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How to master chemistry?
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How to master chemistry?

I find physics easy but chem is just impossible. How do you learn chemistry? If anyone's good at chemistry, please tell me how you mastered it.
02-03-2009 09:36 PM
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Re: How to master chemistry?

I'm no master at all, but I can help you with it. There are several different parts in Chemistry. Which part do you need help with? The Periodic Table? Ionic & Molecular compounds? Chemical balancing?

I can barely even remember anything I learned last semester in science, but I'll try my best to help you with what I can.
02-04-2009 01:30 AM
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memorize. thats about it. or blow shit up.

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02-04-2009 07:25 AM
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OMG *pokes username*
It was hell last year. I still passed with a C- from cheating all the frickin time.
I dunno, maybe it was just the way my teacher taught (that ugly whore).

You got a periodic table?
02-04-2009 07:46 AM
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wow, that's my exact opposite. I kicked ass in chem but my physics grade sunk wayyyyy down.

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02-04-2009 08:17 AM
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i hated chemistry. but it was a great class to sleep in

life is just blah blah blah. we hope for blah, and sometimes we find it. but mostly its blah. and waiting for blah. and hoping you were right about the blahs you made. and when you think you just got the whole blah damn thing figured out, and your surrounded by the ones you blah. death shows up and blah blah blah.
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02-04-2009 08:34 AM
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I'm having a massive problem with chemistry too. I don't know how I managed to pull off a B in the thing last semester. I must be a good guesser or something.

I'll try and help you the best I can, but I'll be paying attention to this thread to try and learn something. I'm suffering.

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Cryme Wrote:I'm no master at all, but I can help you with it. There are several different parts in Chemistry. Which part do you need help with? The Periodic Table? Ionic & Molecular compounds? Chemical balancing?

Even harder. We did some organic chemistry(polymers, monomers...) and alcohols. Also some electrochemistry.

I'm so lost I actually don't even know what we're doing now.
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I really wish I could help you guys out. I gave up the last two quarters.

I remember that a proton and an electron cancel out. Something about radioactive decay and how it compounds exponentially. (at least I think)

And how different shapes give off different smells. Fishy,Sweet, Mint, Putrid,

Chemical Balancing I never understood.

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the only thing i remember was him telling us how to make bombs literally but mostly stuff like a dry ice bomb.

life is just blah blah blah. we hope for blah, and sometimes we find it. but mostly its blah. and waiting for blah. and hoping you were right about the blahs you made. and when you think you just got the whole blah damn thing figured out, and your surrounded by the ones you blah. death shows up and blah blah blah.
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LET'S ASK CHEMISTRY HATER

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lol think she already posted tho

life is just blah blah blah. we hope for blah, and sometimes we find it. but mostly its blah. and waiting for blah. and hoping you were right about the blahs you made. and when you think you just got the whole blah damn thing figured out, and your surrounded by the ones you blah. death shows up and blah blah blah.
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02-04-2009 11:57 AM
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youvebeenthunderstruck Wrote:LET'S ASK CHEMISTRY HATER

lol
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~

What made me really hate it though, was I took AP Chemistry first, and there were some geniuses in that class. I felt so fucking dumb I don't even know how I got in.
hahaha

I never understood why people have to take chemistry in high school.
It's VERY useless. Why do I care about fizzing sodas?
02-04-2009 12:29 PM
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