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@webmind @AgNO3Kate @DialMforMara has some better pictures of Vancouver she can share. You kind of have to work to get one as ugly as the prior one ;)

@webmind @AgNO3Kate Only due to us never updating the definition. I grew up in a "city" of 100-200K people and let me tell you: it wasn't. It was a suburb.

Hamilton, Ontario PRETENDS to be a city at 500K, and it almost succeeds? It sort of has a night-life and some culture?

@webmind @AgNO3Kate Also, Vancouver has mostly much nicer views than that; it is consistently one of the best looking places I've lived.

@webmind @AgNO3Kate Can you name a real city that DOESN'T have that? (Real means > 1 million people)

@webmind @AgNO3Kate Isn't part of the definition of a city a skyline of skyscrapers?

@webmind @AgNO3Kate .....have you never lived in a city?

@webmind @AgNO3Kate Just a low cloud ceiling. Look at the skyline and you can see blue sky. Not actually raining today.

@webmind @AgNO3Kate *Looks at picture, looks normal to me* ...why the oh god?

Also, I did a very simple and interesting reaction that happens when you put uranyl in light with water around, and while this has been known for a long time, to do it on a useful scale you normally need to add some powerful chemicals, and I did it without those.

#RealTimeChem #Chem #Chemistry #Science

So I've combined these in a number of ways that haven't been done before, and this is interesting as there has been very little work in this area with uranium, and if we know enough about how uranium and other things like to stick together we can start designing useful materials made of these things.

#RealTimeChem #Chem #Chemistry #Science

The building blocks I'm using are a gold compound known as "Dicyanoaurate" and a uranium compound known as uranyl.

Dicyanoaurate is a long stick made of gold and cyanide that links to other things at the ends. Uranyl is a stick as well, made of uranium and oxygen. However, it likes to attach to other things around its middle.

#RealTimeChem #Chem #Chemistry #Science

Non-scientist explanation of my paper:

Coordination polymers are a class of material where I take a couple of units and link them together into a larger structure. Think of lego, where I can take two different shapes and link them into a larger structure. In this case, I'm making long stacks of them, or chains. So think of me linking together a bunch of 2x2 green lego squares and 2x4 black lego rectangles. #RealTimeChem #Chem #Chemistry #Science

@susannah Also, I did a very simple and interesting reaction that happens when you put uranyl in light with water around, and while this has been known for a long time, to do it on a useful scale you normally need to add some powerful chemicals, and I did it without those.

@susannah So I've combined these in a number of ways that haven't been done before, and this is interesting as there has been very little work in this area with uranium, and if we know enough about how uranium and other things like to stick together we can start designing useful materials made of these things.

@susannah The building blocks I'm using are a gold compound known as "Dicyanoaurate" and a uranium compound known as uranyl.

Dicyanoaurate is a long stick made of gold and cyanide that links to other things at the ends. Uranyl is a stick as well, made of uranium and oxygen. However, it likes to attach to other things around its middle.

@susannah Non-scientist explanation:

Coordination polymers are a class of material where I take a couple of units and link them together into a larger structure. Think of lego, where I can take two different shapes and link them into a larger structure. In this case, I'm making long stacks of them, or chains. So think of me linking together a bunch of 2x2 green lego squares and 2x4 black lego rectangles.

@steko Not yet, but there will be at some point through my university library. I can also email you a copy if you want.

My first primary author paper has been published! http://doi.org/10.1039/C7DT00942A "Dicyanoaurate-based heterobimetallic uranyl coordination polymers" #RealTimeChem

Going online with Crystallography streaming at twitch.tv/Canageek --Come and join and see what happens when you give a chemist access to x-ray equipment and crystals that need their structure determined. #RealTimeChem