Monthy Roundup: July 2024
Trying out a new post format. Things you might have missed this month:
The elemental reblog posts this month went through gold, mercury, thallium, lead, and the first couple of bismuth posts
Materials posts included reblogs of uranium glass and kovar with a new post on germanane
Safety Sunday posts covered electrical, laser, and radiation safety, wrapping up with general chemical handling
Measurement Monday posts covered the SI base units of the mole and luminous intensity, as well as how to measure luminous intensity, and finished off with a post on derived units
Transformation Tuesday posts went through supercooling, superfluids, metastable phases, the glass transition, and spinodal decomposition
Waste Wednesday posts covered silver recycling, ferrous sulfate waste, titanium recycling, and polyethylene and polytetrafluoroethylene recycling
Thermodynamic Thursday posts discussed Maxwell's Demon, absolute zero, the third law of thermodynamics, and state functions
Failure Friday posts showed fracture surfaces for transgranular, ductile, and fatigue fractures, before ending off with a post on structural failures
Scientist Saturday posts introduced Paul Merica, Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer, George Thomson, and Arnold Sommerfeld
In terms of tags, the most common tags were electronics, polymers, nanotechnology, materials characterization, materials processing, biomaterials, catalysts, and waste. The most common element tag was hydrogen, with gold, titanium, nickel, and oxygen (as the oxides tag) the next most common.
A few tags used this month that are pretty rare on the blog include the following four: americium, caffeine, crabs, and curium.
For the newcomers, welcome! The list of tags I use on my blog can be found here, a list of online MSE resources can be found here, and if you want to join our tumblr community just ask for an invite and I'll send one along!
