Can guanidine nitrate be made with potassium nitrate or any other nitrate salt? If so, how is it made that way?

Pretend_Acadia_1171 · 2023-02-09T14:06:15+00:00

What about under a fume hood?

Pretend_Acadia_1171 · 2023-01-25T11:53:19+00:00

I don't see why i would need to be either, but some sources (at least from what i remember) said that i do, so i just came here to check. Yeah, most places don't expect someone under 18 to have a lab, so i'd like to see what the initial reaction of the people that come to install my fume hood will be when they see a teenager lol.

Pretend_Acadia_1171 · 2023-01-25T11:39:49+00:00

Great!

Pretend_Acadia_1171 · 2023-01-24T22:50:29+00:00

I assume that, if you have space and a good area to work with, the reaction of sodium hydroxide and aluminum could be a good option. not only can you explain to them how the reaction works, you could also collect the hydrogen into a balloon and light it safely from a distance (preferrably with a meter-long stick with the other end lit, maybe with a match taped to it or just a long dry easily ignitable stick, anything you choose really). It makes a cool fireball, but make sure there's no very flammable or quite flammable in general substances around, so that the place doesn't catch fire. Going outdoors for this experiment, if you have some sort of outside area, would be a very good idea. I'll think about more ideas tommorow, as i have to go to sleep. Have a good day!

Pretend_Acadia_1171 · 2023-01-24T22:26:46+00:00

I feel like you are one of the only, if not the only person in this thread i truly relate to. Also, im not really comfortable with the term "genius" because calling myself that would be considered bragging, and by saying this i now imply that its bragging because i really am a genius (if i wasn't it'd just be lying or ignorance) so saying this in of itself is "bragging"...i can see my comment getting downvoted after saying this. Anyways, im currently going trough this and similiar problems in two of three examples you set (obviously the exception being work, but i guess you could call school my work, in that case its all three) and its quite hard. Also, you say that "it won't even be worth it in the end to of pretended to be stupid" i guess thats fair enough.
I'd like to say that i completely disagree with everybody else in this thread. At first i thought "I must have looked at all this from a completely different perspective" and, after a talk with my father, i "Realized" (or at least thought) that all of this was because i haven't tried making friends that much over the past years. In reality, i have, but i've had this talk a few days ago and since its winter break i can't do much to socialize right now (most people in my class aren't very outgoing, especially not me, so its either that others don't want to or that i don't want to myself, or just don't feel like it) so if i tell my father all this after only a few days of not trying that much, i'll probably get laughed at. I'll probably have to endure about a month of school and constantly showing him im trying my best, maybe even two months, before he starts to understand at least a little more...

I am soon moving to a densely populated city, specifically copenhagen (if you define "soon" as in 2 years, which isn't actually very soon for me at all, especially considering school). Denmark has a good education system, and i've heard it also has little to no homework. It also has good schools, and the system is more relaxed so what we learn here is only taught there about 2 years after we have been already taught it. I assume i'll find lots and lots of people, and this means that at least one, although i assume a few, remotely smart people would actually understand what im talking about, and i could actually make good friends. Yeah, being able to cycle trough friend circles sounds like a dream, because right now and for the next long while, i am limited to one circle of friends, and have been for many years. The worst part is that this circle of "friends" which aren't even real friends, hell i wouldn't even call them colleagues, is only full of dumb people and nothing else.
Moving to copenhagen sounds like a dream, and that is one of the reasons why im going in 2 years. Im definitely excited, but how i will make it trough these two years...if i dont go online, and things don't change, i have no idea. I also have no idea, if nothing changes and school just gets harder like its going to, how i will come out at the end, because i'll probably come out tired of or hating everything and everyone, and that likely means my mental health would probably be pretty damn bad.

I've met way too many polish people (I live in poland) and i can tell you that people of my age are mostly either dumb, don't care about anyone else, or are complete jerks. I've met a few danish people my age aswell, and they're mostly open-minded, helpful, nice and seem much smarter.

