Posts Tagged ‘harebrained schemes’

I’m super excited to announce I’ve launched a Citizen Science project to learn more about the animal enemies of mushrooms in the genus Amanita, especially my study species Amanita phalloides. You can enter data for the project on iNaturalist, here. If the word limit there leaves you yearning for more background on why we launched the […]

Heavy Metal Music Chelator

Posted: 13th September 2014 by Metal Chick in Project Ideas
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I want a Heavy Metal Music Chelator to exist. From Wikipedia: “The chelate effect describes the enhanced affinity of chelating ligands for a metal ion compared to the affinity of a collection of similar nonchelating (monodentate) ligands for the same metal.” In other words, chelators bond to the metal atoms in various compounds and keep […]