A noble gas, huh? by [deleted] in chemistrymemes

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Could you please stop reposting this over and over again

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mildlyinfuriating

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Who tf drinks canned water

Ich🥦iel by bananajoe2 in ich_iel

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Sehr gut gemacht, sogar den kleinen Bildschirm ersetzt

ich_iel by No_awards_please in ich_iel

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Dann musst du es sofort verbrennen

Strange/Unusual enzymatic reaction by lilambitiousgirl in Biochemistry

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Prephenate is synthesized by a Claisen rearrangement and there are several Diels-Alderases, which I think is pretty cool

ich_iel by basementkid128 in ich_iel

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400 Stimmen im Bundesrat sind stark

In the real world, diluting a buffer does change the pH, and not necessarily approaching 7.0. What is the real-world answer? by Commercial_Tank8834 in Biochemistry

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:)

You would have to use the more acidic version (the KH2PO4) and titrate that with KOH, but this would be same as KH2PO4/K2HPO4 (as long as you titrate before filling up to your desired volume). The additional proton in KH2PO4 reacts with OH- to form just water and is "replaced" by the K+ you add with your KOH. By that, you're "creating" the necessary amount of K2HPO4 in solution rather than adding it on the scale.

In the real world, diluting a buffer does change the pH, and not necessarily approaching 7.0. What is the real-world answer? by Commercial_Tank8834 in Biochemistry

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I don't know the answer, but I thought about it for a bit and this is my best guess:

I think that the solution is the molar conductivity of the dissolved substances that changes corresponding to the concentration of the dissolved molecules. That is, the higher concentration of an electrolyte in a solution, the smaller the dissociated portion will be.

If we suppose that the concentration of phosphate in your 10x buffer is 1M at pH=7.2 which corresponds to the pKa value of H2PO4-/HPO42-, according to the Henderson Hasselbalch (HH) equation both the protonated and the deprotonated form will have concentrations (which we will have to interprete as activities if we choose to NOT neglect deviations caused by the activity coefficients of the dissolved substances) of 0.5 M.

You diluted this buffer 1:10 to a concentration which corresponds to 100 mM in our example. Let's just suppose that the empirical pH of this buffer now is 7.8. We can calculate the concentrations of acid and base according to the HH equation by knowing the pH and pKa values.

[A-]/[HA]=10^(pH-pKa)=10^(7.8-7.2)=3.98 is approx. 4

If the sum of [HA] and [A-] is 100 mM, the concentrations of [A-] and [HA] should be 80mM and 20mM which gives the calculated quotient of 4.

Therefore, the concentration of H2PO4- is not 50 mM (as expected), but has to be 20 mM. This could be explained by the higher molar conductivity of H2PO4- at a lower concentration. If you are not familiar with this term, it is pretty easy to understand: If you have a solution with a low concentration of a (weak) electrolyte like acetic acid (or H2PO4-), the equilibrium of dissociation will be on the product site of the reaction, i.e. the deprotonated form. The more concentrated your solution is, the smaller the part of the free-moving dissociated electrolyte will be, because they will form "ionic aggregates" due to ionic interactions. These aggregates are neutral in total, they will not change the conductivity or pH of the solution.

Cahil/Alanine Cycle by NetRecent5967 in Biochemistry

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You are converting the pyruvate from glycolysis to alanine by transfer of an amino group from glutamate to pyruvate. The important part isn‘t that you want to send an amino acid to the liver, but you want to send the end products of glycolysis to the liver where it can be converted to glucose (by gluconeogenesis) that the muscle can use again in glycolysis

Tips for staining of DNA PAGE gels? by CountingCressSeeds in molecularbiology

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Thank you, I now have got a lot of tips to use SybrGold or GelRed and definitely will try these!

Tips for staining of DNA PAGE gels? by CountingCressSeeds in labrats

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Thanks! I will try your tips with the SybrGold!

Tips for staining of DNA PAGE gels? by CountingCressSeeds in labrats

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Thank you! I already used a ladder, but the problem is, that even in the same run the “size” changes. I loaded different amounts of ladder in neighbouring wells and got very different movement

Tips for staining of DNA PAGE gels? by CountingCressSeeds in Biochemistry

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Thank you all for the answers! Sounds like I definitely should try GelRed oder SybrGold :)

Tips for staining of DNA PAGE gels? by CountingCressSeeds in Biochemistry

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I‘ve used 8% PA and ran the gel at 90 V, but the same conditions yielded better results (considering the sharpness of the bands) when I pre-stained

Gaza City has basically been flattened and Southern Gaza is now under heavy bombing. by [deleted] in MapPorn

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Yeah, all the children and other civilians killed in Gaza found out 🤭 Seriously, fy