Recent content by MrNano

I think you are right, I have an old keyboard at my parents house, maybe I should bring it to my apartment and start practicing piano.

I do actually train four times a week, and also I have read some programming courses at the university. My big interests are obviously physics and chemistry, but I do really not know what to do during my free time

As autumn arrives i tend to get depressed. Last weeks have been hell for me, literally, as I have nothing to do between study sessions, I end up wasting hours on youtube watching stupid crap. My solution is to find a hobby, something productive and stimulating that I can do on a regular basis. I...

Thank you for the explanation. However, shouldn't free atoms be more stable in absolute vacuum, compared with atoms in a lattice? Putting the kinetics aside.

It still feels weird that it does not decompose to singly carbon atoms, spread in space. However I guess you are right. Thank you my friend.

I just find it surprising, since I am aware that diamond has very strong kinetic barriers, but that it still, even in an infinite vacuum can resist being broken down.

Do you have any references? I would love to read about the physics behind it, it is quite surprising if that is the case

But is that the case? I am looking for a discussion and ultimately an answer. My thought is that if you have an infinitely big volume of complete vacuum, and a piece of diamond, or any substance in the center, then it must be broken into its smallest components in order to fill the space and...

I guess its a combination of both and ultimately the entropy contribution

How is it a contradiction? The intermolecular forces are closely related to the vapor pressure of the substance. Substances with strong forces tend to have a high boiling point and therefore a very low valued vapor pressure. Take as for example water, which has a vapor pressure of approximately...

It is of course due to the intermolecular forces acting. However all solid and liquid substances are in an equilibrium with their gas form, therefore, if we lower the external pressure just enough then the equilibrium will be displaced towards the gas phase. I think this is a consequence of the...

It is well known that when the vapor pressure of a substance is bigger than the external pressure, it boils. In vacuum there are no particles and therefore no pressure, shouldn't therefore, even diamond as for example, boil in complete vacuum?

The central carbon atom in tBut-Br is tertiary, which gives rise to high steric hinderance, which means that we can exclude Sn2, leaving E1, E2 or Sn1. Continuing, if we consider the other reactant Me-OK, it is negatively charged and thus a strong nucleophile/base. However, since it is strong...

I havnt read the entire thread, but liquids boil when their vapour pressure is higher than the enviroment, you read some about it.. Its general thermodynamics. However, what that mean is if you raise the pressure on a liquid, the vapour pressure will have to be higher in order to exceed the...

I am actually not too sure, but I think it is due to the steric hinderance. The hinderance does not always have to be on the beta carbon, if you compare the structure to a neopentylic structure, which can never participate in an Sn2, there are similarities, except that there are only two metyl...