Screenshot of an article headline. There's an art image of the phosphorus tile on the periodic table, then it says "Chemists thought phosphorus was fully understood - they were wrong". By SciTechDaily, published yesterday
10 house points to anyone who guesses correctly what this huge lack of understanding of phosphorus was about #chemchat
A fragment of a food supplement label with following information: INGREDIENTS / ZUTATEN / INGREDIENTI / INGREDIENTES / INGREDIENTS EN Magnesium Bisglycinate Powder 250mg, (Providing 50mg of Magnesium) (13% NRV), Magnesium Citrate 161mg (Providing 50mg of magnesium) (13.33% NRV), Microcrystalline Cellulose PH/BD102, Magnesium stearate, HPMC Capsule.
Have you ever heard about electrides - ionic compounds in which an electron serves the role of the anion?
Do you know that you can simply buy an organometallic electride in form of a food supplement?
What, you don't trust me? Let me show with this stuff!
#chemsky #chemchat #SupplementsSaga
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CoVFeFe #ChemChat
What is the smallest stable molecule that is currently "impossible" to synthesize? #ChemChat
A fragment of food supplement label when one of the carbon is replaced with magnesium.
When you heard about chemistry, but did not try to learn it.
The declared content (Mg =20%) also is as impossible as the picture .
#chemchat #chemsky
A fragment of Mg bisglycinate food supplement for horses. Looks like its quality is much better then quality of human food supplement.
(I am speaking absolutely seriously)
I am browsing Mg supplements, most of the are rubbish, and suddenly found one with correct information. Looks like they actually did an analysis.
It is a food supplement for HORSES.
#chemsky #chemchat #SupplementsSaga
This is the source of a new mineral in may collection - brucite, Mg(OH)₂. There is Mg bisglycinate dihydrate inside too, but nobody perfect.
#mineral #chemsky #chemchat #crystallography #SupplementsSaga
A fragment of the magnesium supplement label: Amount per serving Magnesium as magnesium chelate as magnesium citrate as magnesium malate as magnesium aspartate as magnesium taurate as magnesium lactate as magnesium glycinate
Can you spot what it wrong here?
#SupplementsSaga #chemsky #chemchat
2,5-diphenyloxazole is holding an alpha particle and glowing at about 360 nm. It's saying "It's giving alpha! That's not....." (1,4-bis(5-phenyloxazol-2-yl) benzene) (also knows as POPOP) is hovering behind, raising its hand and saying "Clock it". Its glowing at about 410 nm. These are the molecules commonly used in liduid scintillation counting.
One thing about electrons… When illumined with a beam of light, they want to move in the opposite direction of its electric field. Metal electrons are mobile – they respond with alacrity! This is what makes a metal sparkle! #iteachchemistry #chemchat
After years of working at the interface of academia and industry, I’ve decided share some thoughts on the issues faced as we try to innovate for impact. It’s not very ChemScrapes-y…but there’s still some drawing going on🙃. #chemsky #chemchat #academicchatter
www.linkedin.com/posts/brenda...
Soundgarden for large scale separations and parallel peptide syntheses at my bench. Metallica when one colleague was cranking high-throughput screening. Grace Potter for another when they purified epoxides. At least we took turns! #chemsky #chemchat
inpreparation.substack.com/p/pi-nostalg...
A bottle of a "Chelated Magnesium" food supplement on a few bricks.
Wow, I found brutally honest advertisement of a food supplement. Because to achieve 21% of Mg in magnesium biglycinate one indeed need to add few bricks (often contains MgO). (Theoretical max is 14.1% for anhydrous, really 11.7% for dihydrate)
#chemsky #chemchat #crystallography #SupplementsSaga
A fragment of food supplement label saying that it is contains L-glycine.
Ah, my favorite L-glycine...
#chemchat
A position description from Abbvie website saying that powder diffraction is a spectroscopic method.
This means WAR!
#crystallography #chemchat
careers.abbvie.com/en/job/senio...
So beautiful 😭 #ChemChat
Single crystal x-ray structure of a 1,2-aminochloride showing a N-Cl bond.
I really love it when a fresh batch of scXRD structures drops from our collaborators at @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social! N–Cl bonds have become our group's workhorse and the structs allow finding really neat trends, here's a snippet from our 2025 paper. #chemchat #chemsky
Some chemistry in today’s #SpellingBee
#ChemChat
I spent the past few minutes looking for my safety glasses on my desk. Turns out they were already on my face. It's gonna be a day... #ChemChat
A SPINE style goniometer base with a loop, one normal and one is lager version.
Hey, @mitegen.com , I understand that “we can make custom orders”, but dimensions were in millimeters and not in inches!
#crystallography #chemsky #chemchat
Chemist at the whistle tonight in the World Cup Qualifier playoff between Iraq and Bolivia! Iván Barton from Universidad de El Salvador
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And I still what to see real magnesium taurate, because here I found taurine and hydromagnesite and now I even not sure that it is exist.
#chemchat #chemsky #crysyallography
Crystals of the tetra(something-ium) hexachloro-lead under microscope
Ah, sweet abandonolysis - my method of choice. Just leave your crystals under the microscope over a weekend and - disorder is gone, solvent is gone.
(just stupid Bruker software that cannot handle properly Ag data still here)
#crystallography #chemchat #chemsky
a molecule of oxygen is pointing and laughing at another molecule. It is making hand gestures and saying"six, seven! six, seven!". The other molecule is cyanide. The carbon looks mad. the nitrogen is rolling it's eyes.
As Q1 2026 closes: 5 FDA-approved small molecules - copper histidinate, difamilast, linerixibat, milsaperidone, and relacorilant. Five targets, five scaffolds, five lessons in med chem. Q2 is at the same point we were this time last year - right on track. #ChemChat #ChemSky
Well I guess with that I'll reconsider the US conferences I wanted to send abstracts to...
#HellNaw I'm staying in Canada 😬 #chemchat
