Sorry if this post is not appropriate. I just didn't know where else to ask this.
Our managers have talked to the fire department and they said that we shouldn't take any actions at the moment (I. e. evacuation).
In the meanwhile we saw at least 10 fire fighter cars, multiple police cars and an ambulance to go there.
As far as I heard, this thing is quite toxic. I'm supposed to leave the office in an hour and go to the train station. Should I be worried?Is there anything I could do to protect myself?
R1: Carbon Dioxide and Sulfur Trioxide are not polyatomic ions, simple as that. Also, it is the properties of carbon dioxide that cause climate change, not some unexplained reaction between it and water. As a bonus there is a weird analogy comparing polyatomic ions to conjoined grapes and examples of what polyatomic ions are used in that are so vague that they mean nothing (what, is glass made out of carbonate, is plastic just mounds of cyanide).
This is my first badscience post, so feel free to criticize me if I did something stupid.
EDIT: And I did something really stupid: I accidentally turned this into a text post, meaning the link isn't even there. Here it is.
Sulfur dioxide is polar whereas sulfur trioxide is not which is why I'm confused. The only other factor I can think of is dispersion forces but I would have thought that the polarity would affect the boiling point much more.
It had been a few days since Kirell returned from Nryxs. The station seemed calm, like nothing had happened while he was gone, though he still hadn't seen Dopey much. The lights at the moment were dimmed, probably corresponding to the setting of the Khumans' star.
Kirell wanted to be irritated. He'd asked the Captain to let him join another trip, and to his surprise he hadn't said no, but... he hadn't said yes, either. Kirell was still waiting for a reply, any reply. And yet... Captain Amelia was doing the vibrating thing next to him, and he had a long stick of yellow boiled corn, and it was so very hard to be annoyed.
Footsteps sounded, and Captain Amelia looked up with a mrrrp sound. Smee, Alex, and the Captain came around the corner, and Alex and the Captain stopped abruptly.
"What... the?" Alex muttered. Smee elbowed her.
"He doesn't have scraping teeth. That's how he eats it. It makes him happy; let him be."
Kirell's frills flushed purple with embarrassment. He knew he ate the stuff differently from the Khumans. He also knew that they tended to stare when he did it, so he must be doing it strangely, but knowing just made it more embarrassing. Was it because the ends stuck out the sides of his mouth, or because he was chewing gently to pop all the yellow bits so he could swallow what was inside? Did it take him too long to eat it? Was he, stars forbid, drooling?
"He looks like a puppy with a– a big stick." Alex's voice sounded like a slightly swallowed squeak somehow. Kirell wasn't sure what that meant. He would have guessed it meant pain, but his translator didn't understand either, so that guess was probably wrong. He was pretty sure the translator would know what Khuman pain looked like. So what was that squeak? Some kind of strong emotional response? And why did Khumans have so many meanings for the words "big stick?" His translator was overworking itself trying to combine "threat of force" and "new toy" into a single explanation.
"Alex, you can't say things like that." Smee was protesting for some reason.
"Why not?" Alex had tipped her head slightly; the gesture felt familiar to Kirell. Wasn't that what he did when confused? Had she borrowed that from him?
"It might make him feel bad."
"Why? It's just what he looks like. How would it make him feel bad?"
Kirell's frills pulsed teal and fuchsia; he also wanted to know the answer. Had Alex said something she shouldn't say? And what about it shouldn't she
... keep reading on reddit ➡I understand how MOXIE works on Mars but is there a similar way we can obtain water from venusian acid clouds to help sustain a venusian atmospheric (HAVOC type) space station?
A sequel to Blue Crystal Biology and Cannonball Biology.
Vitrium is a small, warm world--a half-way point between Venus and Mars.
A weak magnetic field and strong solar radiation have stripped it of most of its primordial volatiles, and particularly depleted it of hydrogen, leaving the surface heavily oxidized--but unlike Mars, and like Venus, it had enough sulfur to retain a small amount of hydrogen locked up in sulfuric acid, with a small amount (approximately 1.7%) of dissolved water. Many planetologists believe that Vitrium in fact passed through a Venusian stage in its early history, before losing enough atmosphere to cool down to the point that oceans could form (with present-day surface temperatures ranging between 50 and 150C, comfortably in the middle of sulfuric acid's liquid range); others, however, think it more likely that the planet simply started out with a relatively low carbon fraction, such that early heating and hydrogen loss were driven primarily by a water, rather than CO2, atmosphere.
As on Venus, sulfuric acid forms clouds on Vitrium, as well as rain, and pools into numerous small seas. Sulfur trioxide also forms thin clouds in the upper atmosphere, but temperatures are too high to support liquid sulfur trioxide anywhere on the surface. The relatively small amount of surface liquid means that Vitrium has no globe-spanning oceans or well-defined global sea level, with most sea basins being entirely disconnected from each other, and having been disconnected for as long as the world was cool enough for seas to form. Nevertheless, lifeforms in each basin are broadly similar, indicating that the current biological system originated originated in one place and thence colonized the rest of the world.
As on Blue Crystal, life on Vitrium makes extensive use of silicon as a scaffolding element for biomolecules--but unlike Blue Crystal life, Vitrium's biology almost entirely avoids unstable Si-Si bonds, instead relying on strong silicon-oxygen bonds to form organosilicone, or siloxane, polymers, with Si-C and C-C bonds used in various functional groups (in particular, C-C bridges are frequently employed analogously to disulfide bridges used in Earthling biology; despite the much greater bioavailability of sulfur on Vitrium, C-C bonds are sometimes required for their greater stability i
... keep reading on reddit ➡Hi, I'm currently trying automate the crafting of calcium sulfate to get into advanced rocketry better, but literally no matter what i do. i cannot pipe the sulfur trioxide from one chemical reactor to another. Even whenever I try to take it out manually with a bucket, it just removes the sulfur dioxide and instanatly evaporates.
It's only producing one gas, it doesn't have any byproducts, so I thought that it should be easy, but it doesn't export to any mechanical pipes, pressurized pipes, fluiducts, or neighboring machines no matter what I do for the side configuration. what am i missing?
Was wondering if this was possible since I realized sulfamic acid was made through oleum, urea and sulfur trioxide which is often employed to concentrate sulfuric acid, I also stumbled upon this post but trying to validate, http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=31834
Can't really find 80 - 90 percent sulfuric acid everywhere, even in drain cleaners, situation is bad where I am, and it is pretty watched minus from your weak battery acid, so was wondering if anyone had any input on possible alternative preparations or even reagents to substitute its use in most reactions/preparations which I doubt.
Sucks something as simple as this acid isn't even available, while benzyl alcohol is literally everywhere smh.
Do your worst!
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
