Bruce Lickey

Here’s a nice visual demo of the LaPorte selection rule in action! #RealTimeChem Normally in water, Co(II) ions coordinate to 6 water molecules. The resulting octahedral structure is a weak pink color, arising from a LaPorte-forbidden d→d transition. (1/2)

Recently discovered crowdsourced materials libraries for Blender, which is great because it means I save lots of time not having to make materials from scratch, but also because it means I can turn all my carbon atoms into balls of French fries

isn't that a Blink-182 album

At first glance thought that the authors of this inorganic textbook decided to cut the periodic table down to just the good half, before realizing that there was in fact a second page

Trying to insert a special character in Microsoft Office be like

In acetone, though, a tetrahedral geometry becomes favorable. The sharp change in color occurs when I flood the solution with acetone because, unlike an octahedron, a tetrahedron lacks a center of inversion symmetry. As such, it is no longer subject to the LaPorte rule. (2/2)

Used a @Thorlabs lens wipe to clean my glasses and now my eyes have JWST level resolution

Always happy to share some love for Tottori. Quite literally as rural as Japan gets (it has the lowest pop. of any prefecture), but it’s still full of surprises. It’s where I spent some of my most formative years, and it’ll always have a special place in my heart as home.

Ok, hear me out:

Never thought I could feel so much nostalgia toward something that is otherwise so vile But I promise you it is the pinnacle of all 2am drunk foods

I went to the page for manganese on the RSC's online periodic table and the image they chose to represent Mn raises so many questions @RoySocChem please explain I need to know the cow lore rsc.org/periodic-table/eleme…

Me adding yet another package to my LaTeX preamble that I’ve just been copy+pasting over from the last document I wrote for several years: #LaTeX #EldenRing

I once fell into the rabbit hole that was the Discussion page for this Wikipedia article, in which a full scale battle was brewing between the cat pic haters who saw the photo as irrelevant and frivolous, vs those who’d defend their electric cat overlord to their last breath