Official Chemistry Thread (Cogwerks)

[RedbeardRum]

Eh, fine, since you guys apparently don't like my idea of making farts more useful, here're some less farty ideas:

• Have some chemicals which release a particular type of gas. Could be helpful for restoring oxygen to a room that was previously open to space. I'm assuming this'd be an on-mixture thing, unless they were made with that stablizer, in which case, they'd probably be activated by being heated, or more interestingly, upon being uh, splashed/sprayed, meaning you could make oxygen-spray, which would be.. uh, interesting, I guess. The engineers might like it. I'm also assuming that it wouldn't be particularly potent - it'd be bad if a scientist could go around the station filling it with huge amounts of plasma (without dragging a canister around, that is). When I was imagining the spray, I imagined the engineer spraying it for a minute or so to get it back to normal levels. Though if it was both smokeable and sprayable, maybe the smoke'd be more potent?
  
• If inaprovaline & dylovene were brewable in chemistry, that'd make a lot of the beneficial things easier, and wouldn't force the scientists to burn their way into medbay every round. Alternatively, in the new map, if there is going to be one at any point, perhaps if botany/chemistry/medbay were close together, so that the botanists would consider growing shit for them?
  
• The ability to line disposal pipes, units, and closets with chemicals, transfering small amounts of the chemicals to people who're inside of them/traveling through them.
  
• A personal request - more annoyingly complicated recipes like Grog. It's always fun spending days trying to figure them out! With a couple of hints, though. eg. A chemical, that when combined with working stable mutagen, would guarantee superpowers if the SE being transferred to the person has any superpower blocks activated.

On the topic of spraying, as far as I am aware, you can't really spray any beneficial chemicals on anyone, so they're limited to hurting & annoying people. I'm sure people would go out of their ways to make 'healing sprays', rather than 'death sprays', if they could. I used to, anyway.

Also: If electricians could build shower heads, I'm sure that would aid chemists.