Bruce Lickey

PhD candidate at @UVMchemistry and @GeneseoChem alum. A pile of atoms that wanted to know how atoms work ⟨🇯🇵|🇺🇸⟩ • he/him

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Here’s a nice visual demo of the LaPorte selection rule in action! #RealTimeChem

Normally in water, Co(II) ions coordinate to 6 water molecules. The resulting octahedral structure is a weak pink color, arising from a LaPorte-forbidden d→d transition.
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@bunnnybop My voice is never going to recover from this weekend

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Recently discovered crowdsourced materials libraries for Blender, which is great because it means I save lots of time not having to make materials from scratch, but also because it means I can turn all my carbon atoms into balls of French fries

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@andrechemist I have the same one! Did notice the weird “color coding”, but the first thing that stood out was definitely the weirdly anachronistic elements for what looks like it’s supposed to be antique-y

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isn't that a Blink-182 album

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@MoleculesGoHard Can’t believe I just looked at the word myrosinase and read it with full confidence as mayonnaise

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@AJMansfield_ @xkcd Ok this is absolutely epic

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Dear god what have I done

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@FerroceneFanBoy I don’t even have words for how much I love this. Somehow both a relic of its time, while also being way ahead of its time

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We were only delaying the inevitable

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@andrechemist With a soft G, like “lijand”

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@picardie_aurora

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At first glance thought that the authors of this inorganic textbook decided to cut the periodic table down to just the good half, before realizing that there was in fact a second page

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@andrechemist One time the words “bipy longstocking” appeared in my head and I had to drop everything that I was doing in order to make this:

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@coal_______ 5% pleasure, 50% pain, and 100% sulfonated hydroxymethane

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@jennyjoyces I love this so much

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@tevetorbes If necrobotics isn’t the most metal word to have entered the English lexicon in recent history then I don’t know what is

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Trying to insert a special character in Microsoft Office be like

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@AShettle @bronwyn @sheardcat @duane_g_watson It absolutely is not an innocuous gesture in modern-day Japan. While there are definitely some people (namely, older folk) who don’t know what it means, the vast majority of youth understand it is a rude gesture, largely owing to western media influence. It’s used all the time.

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Someone help me write this into a grant proposal

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@pinenut666 @JMChem_ To the best of my understanding, yes, that is a large part of what accounts for the differences in intensity. Speaking purely electronically, the d orbitals themselves are centrosymmetric, and the full picture requires a consideration of orbital mixing.

[Bruce Lickey @BruceLickey]

Here’s a nice visual demo of the LaPorte selection rule in action! #RealTimeChem

Normally in water, Co(II) ions coordinate to 6 water molecules. The resulting octahedral structure is a weak pink color, arising from a LaPorte-forbidden d→d transition.
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