r/chemistry • • 5h ago

How I did Molecular dynamics on a peptide with my own code

Thumbnail
youtu.be
3 Upvotes

New video showing more in depth how the Julia Molecular Dynamics code works, and the different tools in the program I made. Also there is a link to GitHub if someone wants to download the program


r/chemistry • • 6h ago

Does anybody know an actual big chemistry/alchemy game on steam?

0 Upvotes

Ive been looking for one for a while now since i got bored of Noita. i have tried factorio, spacechem, opus magnum, sokobond and ect. but i dont like any of those any suggestions?


r/chemistry • • 38m ago

I don't understand my honors chemistry work

• Upvotes

Hey! So, I'm a sophomore in honors chemistry, and the unit we're on is like avogadros number and unit conversions, and so far, the basic unit conversions are pretty light like the 1ft = 12 inches, but when we start doing the hard stuff I genuinely do not understand. I like to think I'm a good student, I study, take good notes and usually get an A on assignments, but when exams start I choke and don't know what to do. Can anyone explain how to do these conversions?


r/chemistry • • 21h ago

Can I use the HCl leftover from gold precipitation to precipitate silver?

0 Upvotes

I have 2gal of Gold Chloride 0.2% solution (HAuCl4), 1Kg of sodium metabisulfate, and 2kg of silver nitrate solids leftover from a lab that I would like to turn it to some small coins/discs. Will the resulting acid be pure enough or will sodium byproducts mess up the silver precipitation?


r/chemistry • • 13h ago

Converting rubber contraceptive to liquid form

0 Upvotes

Is there a possibility of converting rubber contraceptives to liquid form so that it can be mixed with a resin to create a slab? Is it possible to do that without destroying much of the elastic properties/characteristics? Thanks in advance EDIT: I think there is notion for the relevance that is missing from the question I was trying to recycle some waste latex to some energy absorbing panels My initial methodology was to cryogenic grind to powder but I don't have access to those facilities locally.


r/chemistry • • 15h ago

Amorphous intermediates and discovery of a kinetic polymorph of BiVO4 from heating V+Bi+Zn single-source precursors

5 Upvotes

Open-access paper in Nature Communications, published 30 April 2026: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71702-7

The researchers followed the thermal decomposition of polyoxovanadate single-source precursors using solid-state NMR, pair-distribution function analysis and in-situ X-ray diffraction. They identified amorphous intermediates and a previously unknown, kinetically stabilised polymorph, β-BiVO4, alongside temperature-dependent incorporation of zinc dopants. The paper also examines amorphous mixed-valence vanadium oxides as lithium-ion battery electrodes.

The chemistry relevance is the molecule-to-solid transformation: intermediate phases can offer structures and properties that are missed when synthesis is assessed only by its final crystalline product. This is an April paper receiving renewed coverage this month; the work does not demonstrate a finished commercial battery or solar-fuel device.


r/chemistry • • 8h ago

Aircraft exhaust particles may become more harmful over time

Thumbnail
thebrighterside.news
18 Upvotes

Exhaust does not stop changing when it leaves an engine. Reactions in the atmosphere can produce new particles and alter the chemistry of existing ones. In laboratory experiments, aircraft-combustor emissions became substantially more reactive as researchers simulated days of exposure to atmospheric oxidants.

Their oxidative potential per unit particle mass increased six- to sevenfold after aging equivalent to approximately 12 days. Emissions from a marine diesel engine showed a different pattern in the same chemical test. The contrast suggests that freshly emitted exhaust alone cannot describe how particle reactivity develops in the air.

The study, published in Environmental Science Atmospheres, was led by Markus Kalberer’s group at the University of Basel. Alexandre Barth and Battist Utinger were its two first authors. The work examined chemical indicators associated with potential harm, rather than measuring disease or demonstrating a corresponding increase in human toxicity.


r/chemistry • • 10h ago

How is that possible, rocket propellent?

1 Upvotes

How the ALICE rocket propellent is possible to propell a rocket. In a sport or a hobby called high power rocketery? Usally propellent are made from Ammonium perchlorate/ alluminium or pottasium nitrate and sugar? How just water/ ice and aluminium powder is actually a powerful propellent in hobby grade amature rockertry!!!! What is the chemistry behind it? Ice/water is a powerful oxzider!!! What other fuel other than aluminum can be used?


r/chemistry • • 4h ago

Real or Fake mercury bottle?

