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If you know the concentration of H+ or H3O+, you are home and dry. You take the log of the value and take the negative of what you get (the logs are almost invariably -ve, so this procedure gives you a +ve value for the pH.) If you want to find the pH without knowing the concentration of H+ (or H3O+), you need to know the dissociation constant for the species present. For pure water we know this, of course. For other solutions, it depends what you've got. They are documented for many molecules. For example you can find values of Ka for all the commonly encountered acids. It is also possible to calculate equilibrium constants, in principle including dissociation constants, from the thermodynamics of the species involved: ΔG = -RT lnK, where ΔG is the change in Gibbs free energy for the dissociation.

That's a fair point, certainly.

From measurement, [H3O+] and [OH-] are each 10⁻⁷ mol/l in pure water at room temp, hence you get a pH of 7 and an ionic product, Kw of 10⁻¹⁴. It looks as if you have calculated the number of moles of pure H3O+and OH- you would have in a litre, if water were 100% ionised. But, as it is only very slightly ionised, so you will get wrong numbers that way. At least, this is how it looks to me at first glance.

Aha, that's interesting. But this must be a universal issue, then, in cooking with stainless steel vessels, since salt is an essential ingredient in cooking almost anything. Why are we not all poisoned?

We have a stainless steel cooking pot, some salt and some water. Where would ferricyanide come from?

No. I've had with you, pal. You're a timewaster.

To me, this has the hallmarks of someone with an idée fixe who is trying to preserve it by deliberate misunderstanding, i.e. arguing in bad faith. I don't see the point in carrying on with this, now.

Well we can rule out the latter in this context, but some MgCO₃ could be present in hard water I suppose. Does that mean you discount the reassurance given in the link in my first post on this thread?

A vibrating object is just the same as your body, just doing it faster.

Well, still a bit wrong, but you seem at least to be accepting that internal forces within the body (of the muscles acting on the bones of the skeleton) cause the centre of gravity of the body to move up and down, in reaction to contact with the floor. Do we agree on that?

Yeah but how are you going to get Cr (0) up to Cr(+6) without a strong oxidising agent? Salt water and a bit of atmospheric oxygen is never going to do that, surely, is it?

A yellowish tinge would be consistent with iron, certainly. I would not expect any health concerns. Iron itself is not a problem and I would have thought the makers of cooking pans would avoid any alloy components that might give health issues if they were to leach out through corrosion. The main other constituent of stainless steel is Cr. It seems to be Cr +6 that is hazardous, but the product of any corrosion due to salt (NaCl) will be lower oxidation states that are apparently not a problem. I found this link which may provide some reassurance: https://bssa.org.uk/bssa_articles/does-the-chromium-in-stainless-steel-contain-chrome-6-cr6-and-is-this-a-potential-health-hazard/

A "jar of pure electrons" would mean an accumulation of -ve charge. You can do this to some degree with something like a Leyden Jar, in other words a capacitor. And you can use those to produce an electric discharge, which involves an arc. But you would not use the photoelectric effect for that, I don't think. You would need something that can "push" the electrons together, against their mutual repulsion, in other words a high voltage. You won't get that from the photoelectric effect.

Not hydrogen atoms. You want a conducting solid material, such as a metal plate, because the idea - at least as I recall it - is that with light above a certain frequency a current flows in a circuit, due to the emitted electrons, whereas below that frequency it doesn't. The experimental setup to "catch" the emitted electrons is shown in this diagram from the Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelectric_effect#/media/File:Photoelectric_effect_measurement_apparatus_-_microscopic_picture.svg You can certainly ionise hydrogen or other gases with light with energy above the ionisation energy for the gas, but this is not what people mean when they talk about the photoelectric effect. As for capturing and containing them, you will struggle because they will repel one another and a bulk -ve charge will accumulate.

