Posted by Larry Hoover on March 6, 2006, at 12:47:00
In reply to Re: the chemistry of Deneb » Larry Hoover, posted by Deneb on March 6, 2006, at 12:12:44
> > Deneb* is excited.
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> > Lar
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> I was thinking the * could be the electron.It's not standard symbols, though. Deneb dot is the radical Deneb. The * designates an electron bumped up into a higher state by a photon. Deneb + photon --> Deneb*
> I told you I wasn't a chemist. :-P
Piffle. You just needed a refresher.
> I don't even completely remember what a singlet, doublet or triplet is right now!
Orbital degeneracy.
> Okay, let's just say Deneb is like chlorophyll and I've just absorbed some photons. LOL
See! You knew it was a photon. You're playing games with me.
> Let's not get started on resonance here. LOLThat's quite another thing entirely. Are you a carboxylate anion?
> Deneb* (the asterisk means I'm the new Deneb who is *very* careful to check for triggers and uncivil things)That's fine with me! :-)
> Okay, enough of this, I gotta go study for real! Or else I won't even know what an electron is.
If you know what an electron is, you won't know where it is, though.
> LOL JK, off to study some animal physiology.
That's always useful information to absorb.
Lar
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