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Ice Cream Making
An experiment for LBYMATC (Chemistry) under Mr. Richard Galian. Working in small batches produces ice cream quicker. If you wanna get results, fast, use about a cup of the ice cream liquid mixture, and just keep whisking over ice. Alternatively, you can whisk, put in freezer, come back in 20 minutes, whisk again, and repeat those steps two more times. That #39;ll yield a decent serving for one person. Perfect if you want to indulge yourself with home-made ice cream with a flavor of your choosing. Our flavor here was a Spicy, Mexican-Inspired Choco-Pepper Ice Cream. Aside from just milk, cream and sugar, it has some chocolate, cinnamon and cayenne pepper. Chocolate and chili actually play well together. 🙂 Music (c) Good Eats, no copyright infringement intended. Video was made for educational purposes.From:migscccsViews:2 0ratingsTime:02:57More inEntertainment

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Madhuri, Anil recreates their magic - NewsX
Madhuri Dixit and Anil Kapoor made audience go dhak dhak in the 90s. The couple was seen last seen together in Rajkumar Santoshi #39;s Pukar. But at colors #39; The Golden Petal Awards Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit shook a leg on the stage and brought alive the Ram-Lakhan memories by dancing to My Name is Lakhan and other hit tunes. Hope the filmmakers are watching the two together as the sizzling chemistry still seems alive. For more log on to http://www.newsx.comFrom:newsxliveViews:0 0ratingsTime:00:26More inEntertainment

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Its synthesis kickstarted organic chemistry and it’s widely used in industry.  But did you know that urea is pretty much odourless?? Find out more in this week’s Chemistry in its element

                  

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http://prospect.rsc.org/blogs/cw/2012/12/05/chemistry-in-its-element-urea/

The answer’s to these questions can be found here. Day 4 of the quiz can now be found here.

On the third day of Christmas… Well, you get the idea. It’s day 3 of the Chemistry World quiz.

Today’s first question is: Why was this (erroneous) structure of a chemical, isolated from fungi found on a dead log in Siberia, back in the news this year, after first causing controversy back in 2006?

What is this structure?

Who became president of the Royal Society of Chemistry in July? 

And now the answers to yesterday’s quiz. The giant of organic synthesis who joined Rice University was none other than K C Nicolaou.

The nerve gas that researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory figured out how to destroy safely using computer simulations was VX. Nicholas Cage’s approach to dealing with VX in the film The Rock could be described as rather more hands on! Finally, for the bonus point, the chemical name of VX is (O-ethyl S-[2-(diisopropylamino)ethyl] methylphosphonothioate). Very well done if you got that. You can read about the LANL scientists’ work here.

As always, don’t phone, it’s just for fun!

                  

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http://prospect.rsc.org/blogs/cw/2012/12/05/chemistry-world-quiz-day-3/

The other turtle dove must have flown

The answers to today’s quiz can be found here. Day 3′s quiz can be found here.

And on the second day of the Christmas quiz my true love brought to me…  the answers to yesterday’s posers (see below).

But first, it’s time for today’s questions: Which giant of total synthesis announced in September that he would be joining Rice University next year?

Richard Gee and his team at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, US, used molecular dynamics simulations to work out a way to decontaminate a deadly nerve gas, made famous by the Nicolas Cage film The Rock. What was the nerve agent ? Give yourself a bonus point if you know the chemical name of the compound!

And now the answers to yesterday’s brainteasers:

The molecule that resembles the Olympic rings was, of course, dubbed Olympicene. You can read our story about it here and read about the synthesis at Chemspider.

Craig Hill, an inorganic chemist at Emory University, was the researcher who asked for several of his papers to be retracted because he hadn’t actually broken the ‘oxo wall’ (the wall is a metaphor for the impossibility of forming terminal oxo bonds in elements in group 9 and beyond) as he first thought. You can read about the controversy here.

We’ll be back tomorrow with more questions.

                  

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http://prospect.rsc.org/blogs/cw/2012/12/04/chemistry-world-quiz-day-2/

CHEM 211 Safety Video Fall 2012
University of Michigan Chemistry 211 Safety video, Fall 2012 semester, Paul LaurenFrom:Paul ParkerViews:4 0ratingsTime:04:21More inScience Technology

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