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rainbow wrote:

Rumraket wrote:Alright, so now that this has been clarified we can scrap the notion that the authors are "tweaking the concentrations and purities to improve the chances of the desired reaction taking place" and move on.

Well it seems that in research generally they do this, but in this particular case - we can't be sure.

This is generally done in research, I guess you have that on good grounds... Tell me:

If any researcher would tweak concentration and purities to achieve the environment required for the hypothesis, what impact would this have on the hypothesis?

Conversely, what do you think would happened if a researcher would tweak concentration and purities in such a way that the environment of the experiment deviated from the environment specified in the hypothesis?