There is a useful article here about the care needed when interpreting raw numbers from VAERS: https://www.ibtimes.com/over-900-died-after-receiving-covid-19-vaccine-experts-say-data-misinterpreted-3153820 So the answer I think is no, they have not been investigated for possible causality, nor are there necessarily grounds for doing so. By the look of it, it may be the old post hoc ergo propter hoc trap. It seems quite hard to find the data you are looking for viz. the risk of fatal side effects of the vaccine in fit and healthy under 30yr olds. I have been able to find the relative risk due to the virus of death, hospitalisation by age bands in the US, but this does not filter out the fit and healthy from the others: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investigations-discovery/hospitalization-death-by-age.html I suspect that, for the cohort you are interested in, the main issues will be (i) the risk to them of Long Covid from the virus, and (ii) the increased spreading of the virus in the population by this group if they are not vaccinated - and hence the potential for further variants to arise. I also suspect we simply do not have data on all this, given that the disease has only been with us for 18 months and given the huge number of variables, e.g. there are more than 5 vaccines in widespread use, there are half a dozen variants of the virus, all with their own characteristics, etc. The only further thing I can contribute is that, in the UK, people under 30 are recommended not to have the Astra/Zeneca vaccine but one of the others, due to the low but finite risk of blood clots. I would think the same applies to the Johnson & Johnson one, as that, I gather, uses similar technology. So Pfizer and Moderna seem to be fine for younger people. And by being vaccinated you do your bit for society by stopping the spread and reducing the chance of further lockdowns due to new variants. Plus you avoid the risk of long Covid, like my 25yr old nephew, and which I myself have had a brush with, as a fittish 65yr old.

Unaccountably, this film does not seem to been reviewed in Nature.😁 I did find this: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2124189/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Can you provide a reference to somebody authoritative who says this? It is not my understanding of how this machine works.

Why do you think they should have been carried out in theory? In theory, surely, a Wimshurst machine will work perfectly well in a vacuum, won't it? I can't see that it relies on the atmosphere in order to function. Or do you see it differently?

I don't think anyone says dark matter is incomprehensible. In fact there is a fair amount of work going on to enable us to comprehend it. It seems to be an unknown form of matter, but that doesn't make it incomprehensible.

Suppose the trouble with that is that YOU then get death threats, from blokes with beards and MAGA hats!

Could be the latter if the rate of generation of new variants exceeds the ability of vaccines to keep up. We are years from vaccinating the whole population.

I'm not sure about citric acid. With free amines you may get ammonium citrates I suppose, but then you would have got ammonium acetates with vinegar. I've a feeling whatever is creating the odour - and it may not just be amines - may have penetrated into the plastic. Some of these things smell very strong so your nose may detect even traces. (I once had to get rid of an old fridge that had failed 6 months previously, with some frozen shellfish in the freezer compartment! It was in a family holiday house on an island in Brittany, that was not used in the winter months. I had to talk to myself about the chemistry of amines all the time I was cleaning it out, just to avoid gagging.)

Well, actually, checking homework is not my absolute favourite pastime....... This all looks fine to me. You are not doing a reaction with an excess of one of the reactants here, so don't worry about that. I assume from your comments at the end that 2.68 metric tonnes of coal is burnt per person per year in your country. I assume this is the US, as you have had to convert to the old Imperial units at the end - something we gave up in Britain when I was at school in the 1970s. And yes you have one mole of carbon reacting with one mole of diatomic oxygen molecules to make one mole of CO2. My only comment on your working is that you may find it better, soon, to start getting used to standard form (exponential or scientific notation) to express the numbers, to get rid of all these zeros which can become easy to miscount. So 2680kg = 2.68 x 10³ kg = 2.68 x 10⁶ g. But maybe you have not come to that yet. You seem to know what you are doing so have confidence in your other calculations. I expect you have got them right.

Well of course they are not tetrahedra. They have a square base.So like any square pyramid they have 5 sides. A tetrahedron has a triangular base. But this film is worthless. I quote Wikipedia: "The Revelation of the Pyramids (French: La révélation des pyramides) is a conspiracy theory pseudo-scientific documentary directed by Patrice Pooyard and released in 2010."

I suspect some of the hydrocarbon-soluble species, perhaps amines etc., have become adsorbed or even partly dissolved into the plastic material. I've always found this sort of thing very hard to remove. You may have to get a new one. Or you could try leaving it out in the sun for a month or something, to see if sunlight can break down the odour-creating species. But I don't have any suggestions for a quick fix if you have tried both ozone and chlorine based bleaches...unless possibly hydrogen peroxide might help. But I'm just guessing.