MeadowBubble

I haven't.

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happy birthday to yoooooooooooooooooou~

[6/16/2012 6:30:39 PM] meadowbubble: Chem -.-
[6/16/2012 6:31:21 PM] meadowbubble: 10 mins has felt like an hour

Join the club. We've got jackets.

Guess who is back xDD

MeadowBubble, it's not a problem at all. I'm always available to ask if you need any sort of help. Chem's my strong point, which is fortunate as I know many people struggle with it.

MeadowBubble, transmutation is when one atom of an element (or an isotope) changes into another via nuclear reaction. That's usually done by gain or loss of the various particles.

An alpha particle is a helium atom, [4 2]He. (The top number is the mass number; the bottom is the number of protons.)
A beta particle is an element of nuclear decay and it's usually an electron, written as [0 -1]e.
A gamma particle is also called a gamma ray and it's basically just a high energy photon. It's written as [0 0]y...or to be more accurate, the lowercase Greek letter gamma. (It just looks like a y.)

Neutrons are written as [1 0]n. Protons don't usually exist by themselves, so I don't know what they're written as.

In nuclear reactions, they're balanced similarly to chemical reactions, except this time, you need to make sure the sums of the top and the bottom numbers on each side are equal to that on the other side. This is somewhat simple but it gets tricky when gamma emission is involved since those have zero mass and zero charge, but the book will usually hint that it's a gamma-emission reaction.

MeadowBubble, yeah, I know about those. There's alpha, beta, and gamma particles, plus protons, neutrons, and electrons, and then a few other small things.

MeadowBubble, nuclear chemistry?
I know a smattering, such as decomposition reactions and stuff, as well as how NMR works.
I might be able to help. What's on your mind?

MeadowBubble, you get used to it pretty quickly.

And yeah...there's more to it. Just be thankful you only had to take a high school o-chem course instead of a college-level one.

Out of interest, did they ever teach you the SN1, SN2, E1, and E2 reaction classes in o-chem?

MeadowBubble, :/ I'm at joeys house, can we talk when I get home?

Please check fb messages if you see this. We need to finalize plans for the prerelease.

Meadowbubble, we need to somehow battle each other haha
and yes, as you know, im sick
anyway maybe ill convince myself to go on tcg, idk -.-

BUBBLE!
=D

Meadowbubble, Gonna go try to finish this league with the green deck haha. lmk if u make a deck sometime

Meadowbubble, okay I'll make sure I call when I get back byesies

Call you as in actual call? haha just making sure
but I have to go to stop and shop soon lol. but when I get back then sure

Yay ur online

Hi haha