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Posts by Andrew Dickson

I fear that once one needs to adduce isotopes, the concept of evidential clarity is compromised. 🤣

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In my youth, when chemistry was affectionately known as “stinks and bangs” it was undeniably “more memorable” than I suspect it is today.

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🤣🤣🤣💕

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🤣🤣

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To be fair, back in the “good old days” (starting with Pope Urban II), war against Islam was supported by a variety of Popes.

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If you’re fond of too much rain, I can recommend a fascinating travel book: “Chasing the Monsoon” by Alexander Frater. 😀

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What is, perhaps, harder, is to understand which are the “unnatural sciences”.

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You’re too kool?

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The hazard seems to be that the potential profit in the fossil fuel business, outstrips that available in renewable energies.

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Congratulations !

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I recollect an early confusion with the apparent homonym “missal”. 🤣🤣

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C.f. “missile” and “thistle” in the US

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Yes:

The relevant equilibrium equation is:
CO₂ + CO₃²⁻ + H₂O = 2HCO₃⁻ .
Its equilibrium constant is the ratio
K₁/K₂ of the two acid dissociation constants of CO₂(aq).

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Technically it’s the addition of atmospheric CO2 to the ocean that dissolves the corals, simply dissolving them-for example by adding mineral acid will likely produce CO2 locally. 😀

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Take care. Taking on a car is not a fair fight.

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Yes 0.1% of US annual emissions is a pitiful amount of such CDR capacity.

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Mostly for transportation, though – in the US.

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Hate the players, not the game?

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As a frequently over optimistic reviewer in my career, I admit to more often procrastinating over reviews than turning them down. However, I often felt that the authors and editors ignored more of my “advice” than they should have. 🤣🤣🤣

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If it’s not windy with cold driving rain, cycling can be quite congenial.
My memories of such weather recall my youth (when i cycled more).

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"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty says in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less".

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Agreed. The Swindon Magic Roundabout is amazingly successful.

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My family used to live near there, and swore that (after the initial shock) it was a major improvement.

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Shells “R” Us ?

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Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

— Karl Marx in “The Eighteenth Brumaire”

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A common flaw, see e.g. the Keeling curve.

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Ja, sie haben Recht.

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Meine brille hat $375 gekostet! 90€ ist nicht so teuer.

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