"Jane MacRoss" <[email protected]> wrote: > >Thanks Mike - I remember hearing about this ages ago and wondering how it >worked! > >Jane
Thanks, Jane. That was thoughtful of you. Chemistry is so easy - at least the stuff we deal with. It is impossible to understand something unless you can view the equations and see how it works. I wish more people took an interest in doing this. You don't need a graduate level course - just learn how to balance equations. There are many good tutorials on the web. And the more you learn, the easier it becomes to learn more. So you have a nice feedback loop going. And there is so much satisfaction in being able to look at an equation and being able to read it, and understand what is going on. The reason it is so good to learn how to balance equations, is you have to go through all the things in your mind as you are reading an equation. Having to do all the individual steps forces your mind to pay attention to each one. When you are done, your mind says "Voila! That's how it works!" And now you have learned something new! And each one you do makes it easier to do the next one, so you quickly build up a large understanding of how things work. This makes it easy to learn more. I find if an author cannot write a balanced equation to describe what he is talking about, he usually gets it wrong. Without correct equations, it is so easy to make mistakes it's not even funny. But the equations force you to stay on the straight and narrow, and you are more likely to get it right. Thanks, Mike Monett -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Rules and Instructions: http://www.silverlist.org Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html Off-Topic discussions: <mailto:[email protected]> List Owner: Mike Devour <mailto:[email protected]>
