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There are no tags for low dimensional materials or van der Waals materials. Would at least one tag for this class be in order?
Currently my exposure to Chemistry is through working on low dimensional materials, like Xenes (2D, often honeycomb materials like graphene, silicene, germanene, plumbene, bismuthene, hexagonal boron ...
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Should a question about mathematical models of glucose levels be tagged with analytical chemistry?
I am studying medicine and frequently on biochemistry classes I am deferred to analytical chemistry.
I want to ask on the main site (if it would be on topic) about modeling the concentration of ...
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Can I ask in the main site about Immunohistochemistry?
I would like to ask in the main site what does DO-7 detect/recognize, does it recognize wildtype P53 or mutant P53 , when does DO-7 give of a signal, if it gave of a signal only when it found a (...
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What is SE policy/practice regarding potentially offensive screen names?
"A user has chosen a screen name that could be construed as deeply offensive. Actually, aside from the possibility that it is intended as a joke (ie tongue-in-cheek), it can't be regarded as ...
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Posting answers has become harder than the questions!
I am having trouble posting answers here using my Samsung mobile device. When I try, I get an error. To clear the error I refresh the page, which works except now I always have to pass a CAPTCHA. Is ...
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Conversion of answers to comments
As I have not found a similar meta question googling site:chemistry.meta.stackexchange.com, I am asking:
What is/should be the mod policy to address answers (usually posted by low rep users), that are ...
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Is there a reliable way for non-mods to see traffic here?
My primary interest in becoming a mod was primarily to grow the site and make answers more authoritative with edits and cleaning up citations. While this can be done as a non-mod, I had access to ...
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Question on accuracy of possibly broken pH meter
This question: Accuracy of pH meters in MgSO4 solution discusses a specific pH meter and the user's frustration with how he's getting different values each time he tests.
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What is the purpose of read-only restriction for profiles?
I faced a nearly 3-day long read-only restriction in my initial days at Chemistry SE. I believe it was only a few days after I posted this question (I posted it on 1st Dec 2024, I got the restriction ...
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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A vote to do away with the sarcasm
I am going out on a limb here to make a humble request to all of the seasoned StackExchange Chem veterans that you limit the sarcastic responses to new contributors. The idea here is to encourage ...
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I've bountied my 4.7 year old Astronomy SE question three times and still no answer. In this particular case, is it OK to post it here also?
Near-simultaneous cross-posting is always bad. The primary concern is answer fragmentation.
Generally, flagging for moderator assistance to migrate is the way to go for questions that are less than ...
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How to flag issues with questions?
It seems difficult to flag questions for fix here - why is this so difficult? Many recent questions have broken images so I have flagged that but these answers have been been removed.
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Edits for no reason
I see there are many edits allowed from experienced users that have no useful edit summary and appear to make no attempt to actually improve experience
For instance see https://chemistry.stackexchange....
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What is the state of generative AI and what does it mean for Chemistry SE?
It's been about two years since the splashy release of ChatGPT brought chatbots to the general public's attention, (about a year after another AI tool, GitHub Co-Pilot, made a splash in the developer ...
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