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Closing as duplicate when the first question has no answer
A question was closed as duplicate:
What exactly is meant by standard state in thermodynamics?
However, the question it now points to has no answer:
Standard state conditions in thermodynamics
The old ...
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I had a question that did not have all of the information needed to fully answer. Is it better to rewrite the question, or start a new question?
There was this question "How do I determine temperature and pressure rise whenever mols of gases are added in a isolated room?" that I attempted to answer - but in the end I found myself in ...
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Addition of the cite link revisited
Triggered by a question on academia.se about a possibly AI generated publication under review (link), and drawing inspiration from mattermodelling.se, I became curious if their ...
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suggest to improve visibilty of the resources page
observation:
Thanks to community effort, there is a page about resources learning Chemistry. Some moments ago it was possible to answer a question related to chemical nomenclature (link) with copy-...
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Why does the "people reached" always have a ~ sign?
We know that the ~ is used before a number to say it's approximate.
But in the case of people reached, the uncertainty comes when 1000 people is passed (after it all numbers has a k to denote kilo or ...
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Does the way votes are shown make sense?
In the question feed, each question shows data about votes, answers and views on the left hand side, e.g.
The answers and views make sense mathematically, and the grammar works. However, the votes ...
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Brand New Idea: Make it mandatory for downvoters to comment their reason for downvoting!
(The title is meant to be a bit tongue in cheek)
To preface things:
I do not think it should be compulsory for downvoters to explain the reasoning behind their downvote since some might be doing it ...
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Why was my question downvoted and closed?
In regards to this question. Why? As a long term participant of many stackexchangr sites, I simply can not come up with any explanation except targeted downvoting.
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Answers getting deleted due to deleted questions
I have recently noted that a question that I had answered has been deleted by the Community bot along with which my answer was deleted too. Also I had no downvotes on my answer and it had 0 score ...
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Why are compound formulae not rendering properly using \ce tag?
Basically, everywhere I use the \ce tag on chemistry stack exchange, I get wrong formulae. The subscripts are becoming superscripts while the superscripts are becoming subscripts. Is it just me or is ...
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I am not able to post new questions even though I have asked good questions in the past
I have posted a total of 7 questions on CSE. Only one question received downvotes (due to a miscalculation, which I resolved), while I received 7 upvotes on the other 6 questions. Why am I not able to ...
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A moderator has been harassing me. What should I do?
Recently, I have been receiving comments from a particular (unnamed for anonymity) moderator which fall under harassment and rude/condescending (use of vulgar/strong language) category of the Code of ...
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Anonymous one-click survey for downvotes [duplicate]
Recently, I have been receiving downvotes on some of my questions and answers without obtaining a clear understanding as to why these downvotes were made. I wanted to propose a short anonymous one-...
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How to encourage visitors to search the site?
Yes, this is a likely duplicate. I should have searched meta first. In that self-referential spirit....
There has been imo an uptick of late, possibly seasonal, in homeworkish posts, many likely ...
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Can these tags (pKa, Salt-bridge) be created?
pKa, salt-bridge, coulombic interactions are important concepts for both chemistry, biochemistry, biology aspects. One would expect them to be quite hot topics. Strangely, however no such tags seem to ...
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