Chemistryblog

  It's hard for me to find a funny picture of myself, it's hard for me to take pictures, I don't take them often and I'm not an expert in taking selfies, I've spent several days looking for my GPOY, here it is:  This photo represents the origin of one of my most peculiar nicknames: "VIII" or "8-A" (to write it in a faster way), to tell you why, I must introduce you a little in the world of chemistry,  Xenon (Xe) in a group VIII A molecule, in the periodic table of chemical compounds, Xenon in a molecule of group VIII A, if you look for it in the periodic table, it is in the last column (left to right), this column groups the noble gases, therefore, Xenon is a noble gas. The group VIII A (noble gases) are directly characterized by being atoms that cost to make them react to form a compound, that's why those compounds are usually "lonely", that is, you catch those atoms without their partner. I feel like a noble gas because as much as...

 Hello, we come to a topic that is very uncertain in the future, I know what I want, I chose the career, but projecting myself into many years is something that I do not give, I may find the plan so much or I will find a much better path.  To introduce you to the subject, first I tell you a little about my past, just when I was choosing a career, in the first instance, I wondered how uncertain my future work is (I don't remember if I ever told you that I wanted to be a dentist since child, but saturation at the national level and the high cost stopped me, making it almost unfeasible to pay for a postgraduate degree so as not to be bankrupt, due to the admission score I could only study at other universities that were not the UCh, with a worse job projection and negatively affecting the possibility of studying a postgraduate degree), those thoughts did not leave me calm, but as I informed myself through various means I changed my uncertain position, uncertainty no longer tormen...

Hello everyone, I have been too busy, now I will tell you a little about future work when I graduate, I would like to have a job that allows me to experiment, be independent, using the knowledge of chemistry, in other words, I would like to be a researcher or work in the laboratory, apart from spreading knowledge.  Generally it is an indoor job, a researcher has his space, with his instruments, where you can work both alone and in a group.  I am not very informed about the salary, I have not been able to keep up to date, although statistically they say that the salaries of chemists are increasing (a few months ago I compared the salaries of 2019 to the beginning of 2021), I think that with the passage of time the salary will still vary (I did not choose the career for the salary, because), apart, I would have to see the panorama in the other countries, but that is another story, anyway, I think that the salary depends a lot on the area in which that I carry out, for example, t...

A food that I like is burritos, the burrito is a type of Mexican food, it consists of assembling it with different ingredients to taste and then roll them in a tortilla and eat them, sounds simple, although it is not so well. How to made? To make burritos, first mix add peppers, tomatoes, lettuce, corn, carrot, meats (if you are not vegan or vegetarian), sauces, in other words, whatever you want, do not forget to heat the tortillas a little. While it’s hard for me to define what my favorite food is (because it is not the only one that I really like), I love the burrito stands out because of its versatility, it’s easy to prepare, you have a lot of combinations you can make, if you don’t like the way it turned out, you can change the ingredients and you can always create other flavors. Roll the tortillas well to avoid food falls. Depending on how you prepare it, it can be a healthy option or not so much, so be careful with the ingredients so that the burrito does not have too many calor...

  From cringe no one can be saved, there are several examples, such as unintentionally saying a rude thing, unintentionally playing uncomfortable audio and being heard by the whole environment (it happened to a teacher) or when the teacher of chemical laboratory techniques says "do not pipette with the mouth" during the cathedra and then in the laboratory, he’s giving us a mouth-piped demonstration for not having a propipette.  If there is a shameful moment that a couple of times has happened to me, is to delay the entire course during an outing, one of them was when I was 14, we had to go out to an art exhibition, Van Gogh Alive, located in a small tent in Espacio Riesco (Huechuraba), this exhibition was special because apart from showing a good collection of their works of art, they brought them to life, it is like transforming to video their paintings, projected to all the walls of the tent, making the small place very immersive, taking advantage of all the darkn...

 If there is a good holiday period, it is when I make a long trip, full of tours and call me several days. One of those is during the study tour I had in the middle 4th, during a week we toured the south of Chile (port Varas, port Montt and Valdivia) and Bariloche. We were able to appreciate the nature of the Petrohué Falls, Lake Puyehue, the mountain range, even if it was without snow because we toured during the summer. It was good times, it was shared with the course, we climbed hills, mountains, sometimes, we joked to the other companions, we were awake late at night and we talked with the internal numbers of the hotel and we played bowling, paintball,  we also toured an ATV circuit,  we went up in the chairlift  in Cerro Viejo to descend on a giant slide a nd the last day we were in Bariloche we had a pool party, one of the best activities we have ever done . .   Nobody had a bad time, the sad thing was the last day, we toured Valdivia and we got on a catam...