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NNadir

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4. Ok, whatever. I don't see a logical error, but if you do, you're free to enlighten me.

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #3)

Fri Apr 17, 2020, 06:54 PM

Apr 2020

Or, you can avoid bothering. I really am not interested.

This post was designed around a throw away "punctilio," for fun, not a picayune quiz game. I was simply noting a historical point that the nature of solvated electrons was discovered very early in the history of understanding electrons.

If there's some deeper meaning, I don't get it.

Jeezus.

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Science History Punctilio: The Free Solvated Electron Was Discovered Before its Mass Was Determined. [View all] NNadir Apr 2020 OP

Rarely is mass of something determined before it is discovered. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2020 #1

Thank you. I seem to have had a typo in the title, which I fixed. NNadir Apr 2020 #2

You fixed the double paste, but not the logical error. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2020 #3

Ok, whatever. I don't see a logical error, but if you do, you're free to enlighten me. NNadir Apr 2020 #4

As I previously stated: "Rarely is mass of something determined before it is discovered." Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2020 #5

The *solvated* electron was discovered, before the electron was weighed. eppur_se_muova Apr 2020 #6

Thanks. It seemed it would have been easy to make that kind of clarification, but .... . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2020 #7