The Recipe to Build a Universe
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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What Is Chemistry and How Does It Work?
Chemistry is all about the outermost electrons. And you can think of an atom, in a sense, as having this very, very hard kernel in the centre,. You then have these diffuse layers onion like electrons nd the outside. It's the outermost ones which are involved in doing the chemistry. So sometimes, i mean, worries me that people say, oh, you know, th it's not possible that life could have sort have emerged spontaneously because we keep being told about this particle theory of matter. Chemists call dilute acidis nogt point, one molar in the mouth, it's not dilute. My teeth were rubby for weeks after they tasted
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