Thanks for the link! I suspect I do not have the rudiments of what I'd need to understand that paper, but I do appreciate the offer. (I do in fact recreationally read papers. Mostly they are history ones, though, and not complex chemistry!)
Ah, gotcha! That is something similar to how I do a complex test. I explore the system, then sort of take its temperature, writing everything down - not just the bits that look important, but ALL of it, because you never know what sort of weird emergent behavior a software system under stress will produce - and only when I'm satisfied I have a grasp of how it works do I start trying to make it misbehave.
...how do you make a purification standard when you by definition do not have something pure enough to standardize it with is a pretzel I had not previously considered.
this is just super-pure SiO2 glass with minimal impurities :)
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Date: 2019-10-25 06:02 pm (UTC)Ah, gotcha! That is something similar to how I do a complex test. I explore the system, then sort of take its temperature, writing everything down - not just the bits that look important, but ALL of it, because you never know what sort of weird emergent behavior a software system under stress will produce - and only when I'm satisfied I have a grasp of how it works do I start trying to make it misbehave.
...how do you make a purification standard when you by definition do not have something pure enough to standardize it with is a pretzel I had not previously considered.
this is just super-pure SiO2 glass with minimal impurities :)
That makes much more sense.