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    How Does LSD-25 Impact the Central Nervous System and Influence Mental States?

    lsd is a 5-HT2A receptor agonist. you should learn what this means and maybe read about the different receptors and compare the structures of their agonists. personally i don't know much about any of htis
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    Does Adding Acetone to Gasoline Improve Engine Performance?

    could you explain this a little more?
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    Looking for interesting reactions with paper

    you could explore some treatment that involved nitric acid, to produce nitrocellulose http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrocellulose
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    Firecracker Physics: Exploding Directionality

    if you look up at a blown up firecracker (the "blackjack"/on a string type) you will find they split at the middle, leaving the two ends more or less intact so i don't think you would get more mileage out of one by directing one of its poles at your target
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    Admissions Fall 2010 Graduate Admissions Thread

    sutupidmath, check out the forums at thegradcafe.com, there is a forum for each area of study and people discuss their applications and will sometimes share info on their application stats. yuster.com seems like a great concept for comparing your stats to other applicants, but it's also...
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    Admissions Fall 2010 Graduate Admissions Thread

    congratulations! since i last posted in this thread, 2 of the 5 responded, both with rejections. I am not at all surprised or disappointed, though.
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    Do you think this is true for Engineers vs Phyiscists?

    i would say people that choose engineering over an 8 year track do have different priorities, but i wouldn't paint them with dollar signs in their eyes. the people seeing green from day one are the ones going into business and finance. engineers just mostly want to get to work sooner and have a...
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    Admissions Fall 2010 Graduate Admissions Thread

    so far I've been accepted to 4 schools, and haven't heard back from the other 5 i applied to it's already a really tough 3-way choice for me (the other was sort of a safe school - good program, but not somewhere i wanted to live), so much so that i wouldn't be heartbroken to find out the other...
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    Programs Haven't heard anything from my PhD applications: Any chances left?

    well, the good news is you didnt fall into the first round of eliminations. if all 9 schools kept your application in the pool id say the odds are on your side for getting admitted to at least one :/ good luck
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    Schools Applying to Grad School and GRE - Deadlines

    the first thing you should know is that subject gres are only given a few times a year (read: 3), and that you have to register for one more than a month in advance. i believe the three test dates are in april, october and november. if you take it in november, you can expect the scores to go...
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    How much would a near-perfect GRE score help?

    my guess is not much. my general GRE was near-perfect but everything I've heard has been that grad schools don't care how much of a whiz you are at IQ tests, they want to know how well you work in a particular subject
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    What are the pragmatic applications of physical chemistry?

    physical chemists do find work in industry. i work with two organic postdocs and they were lamenting that the petroleum industry has no use for organic chemists while they are glad to hire physical chemists. my dad is a physical chemist and has worked in industry for over 25 years now. and...
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    Why are monolayers so important?

    I'm always hearing about monolayers... what make them so interesting? And while I'm asking dumb questions, why are 2 out of any 3 physical chemists working on protein folding modeling?
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    Schools First Year, College or University. Also a question about if Chemistry is needed

    oh well then yes, i would advise going to a university if it can be helped. listen to someone from Canada, though, not me
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    Schools First Year, College or University. Also a question about if Chemistry is needed

    i'm a little confused by your discrimination between "college" and "university". i know it is somewhat different abroad, but in the US the terms are by and large interchangeable. typically if there is a difference it is that the university is the whole institution, and the colleges are the...
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