Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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A clarification regarding the rejection of my recent edit
I apologize beforehand if this seems inappropriate, especially coming from a new user.
Please view this link before I proceed: molecular orbital theory explaining molecular orbitals
[P.S. : I've kept ...
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Is the chat room bot alive?
In the Main Chatroom Guidelines page it mentions a "ChemBot" which allows users to give various commands in chat. Is it still working? If not, can it be fixed?
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What is wrong about my answer?
I have a question about my Chemistry Stack Exchange post: When we name an organic compound ,if there is double bond and a functional group which is now a substituent who has priority?
I do not ...
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Reviewers changing the original question
Even I had this question in my mind., while searching I found out that someone has already asked, it has got 11k views but no proper answer yet, so I decided to improve the question and add my points ...
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Why is rendering of this pu markup weird?
$\pu{1.083780 mol}$ renders as $\pu{1.083780 mol}$
I think mhchem renders \pu.
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Is there a way to use the markup to put an image into a cell of a table?
LOL - Maybe I should be more specific and ask for an easy way. I've got a feeling that the way that it can be done will be nasty.
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Need help to change a tag's spelling & questions about tags and formatting
I was trying to answer a question on the Van der Waals equation so I decided to look through the past questions to see what had already been answered. In searching for "Van der Waals" I got numerous "...
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Fallacy in my argument, reason for getting question closed? How to improve my (another) question? Why did I get half the bounty amount?
I recently added an answer to Why is [Ni(en)3]2+ paramagnetic?
Atomic number of Ni is 28, $\ce{Ni^{2+}}$ has configuration $\mathrm{[Ar]3d^8}$. It can not form lower spin octahedral complex due to ...
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Significance of the figure above number of votes casted
Under sub-heading voters (under users heading), there's one figure (104), in my case, above number of votes casted. What's the significance of this number?
Sorry for my poor paraphrasing of sentence, ...
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How to do nested numbered lists?
How do I create nested numbered lists? I want something that looks sort of like:
yada yada for item 1
yada yada for item 2
a. yada yada for item 2a
b. yada yada for item ...
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User Profile picture doesn't appear
My Chem SE account is registered through my Google account. So obviously my Google profile picture was the one set for my Chem SE account as well. Few months earlier I had changed my Google profile ...
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Is there a private chat?
Does this site have any kind of private message system?
Just to be clear I'm trying to find a way to talk to someone on the staff in private. I'm here on business, not trying to get a Chemistry ...
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Where can I find a more extensive reference for mhchem?
I'm still new to this stack community and getting used with the formatting. I've read the article about this matter and while it explains that mhchem is supported and shows examples but only offer ...
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How are views counted?
There are questions viewed thousands times in a relative short time. Is that because the view counting system consider also external users views? Therefore also views from people searching the net who ...
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Pings disappearing in certain browsers?
Not sure if anyone else runs into this, but I occasionally am unable to ping people in comments if I use the mobile app or Safari. When I include @username at the ...