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Andre the Chemist

@andrechemist.bsky.social

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Noted rhenium hater and **undefeated** youth soccer coach (total of one game coached).

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · May 1

I want to be able to pin another person's post to my profile.

steve @stupidlikeafox.bsky.social · May 1

Just saving this statement for later, don’t mind me

9 out of 10 sickos agree with Andre’s favorite drink order

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Matt Hartings @matthartings.bsky.social · 6h

Stupid. Evil. Fucking dangerous.
I really feel for these dedicated public servants.
We are much less safe as a country than we were yesterday.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 14h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Alex Speed @awhspeed.bsky.social · 19h

If you wanted to buy lanthanum powder or lanthanum turnings, what would your preferred vendor be? Doesn't need to be super pure, don't want to pay > $1000 for 25 gram, when the salts are way less than that.

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 18h

Unsolicited click pic

Image showing a comparison of the Huisgen and the copper-catalyzed Azide-Alkyne cycloadditions with chemical structures.

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 18h

Seems less fun than the original tbh

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Michael O’Neill @michaeloneill.org · 1d

Teaching scientific writing like

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

The harpoon was hurled.

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 19h

I forgot for a second you were north of the border. Especially now that can be a big hurdle.

Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 19h

That's for US, not sure what happens when you cross the border. If you need smuggling, let me know, I'll see what I can do.

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 19h

Strem has the powder for less than $500 for 50 g.

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 19h

This feels relatable.

Text that reads "Petersburg, where he taught until 1885.

In the 1880s pressures of work and ill health left him little time for composition. He died suddenly in 1887 while at a ball."

Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 19h

Dinitrobutane. Pronounced "die-knit-trobe-you-tain".

It was one of the top 5 shows on tv. Just talk to a chemist.

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 19h

News organizations could say "we went to Portland and did not see any evidence for what he claimed was happening" but they don't. They could also say "the president is delusional" but they don't.

Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 19h

whoa what!?!

yarn yoshi stan account @cycl0pentadiene.bsky.social · 20h

today i learned that borodin the russian composer was also one of the chemists to discover the aldol reaction???

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yarn yoshi stan account @cycl0pentadiene.bsky.social · 20h

today i learned that borodin the russian composer was also one of the chemists to discover the aldol reaction???

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Dr. Z @skzingales.bsky.social · 21h

Candy corn reaction #chemsky

A conical vial with three layers of solution: yellow, white, orange

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“Tomb” Swanson @swansontea.bsky.social · 1d

A truly smart TV would replace the audio so that the doorbell sounds in the show are different from your dwelling’s doorbell

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Will @popher.bsky.social · 23h

This was pretty sick though

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 1d

Or... the aeronautical engineers were drunk.

Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently that's how they really made it?

A CD-2 Seastar with dual propellers, one facing forward and the other facing backwards on the same central housing.

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yes. "Research" *wink* *wink*

Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 1d

(feel free to ignore the context of the original post)

Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 1d

Inorganic chemistry evergreen post.

Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 1d

Having all those metal atoms helps!

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 1d

Generous of you to think he would be able to understand the knock knock joke format.

Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 1d

It sure isn't. Very weird indeed.

Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 1d

The song is not even one of their singles, nor is it from the album Grave Dancers Union. Where the hell did this even come from?

Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 1d

The song is not even one of their singles, nor is it from the album Grave Dancers Union. Where the hell did this even come from?

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 1d

Just sitting here, minding my own business when a song by Soul Asylum that I haven't thought about much in the past thirty years pops into my head and won't get out.

Brains are weird.

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