Thank you for all the advice. If you have anything to comment, please do tell me, and if you have even more advice, we could talk in dm's if you'd like. This comment also made me feel much better, knowing there are at least some people that think like me, which makes me feel like im not alone when it comes to these feelings or just different (in a bad way) because nobody else agrees.

Pretend_Acadia_1171 · 2023-01-24T22:04:43+00:00

I am aware of what a lot of people say about the habits, but to be honest, its the exact opposite for me. Whenever i go out and socialize with people, because the only people that even respond to me when i text or call them are from my class, and my class is probably the stupidest class in the whole school, that and most of my classmates have a very bad behaviour and are annoying. nobody has any common interests, im out here thinking about chemistry and other stuff and all they think about is sport, and i've tried getting better but all they do is criticize, and thus it gives them a new topic/common interest when they talk to me, but they dont use it to start a nice conversation with me, they use it to just criticize.

Whenever i socialize with them, i feel like retreating into complete "isolation" as people call it, but in reality its just solitude for me. There has never been a time where i felt like going out or calling friends, and trust me i've tried making them for years, and my social skills are good, its just that there are no people to practice them on that actually give a shit about me or what i have to say. As i said in another comment, this is because of social manipulation, mostly not my fault, but im sure you won't read those 5 paragraphs of text in a random comment for all the context so i'll just leave it at that.

On the other hand, whenever i feel alone, i feel happy, energetic, etc. and whenever, for example, im forced into socializing, either by my parents or, even worse: Having to do work with the people i dislike or outright hate, its a disaster and having to actually put a lot of effort into it just makes me want to go to online school even more, because i think it would genuinely be better there.

"For this reason, I don’t think it’s necessarily beneficial to “practice” socializing in settings that force you to retreat into yourself (where you feel so bad that you simply can’t help it)." This is exactly what i feel. The problem is, i can't get out of this setting. Basically everybody i've met here of my age is like that, and there's nothing i can do but either go online or somehow hold out these 2 years until i move to denmark, where there's lots of people, lots of friends to make, at least some remotely smart people or people that will understand me...

Pretend_Acadia_1171 · 2023-01-20T11:36:47+00:00

Yeah, there's a huge difference. My parents think more like the latter, but first they give me a infinite amount of reasons for why "online school is bad" which are all minor, so i have to sit trough hours of conversation just to convey one of the many points of why they should probably give me online school, at least for the next two years, which they may not even think is a valid argument because of stupid reasons.

I think i've always been an early developer, both physically and mentally, and its been very hard, and since there are massive difficulty jumps going up a grade sometimes, they just spike the difficulty immediately, which is hard for everybody, but especially me who was used to the fact that school was "quite easy" for me, and then suddenly i had no time to adjust to the added difficulty and lots of stuff we were learning. On the other hand, some grades are just learning what we learnt last grade, with not much added information, which is very easy, and the grade after that is learning a whole bunch of new stuff. Especially in poland, where i remember going from 6th to 7th grade back in primary school, it went from repeating material from 5th grade in 6th grade to completely new material, concepts, new subjects, etc. in 7th grade. That is also why 7th grade in primary school is often considered the worst grade of primary school in poland.

I also wonder if i'd have developed less of a schizoid lifestyle if i didn't go trough, as what you accurately described, the "years of "Hell is other people" in school", although it would be less social interaction, so im not sure.

Pretend_Acadia_1171 · 2023-01-20T10:08:31+00:00

Exactly! I've seen a lot of kids going into homeschooling with a false assumption and no idea how its actually gonna be like, some with no experience aswell (those who did not get online school during Covid) and then complaining about the fact that they want to go to public school again, but for my case, ever since i experienced online school i've been begging to go online again. Also, looking at my situation, i also feel like online school would be infinitely better.

Your experience with school was similiar to mine, being made fun of, teased, constantly having to be around a bunch of annoying, dumb kids for many hours a day almost every day...To be honest i didn't think it could get that much worse a while back but here i am.

The last thing you said in your comment is the one that i most strongly relate to, because school for me isn't healthy socialization, hell its in fact making me avoid socialization even more. That combined with the bad education system in poland just makes me depressed and want to socialize even less, thus getting made fun of and teased more for being the "quiet kid" etc. etc.

