User talk:Milton Beychok

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Milton Beychok

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 Where Milt lives it is approximately: 12:14

I just archived the last batch of postings

That is why this page looks rather empty at this moment. Milton Beychok 07:32, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Ideal gas law

First, I hope you liked your birthday presents!

Second, you might be amused at how convenient Ideal Gas Law has been at the moment. It's something that I hadn't used recently enough to remember that I knew it. I have a friend who has asked me to rig a carbon dioxide generator for a closed hydroponic greenhouse, and, for weird logistical reasons, can't use either a carbon dioxide cylinder or a propane-driven generator. So, I'm looking at a possible Rube Goldberg contraption derived from a hot chocolate dispenser, which meters calcium carbonate powder into acid. I can do the stoichiometry to know how many moles I get, but now I have to figure out how to convert moles generated into ppm in a specific volume at constant temperature. People are looking at me strangely as I walk around muttering pV = nRT. Howard C. Berkowitz 18:05, 4 January 2009 (UTC)

Milton, maybe you should move the approval date to later to give people a chance to read it. Feel free to change anything you want; after all I did that too. --Paul Wormer 17:07, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Paul, you are right. I will add a week to the date. Milton Beychok 17:47, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Milton do you know why Daniel is dragging his feet?--Paul Wormer 08:11, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Actually, if you look at the History pages for each of the subpages (Main Article, Related Links and Bibliography), he has added most, if not all, that he said was needed ... and I have added an External Links subpage which he also said was needed. I am waiting until tomorrow (Jan. 14) and then I will change my Approval Nomination version of the article to the latest version of the article ... and ask both you and Daniel to add your names to mine as nominators on the Metadata page. I think he will respond at that time. Milton Beychok 08:54, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

The topic is just too far off my current research focus to justify working on it while I'm in the lab. So I will need another weekend to finish this off. --Daniel Mietchen 09:33, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Hi, Daniel. Do you want me wait until after next weekend with updating the Approval nomination of Ideal gas law? I am quite willing to do so, if that is what you want. Milton Beychok 09:43, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

Raising inline TeX

Milton, I saw that you raised/lowered LaTeX, but see my comment here: http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,2470.0.html --Paul Wormer 08:00, 6 January 2009 (UTC)