John Cuthber

I'm sorry I didn't make myself clear to you. Most societies have laws that explicitly recognise the benefits that unions bring. For example, here in the UK, the health and safety legislation is jointly discussed by representatives of the Government, the Unions and Industry. So far as I'm aware there isn't a similar group for razorwire/ genital juxtaposition. So the population seems to vote in favour of governments that recognise the unions. Perhaps they are dumb, but I guess it's because they support unions. "Just seems like unions could end most criticism and the natural force against them if they changed their attitude to more of a labor provider rather than a labor lawyer." Isn't that a Gangmaster's job? Certainly Gangmasters are not usually found in the same industries as strong Unions. Incidentally, who do you think should have the role of labour lawyer? Most individuals can't really afford one, but most companies can. Do you feel that maintaining that iniquity is beneficial? I'm not sure what you mean by "Anytime they hand you a freakin' "book" of union bullshit, you know you're on your employers chopping block. ". Do you mean that Unions only distribute books when the company is about to fold? Is it that the employers sack people specifically because they are in unions? If it's the latter, are you in China? "Unions are very anti technology." Did you read what I said earlier? Here it is again; I am a member of a Union that only represents technical and professional staff (mainly scientists). I presume that, as a member of the union you got actively involved and tried to change their attitudes.

First, there's nothing wrong with your English that you need to worry about. Second I don't think I have ever seen molar absorbtivity data for IR spectra. Is the degradation on the surface of the polymer or is it through all the polymer? If it is on the surface then the path length is not well defined. If the two sorts of degradation are both on the surface then you might be able to compare them. Do you know what the degradation products are? Can you look at the IR spectra of compounds similar to the degradation products and see how strongly they absorb? You can certainly use IR data quantitatively. You need to convert from percent transmittance to absorbance- the same as with UV spectra.

A bunsen flame gets a lot hotter than that.

In base 10 we use exactly 10 symbols i.e. 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, and9 In base 2 we use 2 symbols i.e. 0, and 1 How many symbols would you use in base 0.5? On the other hand, if you wish to use only the symbols 0 and 1 you can have a sort of "base minus a half" with column values n places left of the "decimal point"of (-0.5)^n and on the right of the "decimal" point (-0.5)^-n It gets silly very quickly If I got the arithmetic right the column headings are -.125; 0.25; -0.5; 1; -2; 4; -8 So 1 through 6 are 1 0.11 1.11 0.01 1.01 0.111 Numbers "bigger" than 1 are fractions. If anyone ever finds a use for this I will be astounded.

What's wrong with a politically motivated proesecution? Imagine I'm the new president; I don't like former president Bloggs so I accuse him of some crime. Because of my position he gets taken to court. That's a politically motivated prosecution. Since there's no evidence the court finds in his favour and awards damages too while I look a complete ass. Who suffers here? If my claim of his misdeeds is correct then he gets treated just like any other criminal. The problem is if the courts are politically corrupted. (Hanging chads anyone?)

I don't have exact figures (not least because there are several Unions involved) but I believe that most of the people where I work are in a Union. Obviously, I can't speak for the whole of my country never mind another country. In any event plenty of people have not voted with their feet. Strictly speaking, what indicates that most people think they are a good idea is that they haven't been banned in democratic countries.

You might get an anthraquinone like by product from 2 dienes and a quinone but with a 20:1 ratio of quinone to butadiene there won't be muc.. The rest of it looks reasonable to me but it's not really my field.

If I were trying to get that effect I would use glass marbles and glycerine, but I'm sure lots of things would work.

"Who is the 44th president?" But I know that's not what you meant. Coloquially, you could say "Obama is the how manyth president?", but it's not good English.

Nice hypothesis. I am a member of a Union that only represents technical and professional staff (mainly scientists) some of whom are programmers. Its main jobs are to provide a representative for pay negotiation with employers and to represent employees who are being mistreated by their employers. Since we are not necessarilly talking about production lines or labourers but scientists and engineers, where does that leave your ideas?

Is the law for bringing those responsible for misdeeds to justice? Why should former leaders be exempt from that justice?

A couple of points. Eugenol is the dominant compound in clove oil. The major component of cinnamon is cinnamaldehyde- the hint is in the name. Long ago I tried making cinnamon beer in the way that people make ginger beer- basicly hot water, spice + sugar, leave it to cool then add yeast. If you do this with cinnamon you get a snotty looking mess. A friend of mine who also likes home-brewing had much the same experience. My guess is that the alcohol has evaporated and the stuff that's left is largey cinamon and water. I don't know if the slime is protein or starch or what, but it seems to be a common occurtence with cinnamon. Since you have formed it without heating I think starch is unlikely but I may be wrong..

You can get away with saying "How manyth in line are you?" in coloquial spoken English, but don't try putting it in an essay. It may be that in ten or a hundred years this will be acceptable English, -languages change. At the moment, there really isn't a general way of saying it in English. It would be better to ask "What position in the line are you?"

In the very real sense that employers now treat all their staff with dignity and respect. The fact that Unions were invented and are still supported (not just financially) by the workforce strongly sugests that most people still think the Unions are a good idea. If they didn't, they would vote with their wallets and ther feet. (BTW, I should declare an interest- I'm a TU official)

If unions were not a good idea (from at least some point of view) nobody would have invented them.

Activated charcoal has been used as a catalyst so you might have a point.

Oops. They ask someone to do it for them.

Do you have access to the internet?

You may get a apeak but trust me, N2 really doesn't absorb IR. As I said, if you have an absorbtion, it isn't due to N2. Is the peak at the right wavelength for CO?

Strictly, there isn't enough nformation to answer the question. Do they want 5% by volume or 5% by mass? If they want 5% by volume it's easy- 5% is 1 in 20 so you start with half a litre and end up with 20 times that much i.e. 10 Litres. If the want 5% by mass then you need to know the mass of 500ml of acetic acid. They tell you the number of moles per litre, if you know what a mole wieghs you can do the rest of the arithmetic easily.

As long as the total dose in the day is not greater than the "official" dose then you can take fewer (or smaller) tablets, but at shorter intervals. In fact this gives better control of pain because the levels of the drug in the blood don't fall so far. It's not often prescribed because people don't like taking pills that often.

Probably not. Some gases perhaps but not just any gas. Air is roughly a thousand times less dense than water so, by boyle's law you would need about 1000 bar pressure to get it as dense as water. However the critical pressures of oxygen and nitrogen are much lower than that so you wouldn't be swimining in a gas, but in a supercritical fluid (assuming it didn't do anything silly like solidify).

The reactivity series is a bit of an oversimplification. If they had drawn the cutoff so that Al was listed as one of the metals that react with water then we would all be happy. From the point of view of the energy released Al certainly reacts with water and that's the viewpoint often taken in such series whern you look at the more sophisticated version (where numbers are put against the metals, so it's not just a rank but a measurement scale) . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_standard_electrode_potentials

No you would need roughly 7% ammonia to get what might be called the equivalent of 14% ammonium hydroxide. Incidentally pure NH3 is a very soluble gas. I doubt that, if you need to ask this sort of question, you will be able to get pure ammonia. BTW, you are not meant to cross post so please delete your other post about this.

N2 doesn't have any absorbtion in the IR region. If you have a peak, it isn't N2.