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    Default I don't understand Chemistry

    An am extremely jealous of those that do.

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    If you can cook you can understand chemistry.

    Food is edible chemistry.

    If you want to start easy go with yeast: learn to home brew beer and make you own bread.
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    Chemistry is the Science of Things That Go Bang.

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    Pretty simple no, neutrons are mass, and protons and and electrons bind together

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    Default Re: I don't understand Chemistry

    Quote Originally Posted by Fragony View Post
    Pretty simple no, neutrons are mass, and protons and and electrons bind together
    Well, that is clearly wrong. Protons and electrons hate each other. The nucleus is the culmination of neutrons and protons, the main source of mass. Electrons just like to fly around the nucleus.


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    Quote Originally Posted by spankythehippo View Post
    Well, that is clearly wrong. Protons and electrons hate each other. The nucleus is the culmination of neutrons and protons, the main source of mass. Electrons just like to fly around the nucleus.
    Protons have no mass

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    Quote Originally Posted by Papewaio View Post
    If you can cook you can understand chemistry.

    Food is edible chemistry.

    If you want to start easy go with yeast: learn to home brew beer and make you own bread.
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    Chemistry is the Science of Things That Go Bang.
    Neither of these are really enlightening towards understanding the fundamental beauty of chemistry that is essential to properly understanding what it is about. Another "enlightening" definition I have come across is that chemistry is really the study of the electron.

    Chemistry is the study of matter but bounded to only the dimensional scales that us humans can actually manipulate, which at this point is down to the individual atom (to go any further down is probing the nucleus which begins to enter the realm of particle physics). Everything that constitutes Chemistry is essentially the numerous relations and principles repeatedly observed through empirical experimentation over the last 400 years.

    Just for anybody curious visiting this thread, there are really good starter Chemistry videos at both Khanacademy.org as well as the CrashCourse Chemistry series which is currently ongoing.


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    Chemistry is that special magic that allows boys and girls to get together, and after they get along well enough, they can make more boys and girls. When that special magic fails, some people resort to

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    Quote Originally Posted by Strike For The South View Post
    An am extremely jealous of those that do.

    Moles and Avocados are best left to the Mexicans
    https://www.khanacademy.org/science/chemistry

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