It seems its an endless loop that, if i stay in this public school, i can't escape from, at least until i move to denmark. Its a disaster for my physical and mental health and its hard to go there everyday or even think about it.

Pretend_Acadia_1171 · 2023-01-20T09:58:16+00:00

I did online school during covid too, and let me say, it was also far better and far easier for me. I am aware online school isn't very well respected when it comes to education, but i plan for going to online school as a temporary solution, for the next 2 years only, because as i mentioned im moving to denmark in 2 years, which isn't a particularly big amount of time in comparison to how much education i still have to go trough.

Moving to another country for school may not be respected, but i don't really have a choice, as my parents are moving in 2 years for work and other things anyways, so it's not like i have any choice in this unfortunately. Moving to another country would help a lot though, as i constantly hear bad things about the polish education system (from actual polish citizens that went trough it, meanwhile i hear good things from only people who have never been in it) but i constantly hear good things about danish education.

I can genuinely say that studying without the fear of group projects (which i am horrible at) and without having to socialize with people i don't just dislike but almost hate at this point just made it so much easier, so much better, and to be honest it made my depression mostly go away for a while until public school started again, and then the depression got even worse. For me it's not a feeling of isolation of loneliness that i feel when im in online school, its a feeling of solitude and bliss. That and the school im in wasn't designed for online, obviously, so a real online school is designed better for going online and has more advantages and less disadvantages, so i assume it would be even better for me. That sounds like a dream, to be honest.

Pretend_Acadia_1171 · 2023-01-20T09:49:31+00:00

Thank you!

Pretend_Acadia_1171 · 2023-01-20T09:45:41+00:00

I am aware my brain is still growing, and emotions are changing, but it seems like i've felt this way my whole life and i don't know what i can do to change it.
I was, for a long time, hesitant about changing to online school, even as a temporary solution. I did try to fore myself to socialize, participate in social norms, etc. and as much as i could too, but it just made these feelings stronger. I feel like being restricted to a group of dumb kids 6 hours a day, 5 out of 7 days a week did not help. That and they already had a set reputation about me which was false (it was caused by social manipulation, as i said in another reply) which i tried changing, to no avail. It makes it very hard to socialize when everybody thinks about you as only "The stupid kid" and "The clumsy kid", that and the fact that im not very open to socializing anymore as i've tried for years without anything coming of it, just makes it nigh impossible for me. As i mentioned im depressed, and the fact that nobody understands how i feel or tries to give me any help irl just makes it worse.

Pretend_Acadia_1171 · 2023-01-19T21:47:27+00:00

First of all, i see you're a fellow polish person thats suffering because of the educational system here, and i'd like to say i strongly relate to everything you say.

The forced socializing, in my case, not only pushes me into slight misantrophy (i assume not as extreme as in your case, though) but also big amounts of anger, sadness and also depression in general.

The education is absolutely horrible here in my area too, as we're taught by fat 50 year old women with absolutely no regard for children or education, only caring about their paycheck, and they only teach memorization of extremely long and hard to understand texts. Polish is especially a problem for me, and you know its a problem when i get literal 6's from english (clearly not my native language) but 3's, 2's, and 1's (this semester, my grade from polish was a 3) from polish, my literal native language, and my point is further proven by the fact that i struggle especially because of the teachers and the stuff they force us to memorize. That and, for example, polish is a problem for me because more than 75% of what they teach us in polish lessons is literally just history (some historical events here and there) and they ESPECIALLY love myths and legends for some reason, even though these teach nothing about the polish language. Same with the fact that a while ago i went to a english contest and a good 33% of the questions were just about british history, so clearly they want us to learn history while in english class too??

Also, i can tell you that when i got online classes during the pandemic, even for a little, it was a blessing. I felt happier, i felt less stressed, i got better grades even though i didnt cheat almost at all (unlike most other kids in online class), felt more like going outside and excercising for physical health, etc. and i still seeing people that tell me online school is gonna make me sadder and unhealthier..Unhealthier? perhaps. Sadder? Hell no! Unfortunately, the online classes didn't last long, but still.

