Re: the chemistry of Deneb » Larry Hoover

Posted by Deneb on March 6, 2006, at 14:04:39

In reply to Re: the chemistry of Deneb » Deneb, posted by Larry Hoover on March 6, 2006, at 12:47:00

> > > Deneb* is excited.
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> > > Lar
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> > I was thinking the * could be the electron.
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> It's not standard symbols, though. Deneb dot is the radical Deneb. The * designates an electron bumped up into a higher state by a photon. Deneb + photon --> Deneb*
Yeah, I know that, I just didn't remember what a singlet, triplet and doublet are. I know they have something to do with where the electrons are in their orbitals. I guess I mistakenly remembered that doublets are radicals or something.
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> > I told you I wasn't a chemist. :-P
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> Piffle. You just needed a refresher.
Yeah, I really do. I actually dropped my organic chem last semester because I wasn't "getting" it fast enough...then again going to class and doing the assignments might have helped... I should have gotten a tutor...too late now!

> > Okay, let's just say Deneb is like chlorophyll and I've just absorbed some photons. LOL
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> See! You knew it was a photon. You're playing games with me.
LOL, that's about all I do know. Heehee, I like chlorophyll, it's green.
> > Let's not get started on resonance here. LOL
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> That's quite another thing entirely. Are you a carboxylate anion?
I was thinking of the rings on the chlorophyll molecule, the photon "capturing" part. There are a lot of alternating double and single bonds there. Am I remembering things right? LOL, maybe I'm just talking nonsense right now.
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> > Deneb* (the asterisk means I'm the new Deneb who is *very* careful to check for triggers and uncivil things)
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> That's fine with me! :-)
I'm going to put the asterisk in only after I've checked my post for triggers and incivility.
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> > Okay, enough of this, I gotta go study for real! Or else I won't even know what an electron is.
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> If you know what an electron is, you won't know where it is, though.
No kidding!
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> > LOL JK, off to study some animal physiology.
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> That's always useful information to absorb.
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> Lar
Haha, very funny. ;-)
Deneb*

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Re: the chemistry of Deneb » Larry Hoover Deneb 3/6/06
Wow! I now feel incredibly stupid. (nm) TexasChic 3/9/06

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