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Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 12:39:24 UTC No. 16469542
why is chemistry such an inexact and incomplete science?
🗑️ Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 12:42:29 UTC No. 16469544
>>16469542
You're relying on chaotic mixing reactions to create exactly what you want.
It's a miracle it works at all.
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 12:50:10 UTC No. 16469550
>>16469542
Has too many variables to control for, like impurities, its that simple.
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 14:25:39 UTC No. 16469607
>>16469542
"Chemistry" is just playing with atoms and everything at the atomic level, and smaller is probabilistic(QM), which means nothing ever truly "always" or "never" happens. Multiply this by every "interaction"/time two atoms bump into each other and you can see how it become impossible to make accurate predictions beyond a certain point. That being said, we do pretty good and as long as things are the size of an atom, or larger, we can usually get what we want, with enough effort, but anything smaller than an atom, and things get very "weird" very fast, which just means unpredictable and unreliable.
Anonymous at Sun, 10 Nov 2024 17:14:29 UTC No. 16469755
kys
Anonymous at Mon, 11 Nov 2024 16:54:47 UTC No. 16470982
'cos the Schroedinger equation shits itself if there are more than two electrons
Anonymous at Tue, 12 Nov 2024 09:26:00 UTC No. 16471797
>>16470982
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if you can’t solve the three-body problem in a closed form in classical mechanics, you sure as hell can’t in quantum
Anonymous at Tue, 12 Nov 2024 10:01:09 UTC No. 16471815
>>16469542
It’s probably the most compact and objectively proven scientific branch there is. Even more so then physics in general.
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 01:48:05 UTC No. 16472710
>>16469542
Some things in analytical and physical chemistry can be measured or calculated very exactly. The important thing is knowing what systems are more conducive to high precision.
Some behavior is well estimated with simple models; take ideal gasses. Why do some systems require more complicated numerical techniques?
Anonymous at Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:55:01 UTC No. 16473599
>>16469542
Chemistry is an incredibly exact and complete science. What the fuck do you want at this point? Literal magic?