Sunday, June 23, 2019

Suspension of Disbelief, x2

1) Now I have a migraine. Doubting the herbs' preventive properties and attributing it to the steroid taper. Bah.

2) Today I was reading a book featuring interdimensional  travel, magic, and aliens.... when someone sprayed a silver chloride solution.

***screech****

I mean, look, make up a universe with totally different rules, but if you're going to change fundamental chemical principles.... that's gotta be on purpose!

(Silver chloride is almost completely insoluble in water.)

3 comments:

  1. Perhaps it wasn't an aqueous solution. I do understand your concern, fictional universe rules are one thing, messing with scientific principles are something else entirely.

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    1. It's not soluble in organics either! It's a lattice property that makes it stick together too strongly to dissolve except in, like, nitric. But I expect the author just didn't think about it. NaCl is soluble after all...

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    2. Authors are not generally known to be chemistry experts!

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