part 2:

estimating solid surface energy:

Really cool simulator with a neat story about it on the burnt umber websight: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38515435

How bizarre! Me and a colleague ( who's still a good friend ) wrote this in like, 2012-2013! Well, more accurately we ported this from a older Delphi/Pascal program that was using raw OpenGL calls ( a legitimately very impressive bit of code for what it was written in ) into WebGL ( a relatively new piece of technology at the time )

The primary reason for porting this to a modern platform was ( as far as I understood ) so that it could be run on interactive events for schools and such. It's definitely more optimised for fun than realism. I remember a few good memories of various people who were actually nuclear engineers complaining that realistically the demand would never change that fast on any commercial nuclear power plant!

Really good pragmatic advise on managing risks, hazards, waste disposal as well as proper techniques when handling chemicals and reagents. YOU VILL WEAR YOUR PPE LAB GEAR AND YOU VILL BE HAPPY

For reference here's what they're supposed to look like:

They're like huge city-sized guns that shoot the tiniest objects known to man into one another to make them fricking explode and create even more small fricking particles that cascade into a shower of reactions and explosions!

This is the same mindset that made our ancestors bang rocks together until they made fire, it stimulates the same part of the brain and is fricking masculine as shit!

I wish WWIII started or some alien invasion happened so we could find an excuse to put these motherlovers on rails or mechs and fricking shoot them at stuff!