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So I'm going to be doing this series of posts on and off. The basic idea is that I'd like for brewers from any background to be able to understand what's going on with the chemistry behind the hobby we love. Basically everything that I had wished the Chemistry of Brewing class OU did online could have been, but approachable by anyone. So, we're starting really simple today with basic molecular components. That may be boring to some of you, but I think it's important to build up a good foundation and work up from there.
After a couple of these posts (or maybe even after this one), I'd like to do a couple of "Simple Science Study Halls" where I do Q&A from you guys and gals on the posted topic. I really want to help anyone who's interested in learning this stuff to be able to learn it.
Posted 34 days ago.
Edited 34 days ago by uberg33k
Fabulous post, man. Teach us!
Posted 34 days ago.
Woooooo! Adding to my reading list for the day!
Posted 34 days ago.
Before anyone else reading this post says it ... I know my site has some weird rendering issues on Macs/iOS. I'm working on it. If you can, use Chrome in the mean time.
Posted 34 days ago.
Nice work. Only issue I saw was that you highlighted the incorrect set of linkages on the ketone (it should be the carbon double bonded to and oxygen and single bonded to two R groups).
Posted 34 days ago.
You are correct and I struggled with that part a bit. You'll notice how the wording was a little squirrely, right? Basically, it's you're an aldehyde and here's how to tell or you're a ketone. I actually got to test some of the ideas you see in the post on 9 year olds. I figured if they got it, anyone should get it. The idea of 2 R groups caused them to glaze over a bit. They somewhat cleverly thought it was R=R and the groups should be the same. When I said no, that's not quite it, that seemed to be confusing. They also seemed to not be able to "see" the ketone group all that well. The most straight forward thing was the binary choice between aldehyde or not aldehyde. I thought for now that was good enough.
Posted 34 days ago.
Edited 34 days ago by uberg33k
Oh my. I typically read your blog but this might just be too heavy for sleep-deprived-new-dad.
Posted 34 days ago.
I like to think of myself as reasonably intelligent, but the OP is really good at making me feel dense.
Especially since he's intentionally dumbing down the material to appeal to the masses. :)
Posted 34 days ago.