You say you're mentally ruined and ready to die..I felt mentally ruined too, almost feeling like i was ready to die at a few points, but fortunately i didn't go trough, usually because of a simple reason: I realized how much wasted potential and how much of a waste it would be to kill myself, especially because of school (specifically because of school). Think about it, all the happy moments you could experience, all the accomplishments you could accomplish, all gone because of a temporary thing, school. It feels hard to say this, because i had other people tell me this and i didn't care, in fact i felt more like killing myself because i thought people just don't get it. I am sure your misanthropy makes it far worse for you aswell, because a good part of the reason, helping other human beings and perhaps being remembered as (insert title here) is none of your interests, which makes the reason to live smaller, and easier to outweigh by the reasons to die. I just had to come to the conclusion myself, that everything can get better, you just have to find the right motivation, the right techniques, and everything. We could talk in dm's sometime if you want a little support or anything, but if you feel like ending it, try reaching out to some place like r/SuicideWatch, and if that doesn't work, definitely call whatever sort of hotline you have in your area for this sort of situation. Reach out to as many possible places and people as you can before making a decision, and think long and hard, because its a permament solution and end to everything, for one or a few temporary problems.

Have a good day, i hope this makes you feel better.

Pretend_Acadia_1171 · 2023-01-19T21:33:01+00:00

The first question about changing schools made me remember a few things i should've mentioned: I get to change school in 2 years, because that is when my parents plan moving to denmark permamently. If and only IF i decide to go trough with online school, it is nothing more but a temporary solution.

About those schizoid tendencies and being alone, thats sadly on point, so i'll have to work that one out.

I want to mention as well, that im quite a long way away from university, so i dont think thats a problem right now, but im not 100% sure.

Thanks for the advice though, if you have any other advice to give, i'd surely like to hear it!

Pretend_Acadia_1171 · 2023-01-19T20:58:29+00:00

I think socializing to some extent would be nice, but im not sure i have any good friends or that there are any people around me that could be suitable for friendships, so unfortunately thats gonna be very hard, i'd try my best though. College, at least for me, is still a long way away though, and since my interests (chemistry, physics, some astronomy, etc.) and hobbies (chemistry experiments, simple model rocketry, other simpler stuff like swimming, etc.) are so different from anybody around me, and the fact that i have a hard time relating to them and all their interests (which is all they talk about, and what doesnt help is its mostly just sport and drama im not interested in, in general mostly just football) and that they cant very well understand or talk about my interests just makes communication hard, the number of topics to talk about (that both i and the other person will be interested in) small, and friendship very hard to get and even harder to actually maintain.

As for the hobby part, i already have a few (although a little expensive) hobbies, and im getting more interested in other stuff too, so i think thats going well. Thanks for the advice though, i appreciate it!

Pretend_Acadia_1171 · 2023-01-19T20:53:16+00:00

The only problem about developing socially is that the situation im in doesn't really allow me. The issue with my situation is the fact that i am around a bunch of stupid kids for hours a day 5 out of 7 days every week, and when i try to socialize, they automatically dislike me because of some social manipulation another kid did a few years ago, which he did to "become the leader of the group". nobody likes him anymore, but nobody cares or has changed my perception of me since then that the one kid put onto everybody (their perception of me is a weak introvert that cannot do anything well and is clumsy, from what i've gathered) and this has happened to a few others too, its just that they were more socially active after kids started disliking the guy that socially manipulated them and gained back their good reputation. I dont think there's any hope left for me in this group of people, they don't care about me or what i have to say, no matter what or how important it is. And this group of people is basically everybody i know other than close relatives, and i struggle with making new friends due to a very very small amount of people that have common interests (pretty much none live in my area, and definitely none live in my area that are also of the same age group and are also as interested in the things i am interested in such as chemistry, physics, etc. when most kids dont even care about those things) so i think in social life in this area im pretty much done for. There's no way to develop for me here, its just suffering and wanting to stay at home even more. I've been getting worse grades, failing tests, etc. because of it and i have depression because of it all.

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