"Ross A. Finlayson" wrote:
>
> When I was a little kid, I remember assigning scientific rules to things that were
> not correct. For example, I thought you could just string the letters of the
> periodic table to get new compounds, without at the time knowing that the
Actually, you would get some rather nifty results if you'd be willing to experiment
a lot (mixing up random aliquots of a bunch random elements in a quartz reaction
vessel, and popping it in an oven), and restrict yourself to just four PSE symbols.
Modern variation of this, augmented with advances in analytics is combinatorial
chemistry. Creating molecular libraries, brimming with diversity, and screen for
a desired property.
> compounds had structural reasons for their construction. I think kids have a
> pretty good grasp of reality in terms of ghosts that don't exist or Santa Claus
> that they are grounded in reality.
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