Any chemistry types here?

[tombogan03884]

And Bacon's dead, what's your point?   

It was old age that killed him, not "explosives for fun and fame" 

[ratcatcher55]

Hazcat,

I quit balancing equations years ago. It could be those brain cells died around 1985.

I'm glad HazcatJr is good at math.  He'll need it for Thermodynamics.
I tried to help a friends daughter with that and realized I never understood it.

[Hazcat]

I want to thank all who tried to help and especially Doc and Tab, both of whom I and or my son talked to via phone.

Once again DRTV proves to be an invaluable source and a true family.

[TAB]

you know haz you got me in trouble with the wife...  she was trying to call me all that time. 

Sucks she is coming back home friday morning and I leave friday night for a week.     

[crusader rabbit]

Hey Haz,  if you haven't found a workable answer yet, go to :  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoichiometry and I think you will find what you are looking for.  If I recall my own chem classes (and chemestry was entirely too good to me to enable much recall) it has to do with atomic weight (how much an atom of stuff weighs) and valences (the electrons in one element that combine with the electrons in another element to make a compound).  Reactive stoichiometry is just the math involved in determining how much of what you will have when you start with known amounts of elemental stuff--and how much reaction or release of energy will occur when the combination happens.  It's all sort of useful to know if you are creating things that go boom.

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