Chemists

... can self replicate and is generally thought to be made of organic materials. Using this principle, life is definable. I agree that physicists and chemists explain patterns and label them in a structured manner, but to say that something is something only means that something is defined to be understood ...

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... a result as life, though he has tried. It seems to me that if life was so possible to produce from molecules simply bonding together, then by now chemists should have produced at least a reproducing cell by now. Let alone many blind random mutations just so happening to produce a interdependent ...

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... and there's a lot that doesn't even make sense to the casual observer, but the theories we have fit the evidence better than anything else, so chemists go with it even though some parts of it seem downright weird. p-orbitals are a perfect example. The p-orbital exists in two lobes projecting ...

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yeah, gamila, i totally feel you. It's like that with a lot sciences. Chemists used to say that an atom is indivisible by definition. Then they said it's made up of protons, neutrons and electrons. Now they're like "well, actually they're made of quarks". ...

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... you need to remember that an oxidation reaction is always accompanied by a reduction reaction. But there is a difference between how general chemists and organic chemists use the term "oxidation". In organic chemistry, we talk about oxidation whenever a carbon containing compound ...

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