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thesmug
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How did you first come to this forum?
FYI, I'm not posting this in whimsy because I want more people to be able to see it.
How did you come to this forum for the first time? You don't need to be super specific, just whatever describes it best. I'll start:
I was making ferrofluid and came across a post here concerning how to clean up those nasty iron stains. After making the ferrofluid I started thinking
about expanding my chemistry practice and needed help thinking of which chemicals to get to fully stock my newly begun lab, and so made a post in
beginnings asking exactly that. Two months and almost 31 days later and here I am (I'm still fairly new, as you can see).
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elementcollector1
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I was searching for appropriate chemistry forums, after finding scienceforums.net a little too soft for my taste. Someone linked to a post here, and
one thing led to another.
Elements Collected:52/87
Latest Acquired: Cl
Next in Line: Nd
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Zephyr
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I found sciencemadness in a video about hydrazine sulfate preparation by nurdrage, and have been addicted to this amazing forum ever since.
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Chemosynthesis
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I used to be a mod on a big site with much less chemistry sophistication circa 2005. Lots of threads caused me to lurk here and back at roguesci.
Eventually I got tired of the lack of sophistication elsewhere.
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violet sin
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tired of youtube, I think I was looking for a more scientific explanation on what ever copper electrochem I was doing and stumbled across SM. never
looked back 
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numos
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After asking chemistry questions on yahoo answers, then stabbing my eyes out (metaphorically) as to not see the horrendous responses that dare be
called "answers" I looked for a more suitable source of information, this forum came up in the search "chemistry forum" and I decided it was perfect.
I've seen this forum before when searching various topics but YA ultimately caused me to look for something else.
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Bert
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Mood: " I think we are all going to die. I think that love is an illusion. We are flawed, my darling".
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Found it from Vulture's sig on roguesci.org about 11 years back, near as I can recall-
Rapopart’s Rules for critical commentary:
1. Attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly and fairly that your target says: “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it
that way.”
2. List any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement).
3. Mention anything you have learned from your target.
4. Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism.
Anatol Rapoport was a Russian-born American mathematical psychologist (1911-2007).
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hyfalcon
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I was searching google for information on anodes and found this huge thread here on SM. Been reading ever since.
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neptunium
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same here ! had an idea about making AlCl3 on google and BAM ! hundreds of matches popped up for scimad...
and found out that i wasnt the only weirdo amateur scientist!
[Edited on 14-4-2014 by neptunium]
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Zyklon-A
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I don't remember exactly, but it surly had to do with the lack of real science, or the idiots trolling on all the other forums/YouTube/Yahoo
Answers.
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neptunium
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sciencemadness is great and i reefered it to people who dont know about it and might be interested ...
it only happened 2 or 3 times but at least one of them may have signed up recently !
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Etaoin Shrdlu
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I was trying to find an industrial supplier of gallic acid, ran across this thread, and bookmarked the site because I'd honestly never seen a forum for amateur chemistry before.
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Texium
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I first discovered it from doing various Google searches about various chemistry related information (I can't remember exactly what anymore, but most
searches led me here) and found that it seems to be the best site out there for what I was looking for, especially when I decided to start my home lab
for real. That's when I actually joined.
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Praxichys
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Tim's (SM name 12AX7) signature on ABYMC or Backyardmetalcasting.com somewhere around 2008.
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Burner
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I am in the US and several years ago I retired after a long career in R&D and decided to go back to OC and have some fun. What I did not realize
was that the world had changed drastically over the years of my working life. The procurement of reagents that I took for granted were no longer
available to individuals. While EBay provided some access to materials and much equipment, I was shocked to find that even getting high quality basic
supplies like solvents, acids, bases, etc. that are essential in prepartive OC were unavailable from any source whatsoever. I now realize that it is
the efforts of the DEA that many items that I have come to feel are indispensible in the lab (eg. I2 & LAH) are on some crazy "watched lists" and
I have no hope of purchasing. That is when I realized (in the best tradition of early chemists) that I was responsible for making nearly everthing
that I needed. That is when I stumbled across SM. I have been here several weeks and am reading voratiously. I am EXTREMELY impressed with the
cleverness and quality of the science here and I hope that I can become a contributing memeber.
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TheChemiKid
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Quote: Originally posted by Pinkhippo11  | | I found sciencemadness in a video about hydrazine sulfate preparation by nurdrage, and have been addicted to this amazing forum ever since.
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Same! Thanks to nurdrage for leading us here.
When the police come
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AvBaeyer
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Like Burner, I too am a retired organic/medicinal chemist after many years in R&D in the pharma business. I stumbled across this site a few years
ago when I was doing some consulting work and one of the Google search answers pointed to this board. I was truly impressed that such a site existed
and I was stimulated to once again get my hands dirty doing some synthetic organic chemistry and following up some old ideas I had. Like Burner, I
found that acquisition of chemicals once taken for granted in industry is a real challenge. Ebay has been a great source but sometimes the quality is
questionable. I have found myself working at the level of 1920's or 1930's chemistry. Great fun but often frustrating. (Sure wish I had "people" to
wash my glassware!) Finally, I want to thank the keepers of this site for the fine collection of books in the library- a real godsend especially for
the older books.
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Burner
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Ignore! (Are you in the US? Are you dealing with the same restrictions?)
Duh! I just saw that you posted your location.
[Edited on 7-5-2014 by Burner]
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annaandherdad
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Hi, Burner and AvB, like you I'm late in career, and doing chemistry just for fun. And like you, I've found how hard it is to obtain chemicals and
supplies, compared to when I was a kid and you could just order 2 liters of nitric acid and they would deliver it to your door, no questions asked.
AvB, I see you're in California. Where, may I ask? I'm in the bay area.
Any other SF Bay chemists?
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Burner
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I feel that this is the biggest stumbling block for some of the younger chemists. I was trained to synth most of the materuals that I needed from
simple organic starting materials using a series of fairly common laboratory reagents. But these common reagent building blocks are nearly impossible
to source currently. I hope to learn from the scientific experiences chronicled here on SM how to get back to doing some OC.
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AvBaeyer
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annaandherdad,
I am in the Bay Area also.
AvB
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aga
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I was walking along, thinking of getting back into chemistry, not looking where i was going, then i just tripped and fell.
Now here i am in the SM website, vaguely wondering how to get out, but not really trying hard, as it's great in here.
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Fantasma4500
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i really have no clue at all what it was that i was trying to get an answer on, but i remember that i tried to sign up +10 times and captcha just
totally fucked me over, every single time
case sensitive or not, captcha has something personal against me
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Eliteforum
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I really don't remember! It was 12 years ago..
[Edited on 3-7-2014 by Eliteforum]
All that glitters isn't gold.
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Artemus Gordon
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I met hkparker when he was doing chem demos at Maker Faire, started watching his YouTube videos, and he posted a link to here.
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