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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.

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How should we approach questions asking for chemical hygiene or safety/medical advice?

Is the smell coming out from a portable dehumidifier safe? and to a lesser extent Blue Silica Gel more harmful than the orange ones? are two recent questions that ask for advice on the toxicity (or …
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Should "Chemical Request" questions be on topic here?

Not to pick on anyone in particular, but the question https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/5494/heaviest-non-hazardous-liquid-and-cheap-on-hold has brought up the issue of whether these "chem …
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Better living through home experiments? Chapter II

I'd like to revisit Scope of unsuitable questions to include security and hazardous flags in light of a question that came up today and elicited some controversy. The question in question is How to i …
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Should dimensional analysis problems be on-topic? [duplicate]

We've had a few dimensional analysis questions in the past, but we've recently had quite a few more. I'm not calling anyone out here, I'm just stating a fact. These homework examples may not invol …
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Everyday use of "Everyday Chemistry"

It's a bit of a "meta" tag but we can hold (or re-hold) that discussion another time, since I think it does have some utility. …
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How much effort is "enough" with homework problems? We would like to hear all ideas! (please)

We have a very good homework policy outlined for the site with some good and bad examples of homework problems. Over the last few weeks, there have been several cases when users have added a line or …
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Should we revisit the URL slug issue?

As we know from 'ce' prepended to equations in url slug?, any mhchem that gets edited into question titles affects the URL slug, e.g., http://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/5938/how-many-molecu …
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Thanks for being more diligent about homework questions!

By and large, our resident scholars-in-training have been doing a commendable job with including their initial attempts in the homework problems that have been posted. I'm pleased that new users to t …
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Does the tag "General" serve any purpose?

general has 20 questions associated with it. I think it was originally intended to refer to general chemistry, but I don't think it's really important in that designation, either. Pretty much any ch …
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I question the use of "question" in question titles

The search: https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3Aquestion brings up some 63 odd questions. Some of them are closed, some are actually pertaining to specific questions on particular e …
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