about one and a half years ago, I didn't really notice anything off (in fact most of the things on the page make sense) until I saw this. Maybe I'm missing out on some really exciting water chemistry but I don't think it should be extremely toxic, potentially explosive, and flammable under heating.

In fact other parts of the SDS seems to agree with me here.

I don't know why this is the case, but every time I have to deal with material safety stuff I always think about it and it's great every single time.

[utilitycaster]

someone send eden and sam riegel the potion miscibility table

[arctic-hands]

Damn, the oil painting reddit is still closed in boycott (people are still posting in it but not getting any notes), which I don't mind in itself but it's midly inconvenient to me personally lol

Anyway, anyone know of any fume-less oil paint varnish? I have asthma and I get migraines from powerful scents and fumes, so I use water miscible oil paints so I don't have to use turpentine or mineral spirits. But once the arduous drying process is done, how do I safely varnish the painting? My paints and Winsor & Newton and they have varnishes for WMOPs, but I couldn't decipher from the safety sheet if they were fumey or not. I can't use acrylic varnish over oil, it'll crack off over time.