Thumbnail
gallery
89 Upvotes

Found at an antique store in California, the lady told me it was empty. I went home and checked (with gloves but then got paranoid so now it’s double bagged)

Edit: okay so the lady in the store opened it and looked inside with her flashlight and said it was empty.


r/chemistry • • 28m ago

Chemistry At Home

• Upvotes

Hello!

I live quite far away from Universities, without any transportation to get there. Seeing this, I switched to an online degree of CIS, but I am taking a home-kit of Chemistry I and the rest is theory.

I want to do hands-on labs pretty badly besides the kit, but I am very far from a University without ways to get there. (I cannot drive due to a disability) So, I am taking it online.

I still have a great interest in chemistry, and want to learn it still. Is there any way I can buy my own lab equipment and safely do hands on reactions for Chemistry II, Organic Chemistry I and II, and Biochemistry at home? I want to still have that hands-on science feel.

Thank you!


r/chemistry • • 6h ago

Is cheminformatics really chemistry subject

Thumbnail
0 Upvotes

r/chemistry • • 12h ago

Is it weird/frowned upon for a chemistry student in uni to be interested in amateur chemistry as a process? (NOT in practice)

32 Upvotes

I was talking to a classmate about something I read online regarding as far as I can remember salicylic acid from aspirin? I found that super interesting! I love reading about stuff like that, not in terms of doing it, it is obviously unsafe and et cetera but, the little workarounds and methods interest me because its something I have an actual frame of reference for, which I don’t for like normal synthesis using typical laboratory equipment and complex organic chemistry methods (1st year lol)

I should reiterate that I understand that this is bad and dangerous and it’s only an interest in the same vein as like watching a murder documentary or something.

but they acted like it was strange for me to be intrigued by it, and that “the only chemistry work I’m interested in is during our labs” and I don’t know, it came off as very uncurious to me, and so my question is,

Is it frowned upon to be interested by this? (as a CONCEPT), or is it like someone studying forensic science being very interested in how to get away with murder? Is this something that could cause me trouble? (I don’t see why it would)

thanks!


r/chemistry • • 11h ago

If you were placed into 1500’s middle age England, could you make a living/gain power with your chemistry knowledge?

82 Upvotes

assuming the language barrier doesn’t exist, I think my first move would be to write down literally everything I know about chemistry incase I forget it.

Maybe you could impress a lord to gain favour or something like that…


r/chemistry • • 11h ago

Black sodium flame

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

383 Upvotes

Methanol flame with Na+ ions turns almost black when irradiated with a low pressure sodium lamp, the sodium ions in the flame absorb the same wavelengths emitted by the lamp.


r/chemistry • • 1h ago

A hammered-finish pure Rhenium (Element 75) ring I made and mirror-polished

Thumbnail
gallery
• Upvotes

Hello,I'm Captain Iridium, first-time poster here!

I have loved corrosion-resistant metals for 34 years and have been handcrafting rings from pure refractory metals (Ir, Ru, Rh, Re, Ta, Nb, Hf, Zr, etc.) since 2010.

This is a ring I made from pure Rhenium.
Rhenium is very difficult to work with and polish.I have spent 16 years improving my hand-polishing skills for rare metals. It was a big challenge to polish each small hammered mark into a true mirror shine, with zero coating or plating.

Among all the metals in the periodic table, Rhenium is my 4th favorite metal—right after Iridium, Rhodium, and Tantalum. At room temperature, Rhenium in compact (solid) form hardly reacts with air or water, and it can resist hydrochloric acid and dilute sulfuric acid under normal conditions. Some articles say that Rhenium can even withstand aqua regia, but that is completely wrong! (In fact, Rhenium dissolves easily in nitric acid and aqua regia.) The reason for this myth is that a book named Corrosion Guide misspelled "Rhodium" as "Rhenium". Many later books and articles blindly cited that chapter, spreading such a big mistake!😁😁😁


r/chemistry • • 15h ago

Since the chill drawing tools I used all got shut down, what are some good and free chemical drawing tools?

6 Upvotes

I was using marvin sketch, but the free version of that got shut down, moved to chemsketch but very much disliked that. Now I found marvin js but that one also got shut down (at least it's getting shut down end of next year, but I can't access it anymore anyway) and now they also want me to pay.

I'm a 3rd year organic bachelor student and my school doesn't provide a software, but does want me to use one. So what are some free drawing tools ya'll use?

It'd be much appreciated!