[skenasis]

Well, there's been no response so I'm gonna assume that the answer I gave was the one being asked for. So, next question:

Trisomy 21 is more commonly known as Down Syndrome. What are the common names of trisomies 13 and 18?

[Moogalite]

aye your answer was correct just my powerpack on my laptop is bust and i only really have enough power to check emails

[Goto]

Patau syndrome (13) and Edwards syndrome (18).

[skenasis]

Correct. I was originally going to ask about Angelman and Prader-Willi syndromes, but somehow I doubt most people even realise that there are actually maternal and paternal genes, let alone that inactivating or losing the wrong one is so incredibly detrimental (that said, I doubt most people have even heard of Angelman and Prader-Willi).

For those wondering, Angelman and Prader-Willi syndromes are both caused by mutation in chromosome 15. The difference is that Angelman is caused by the loss (or non-expression) of maternal (female line) genes, whereas Pader-Willi is caused by the loss/non-expression of paternal (male line) genes. Interesting, no?

Anyway, Goto's question next.

[Goto]

Gah, guess that means I have to ask one.

At the suggestion of a friend of mine, I think we'll have a little chem today. What's the molecular formula of caffeine?

Knowing Darkie she'll probably know it off the top of her head, hehe.

[Moogalite]

C₈H₁₀N₄O₂
I cheated im sorry. Will think of an answer later when i get back from uni

[skenasis]

Knowing Darkie she'll probably know it off the top of her head, hehe.

We did briefly look at its formula in chem, but that doesn't mean I know it off by heart

C8H10N4O2
I cheated im sorry. Will think of an answer later when i get back from uni

Cheaterer! What's the fun in looking up an answer without giving people a few days to have random (and often amusing) guesses at the answer first? I feel depraved of my chance to spout some random formula for something completely different

[Moogalite]

Sorry.
I will think of something on the same line then.
What is the generalised chemical formula of the human body?

[Zziggywolf5]

You and your chemistry questions!

[skenasis]

Erm...what? Never heard of anything like that. I'm going to assume that just means a list of elements that make up the human body. So, without knowing numbers and ignoring pollutants (ie heavy metals), I'll say...hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, sulphur and iron. Oh! And chlorine too.

So that would be H?O?C?N?P?Ca?Mg?Na?K?S?Fe?Cl?, where ? is the number for the empirical formula. There would be a LOT of hydrogen, oxygen and carbon, then nitrogen as the next most abundant. Probably calcium and phosphorus would then be the only other ones worth mentioning, as the others wouldn't be all that abundant.

[Moogalite]

I will let you have it as you named the main constituents and I didn't really use the right wording. I should of asked for an empirical formula the answer is H₁₅₇₅₀ N₃₁₀ O₆₅₀₀ C₂₂₅₀ Ca₆₃ P₄₈ K₁₅ S₁₅ Na₁₀ Cl₆ Mg₃ Fe₁
This then can be applied to a human body by its relative mass in comparison compared to the Mr/RMM of this formulae.

[Moogalite]

I will let you have it as you named the main constituents and I didn't really use the right wording. I should of asked for an empirical formula the answer is H₁₅₇₅₀ N₃₁₀ O₆₅₀₀ C₂₂₅₀ Ca₆₃ P₄₈ K₁₅ S₁₅ Na₁₀ Cl₆ Mg₃ Fe₁
This differs from the composition by mass which would be inaccurate due to the differences between gender and just in general.

[skenasis]

I see an accidental double-post. But honestly, where do you get these funky questions from? I've seriously never heard of anything like that, and it's certainly not something I would think a lot of people would know. Hell, even I had to take a guess at what the elements are! Then again, that may be because I always got the impression this is a 'no lookie up!' trivia. (no offense)

Okay, so, a question...

Taking a break from biology, this is more of a chem question. Ignoring the recently created 'superacids', what is the strongest acid known?

By 'strongest', I mean in terms of corrosiveness. Thus the answer is NOT sulphuric acid. Either a chemical formula or the name (or both) will do.

[Moogalite]

HF or Hydrofluoric acid.
Decalcifying and corrodes most elements except for chromium I think... just off top of my head.. melts glass as well so is used industrially to etch glass
Just had a lecture on acids and bases so kinda in my head
and if we were going by super acids SbF₅ + SO₃/HSO₃F

[skenasis]

Correct. As the 'etching glass' part tells us all, it's corrosive enough that it can't be stored in glass like most acids. It has to be stored in a special plastic.

Bring on the next question!