What are great introductory resources online for useful home chemistry?
Hrm. I guess it depends on what type of "useful home chemistry" we're talking about.
Are we talking cleaning-with-baking-soda-and-vingegar level? Foods that change color vs. different pHs? Flavor chemistry? Ferrofluid? Tie-dye? Fluorescent uranium glass?
Gardening? 😃
My first instinct was to just answer google / duckduckgo, because I generally start there, but probably being a specialist in the field makes it a lot easier to sort through results on a case by case basis...
@GIMcGrew Hahaha, true on all counts. Seems like there's an unfortunate lack of useful chemistry orientation online, so I guess I was looking to see if you were aware of a solid general resource. Shame that something like that doesn't exist afaict. All the topics you listed sound fun and worth looking into, but gardening info especially seems lacking. Like, all I want is the kind of detail erowid users put into trip reports for aquaponic setups.
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/me raises a tentative hand
I haven't worked at the bench, as such, for a really long time, but I did get through grad school and a post-doc position or three, depending on how you count them before switching it up.
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Technically, I'm a molecular physicist, but I spend enough time thinking about chemistry that I'm pretty sure it still counts.
Edit – Oh wait, I see a different me has already replied to this thread.
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