sci.chemist
English edit
Etymology edit
Blend of sci.chem + chemist. Equivalent to sci.chem + -ist.
Noun edit
sci.chemist (plural sci.chemists)
- (Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup sci.chem.
- 1989 September 26, JIM ORR, U. OF NEWFOUNDLAND, (709) 737-6635, “UV Spectra Database?”, in sci.chem[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-29:
- In our lab. we needed to know: what is a good water-soluble "small molecule" marker for size-exclusion peptide chromatography? We are monitoring UV at 280 nm. Nicotinamide came to mind, which led to the question: what is the absorbance of nicotinamide at 280 nm? This led to the question I really want to ask sci.chemists:
Is there some databank of UV (and other?) spectra accessible by email, perhaps even as a graph?
- 1996 April 24, Colin Douthwaite, “UVV and mentor info request”, in misc.fitness.weights[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-29:
- Although Robert Ames may have missed the postings you must certainly have seen at least seven RFD proponents, including Bobby Rivere, claim during the middle of 1995 that they were under the definite impression that the *.misc renaming had to be included in the RFD if the RFD was to be issued. There were some quite fierce exchanges over this and they occurred whilst the acrimonious sci.chem renaming debate was in progress when the sci.chemists were being told they would be pressurised to rename to *.misc until they complied.
( BTW the sci.chemists rejected the renaming.)
- 2006 October 2, reality...@gmail.com, “Curious if this poem(?) about chemicals is meaningful or gibberish”, in sci.chem[3] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-29:
- Hello sci.chemists...
I can't tell if the following is nonsense, or if it is meaningful. I know that there have been cases where information has been recast into a poem, such as the infamous DeCSS Haiku...but I haven't found anything suggesting what this chemistry-based poem is describing. Can anyone who knows more about the subject than I do tell me where this has come from or what it is saying?