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Good site addition
« on: March 08, 2010, 08:47:00 PM »
hxxp://www.sigmaaldrich.com/chemistry/solvents/learning-center/nomograph.html

Could someone steal this applet and put it here? Perhaps put a wasp on it?

I don't like using sigma's site and it's slow as shit.

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Re: Good site addition
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2010, 09:53:50 PM »
There are a few data file addresses hard coded into the program, and it doesn't work quite right without them.

Shouldn't be too hard to fix.  I'll see what I can do with it tonight.

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Re: Good site addition
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2010, 08:01:48 AM »
This is completely portable now.  The only links back to Sigma are if you want to look up any of the listed solvents in their catalog.

I wanted to replace the mini picture of the nomograph with a wasp, but my flash decompiler doesn't have a resource editor and it's too much of a pain in the ass to do manually.

These files all need to be hosted in the same directory somewhere and the filenames for the text files left as-is, and the html edited however you want.

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Re: Good site addition
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2010, 10:12:45 AM »
Thank you timecube!  :)

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Re: Good site addition
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2010, 01:04:46 PM »
Super cool! Timecube, you rock!

EDIT-> I think this work of timecube should be stickied here somewhere so it doesn't disappear. I think we should add this to the Rhodium nomograph page hosted here. Timecube, are you sure you can't put a wasp and a "stolen from sigma by timecube" on there? ;)
« Last Edit: March 09, 2010, 06:06:14 PM by disposable stirbar »

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Re: Good site addition
« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2010, 10:55:31 PM »
Thank you very much Timcube, for the time being it can be found here;

http://127.0.0.1/Naf1/tim3/nomograph.html
« Last Edit: March 09, 2010, 10:58:11 PM by Naf1 »

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Re: Good site addition
« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2010, 06:35:46 AM »
ok so it looks amatuer but hey, it's better than the sigma logo  ;D

someone check and make sure everything else still works

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Re: Good site addition
« Reply #7 on: April 04, 2010, 08:41:31 AM »
timecube, you did great.

NeilPatrickHarris, you did great.

Problem is Sigma sucks at making apps with full functionality. My original enthusiasm is quickly fading with continued exposure to its wankyness.

Try setting the same temp and corrected temp. Not 760mm pressure? Why not?

Try setting a vac, then setting an observed temp. Your pressure number change? Why can't it figure accurately for any variable?
200 observed set, 200 corrected set, gives 700? set that and it gives an observed of 200.1?
The same trick with 100 gives 99.4?

I am now sorry I recommended this. It seemed as accurate as the straight edge when doing mine and some of the numbers from Rhod's archive for a test against "knowns" and their variation from the numbers the nomograph gives. Now I thought this thing was doing some sort of math... WTF is it doing? Is there an acceptable range of values? One would think good programming would make all out of range things give out of range, not mixed errors and occasional out of range messages(N/A on this POS). Is there an easy way to look at what it is doing and guess at a more accurate range for the thing?

Perhaps I am being overly critical, but shouldn't this POS work like it should?

Why would the brains at Sigma allow for a COMPUTERIZED version of a graphical analog computational device to not use computation? Isn't computation and porn the only two things these devices are really made for, anyway? Seriously, WTF?

Whatever, it works good enough for Sigma's corporate site.