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Magnesuim taurate is a mysterious substance - many people are eating it as food supplement and... I cannot find it. I bought 5 different brands of "magnesuim taurate", 4 of them clear rubbish with 0% of magnesuim taurate, fifth was that close to fool me,

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Scientist Irritated by Lab Colleague Accused in Poisoning Attempt

ChatGPT is surprisingly bad at helping scientists poison their labmates!

No, this article is not a joke...
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Heh-heh-heh, "Holland & Barrett, but that is generally well-regarded other than that they also sell homeopathy"

They failed math exam too :)
These number are not fitting together.
From here: www.hollandandbarrett.com/shop/product...

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The ai tool is being developed by @jsheltzer.bsky.social and Google and may be of general interest to the #chemsky #chemchat crowd.

Still wasting time on EPR-DFT, as if this time it will work. It won’t. WFT FTW. #chemchat

Werken aan moleculen met wieltjes is alsof je aan het koken bent Carlijn van Beek deed promotieonderzoek naar de moleculaire motortjes waar haar begeleider Ben Feringa de Nobelprijs voor kreeg. Het is een complexe nanopuzzel. Hoe doe je onderzoek naar iets wat je n...

Werken aan moleculen met wieltjes is alsof je aan het koken bent.

@carlijnvanbeek.bsky.social in @nrc.nl
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www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

I would like to remind that Bagette Lab always delivers their promises, contrary to competitors. They promised to eat the battery and they did! The battery was tasty.

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Rant time:

I just want to say that I really, REALLY dislike AI image generation.

Not threatened by it. Just that it removes creative and collaborative steps.

Yes, prompt mastery is a skill. I get it.

But it doesn't make ppl creative any more than it makes me a coder.

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a sign with four red circles with a line through them, signifying "do not" use these things when you are doing your "discovery route" because it's doesn't necessarily translate to a useful process and your process team will have to redo everything anyway. in the four circles: 1. a flash column - meaning avoid column chromatography. 2. -78 degrees C, 400 degrees C in a sealed tube - meaning don't use silly reaction conditions. 3. hexane, dichloromethane and dimethylformamide - meaning don't use these solevnts. 4. sodium hydride, HF, TBDMSCl, CH2N2, OsO4 - meaning these are not great reagents for scale. avoid protection/deprotection and hazardous reagents.

And while we are at it...let's not forget about the poor old process chemists.....

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We feel you!

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It's Chemical Engineer's day here at ChemScrapes.

We see you! We hear you!

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A batch reactor wearing a hood is about to pull a guillotine on a fixed bed reactor. this is a manufacturing execution system.

Revolutionary!

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"UC Berkeley professor Kwabena Bediako under investigation for sexual harassment allegations" #chemchat

Nice story on research from my colleague and collaborator (and first PhD student!) Dr. Chris Phenix! #chemsky #chemchat #glycotime 🧪

Harvard Asks Donors to Endow $10 Million Professorships for ‘Viewpoint Diversity’ Initiative | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish new endowed professorships in a sweeping bid to reshape its faculty under the banner of “viewpoint diversity,” according to two peop...

Atoms are not real #chemsky #chemchat

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

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And I bought it! On purpose, of course. It would be my forth attempt to test magnesium taurate. (Fifth will follow, but it formally looks fine)

So make your guesses!

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A information from magnesium taurate food supplement label, full of nonsense rubbish. https://www.amazon.de/-/en/NatuGena-Magnesium-Taurate-Bioavailability-Capsules/dp/B0D1CS6Z28

A question to industry folks:

Does GMP and ISO certifications require certain level of education in a company? Like, the level "can perform simple mathematical operations" for at least one person in a company?

1/2

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UW lab researcher admits to adding poisonous chemicals to coworker's water bottle, shoes The lab researcher confessed to his colleague and police of poisoning the colleague’s water bottle and shoes. 

Yikes #chemchat #chemsky

Labels of 36 food supplements (magnesium bisglycinate), divided in 4 categories: 1. Not enough info - 11 products 2. Probably fine - 6 products 3. Probably rubbish - 6 products 4. Rubbish -13 products

Now I had a look on Belgian Amazon (nope, not amazon.be, but amazon.com.be) for Mg supplements, "bisglycinate" to be precise. Just from the labels, 13 out of 36 product are rubbish, with chemically impossible content. The rest of info is on the figure.

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"As an emergency we had to turn off all the computational nodes in the cluster..." #chemchat

I don't know who needs to hear this today...but you are doing great! Just drink heaps of water and take a stroll.

This has been a ChemScrapes community announcement!

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I have almost perfect room temperature in my office now
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#FollowTheTemp

Identification of Oxidation State +1 in a Molecular Uranium Complex The concept of oxidation state plays a fundamentally important role in defining the chemistry of the elements. In the f block of the periodic table, well-known oxidation states in compounds of the lanthanides include 0, +2, +3 and +4, and oxidation states for the actinides range from +7 to +2. Oxidation state +1 is conspicuous by its absence from the f-block elements. Here we show that the uranium(II) metallocene [U(η5-C5iPr5)2] and the uranium(III) metallocene [IU(η5-C5iPr5)2] can be reduced by potassium graphite in the presence of 2.2.2-cryptand to the uranium(I) metallocene [U(η5-C5iPr5)2]− (1) (C5iPr5 = pentaisopropylcyclopentadienyl) as the salt of [K(2.2.2-cryptand)]+. An X-ray crystallographic study revealed that 1 has a bent metallocene structure, and theoretical studies and magnetic measurements confirmed that the electronic ground state of uranium(I) adopts a 5f3(7s/6dz2)1(6dx2–y2/6dxy)1 configuration. The metal–ligand bonding in 1 consists of contributions from uranium 5f, 6d, and 7s orbitals, with the 6d orbitals engaging in weak but non-negligible covalent interactions. Identification of the oxidation state +1 for uranium expands the range of isolable oxidation states for the f-block elements and potentially signposts a synthetic route to this elusive species for other actinides and the lanthanides.

I only read the Mrs Bezos story as far as the part where she got Jeff a mug with HUNK spelled out in element symbols and does anyone know where the chemistry angle came from there?

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Also maybe it's possible? pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

An angry, grey, cartoon atom with a clenched fists. It has "Hg²⁺" (Mercury ion) written on its forehead. A sign above it reads "DEPT. OF TUNGSTEN & ARGON" (WAr). The atom is exclaiming, "'diversity is our strength' is the dumbest phrase in military history!" This is Pete Hg-seth

Pete Hgseth. At least it explains the toxicity....

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