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Speaking for the chemical reaction - yes. That is exactly what should be possible. Some reactions are hard to reproduce and labs spend years trying to figure
by bbgm 11y ago
Speaking for the chemical reaction - yes. That is exactly what should be possible. Some reactions are hard to reproduce and labs spend years trying to figure out how to do so. Without that you really don't have good science.
The key is .. can someone read your paper and reproduce your experiment and the results. If not, it's not valid; it's just a paper.
- dalke 11y agoThat's not true. Some types of chemistry cannot (legally) be reproduced, but they are still good and valid science. For a trivial example, consider the many chemistry papers based on measuring fallout effects from nuclear testing. More prosaically, some things can be verified even when a chemical process cannot be reproduced. Protein crystallization is a tricky process with many irreducible results. Yet if you have a crystal, and can use the crystal to determine the protein structure, then you can verify that the crystal indeed contains that protein - even if you are unable to reproduce the chemical process used to create the crystal in the first place. Others can use the same sample to re-verify the resulting x-ray structure even though they also might be unable to reproduce the crystallization step.