If you’re in the habit of reading science blogs, you’ve probably already seen Mark Trodden’s article on the science of coffee, including a chemical analysis of the contents of espresso. You might be asking “Is there nothing these science types won’t analyze?”
Apparently not, as Dylan Stiles demonstrates. Now there is somebody who needs to get out of the lab for a while. Take a walk, read a book, just don’t take NMR spectra of anything for a few days.
Heh, that’s actually a nice piece of work. The TLCs were a nice touch.
When I was in grad school, the NMR room was one of the few rooms in the building that had air conditioning, so I was always looking for excuses to use the instrument.
Organiker Dylan Stiles is a hero! He doesn’t just talk the talk with a paper synthesis of doyermommamine. Stiles walks the walk: isolate goo from his bachelor ears, analyze it, confirm with analytical standards.
The August Physics Today demonstrates axions are undetectable. Does string theory postulate or ignore the Equivalence Principle? Poltroons! Organikers do it, then take an NMR. We aren’t too stinkin’ proud to have waste crocks. No fear!
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/lajos.htm
Physicists ignore the only empirical divergence of teleparallel vs. metric gravitation. A chemist will do it in scut hardware at 300,000 times the sensitivity of your most expensive apparatus, over two days of mostly doing nothing. “Do you feel lucky, punk? Well, do you?” “8^>)