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Interesting indeed, thanks for posting. I do a science stage show for local schools, and resources like this are invaluable for finding new material
to use.
Side note: I see that this publication uses the "water notation" - i.e. CoCl2*6H2O is called cobalt(II) chloride-6-water instead
of the more familar (to me) cobalt(II) chloride hexahydrate. It's really off-putting. To my ear it sounds like a dumbing-down of the scientific
language. It takes 5 minutes to learn the number prefixes (di-, tri-, hexa-, etc.) and that "hydrate" means water.
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a document management system
I would be happy to donate a document management system to assist with this work. It has a very nice document capture feature that allows you to scan
documents in batches and assemble and fix pages using drag and drop. Please U2U me if interested.
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Quote: Originally posted by MrHomeScientist  | To my ear it sounds like a dumbing-down of the scientific language. It takes 5 minutes to learn the number prefixes (di-, tri-, hexa-, etc.) and that
"hydrate" means water.
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I hate it, too, but this allows us to name hydrates with fractional water molecules, and allows us to use the same principle for other solvates, such
as things crystallized with ethanol or acetone.
Please remember: "Filtrate" is not a verb.
Write up your lab reports the way your instructor wants them, not the way your ex-instructor wants them.
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| Quote: Originally posted by quantumchromodynamics | | I would be happy to donate a document management system to assist with this work. It has a very nice document capture feature that allows you to scan
documents in batches and assemble and fix pages using drag and drop. Please U2U me if interested. |
Well, if there is sufficient interest in willing to try this again. I have a scanner with a paper feed so what might be easier is to cut the pages out
with an x-acto knife and just let Acrobat scan them into a PDF.
Previously I was turning the pages and pressing the book very hard onto a flatbed scanner since the area near the spine was a pain in the arse to
capture. Then I'll just 3-hole punch the pages and stick them in a binder.
If Acrobat proves to not work the way I think I can get it to work (scanner only does one side scanning, not sure how to go about scanning even and
odd numbered pages and merging them properly while not ripping my hair out of my head in frustration) then I might take you up on the offer, thanks!
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Cool, thanks
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Count me interested.
Come to think of it, I am half way through scanning a couple of books of lab demos too. Probably nothing as exciting as these. But I can post them
up when done.
(There. Now that that's said, I have some incentive to get onto the second book.)
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Just a idea for future, The main camera I use (dads) makes huge files for each pic but has alot of resolution, we also have a Nikon D3s which is 20
something megapixels so again fabulous resolution but massive files.
What I do is take a pic then on a decent size monitor so I can see everything clearly I take a jpeg screen shot  so it turns a 12 megabyte picture file into a 172 kB file. you just have to make
sure you have a good size monitor and off you go.
I know its not exactly on topic but just a tip when taking pics of books, i am currently doing this to all my books to upload
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| Quote: Originally posted by Little_Ghost_again | Just a idea for future, The main camera I use (dads) makes huge files for each pic but has alot of resolution, we also have a Nikon D3s which is 20
something megapixels so again fabulous resolution but massive files.
What I do is take a pic then on a decent size monitor so I can see everything clearly I take a jpeg screen shot so it turns a 12 megabyte picture file into a 172 kB file. you just have to make
sure you have a good size monitor and off you go.
I know its not exactly on topic but just a tip when taking pics of books, i am currently doing this to all my books to upload |
I can pretty much guarantee that there will be a setting in your camera to save the pictures as .jpg images. If you want to keep the uncompressed
images though, you can use paint to save the images as .jpg's, and resize them downwards if needed. Either method is more efficient than saving a
screenshot, although it is *possible* that the screenshot method could have a slight edge in speed.
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There is software out there that will resize images in batch. Or, you could just reduce the resolution in the camera settings.
I scan using a photocopier/scanner that saves as a multi-page pdf.
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hello put this part: chemiluminescence in cayenne pepper!
for build a ebook you need a soft like PDFill
take the pics with around 1800 pixels!
also cool experiments in old numbers of popsci mag! bet. 1930-48
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