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Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
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Solvents for cleaning soap film?
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Hydrochloric Acid, NaOH, and English Ivy
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What glass is best at resisting acids when dissolving?
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Can you make pure water acidic by adding free protons to it?
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Gold hydride - what is the significance?
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A different periodic table to ponder
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Alternative to Lead in car Batteries
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Molecular-level explanation of macroscopic phenomena: dissolving
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Flash Joule Heating (FJH) Method for treating process waste streams
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Looking for Equipment for Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
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Do I Have Micro Plastics In My Filtered Water?
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How to reduce tin?
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What type of lab to go to for testing my home's tap water?
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How to make Sodium Chlorate by Electrolysis of salt water?
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Dissolving silver
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Ruthenium-Iridium compound with catalytic effects
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RIP Darleane C. Hoffman (1926-2025)
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Will-o’-the-Wisps
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Chemists finally know why palladium beats nickel at C–H activation
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Humidity of a saturated NaCl solution with anticaking additive
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Resists for etching Aluminium with NaOH
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Why does having 8 valence electrons make an element inert?
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Solubility of MgSO47H2O in water
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Enthalpy - published values
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How would you describe briefly your own mental modeling of chemistry?
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Sc-Cr Metal complexes open benzene ring
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Making a 12% Magnesium Chloride solution
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How Can I Reverse Engineer and Create a DIY Halloween Pumpkin Pulp Replica?
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Electrospray ionisation
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Substance that boils at room temperature: Controlling the boiling temperature
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Help with chemical potential formula in a mixture
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What Is the White Powder from Ultrasonic Humidifiers and Is It Harmful?
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Raman Spectroscopy Setup Not Functioning as Intended
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Do Spontaneous Reactions actually need activation energy?
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Net charge for phosphate and phosphite ion
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Trying to understand alveolar surface tension
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Counting d-electrons in M(I) transition metals
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Skewed 3D visualization of E/Z in alkenes
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(S)-2,3- Dihydroxypropanal priority
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Ambiguity as to source of high pH
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Cleaning a small batch of HDPE flakes obtained from motor oil containers
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Electro-chemical degradation of stainless steel wire in my garden Slug-o-Cuter?
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Mnemonic for Lewis acids and bases
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How to lower Iodine number in Kernel oil
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Please explain the reaction between Potassium carbonate and Magnesium
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Why ethanol vapor doesn't get trapped in bread dough, while CO2 does?
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How does iron oxide accelerate cyanoacrylate glue curing?
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Iupac Nomenclature
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Question About Breaking Bonds in Crystal Lattices
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Why are some d-electron configurations more stable? (1st row)
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Oligomerisation of L-Lactic acid to Prepolymer
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Testing for the type of alcohol
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Safety in chemistry, but also in terms of functionality?
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Rationale for 6n+2 rule for the number of pi bonds in a non-cyclic molecule
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Need help with alcohol burner and denatured alcohol
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Please Help with bonding frequencies
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Sodium hypochlorite and alkyl benzene sulfonic acid
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How to predict the volume of a solution?
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Elephant toothpaste to fight fires?
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Info on handling dangerous elements
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Potential across a battery cell change ion concentrations and electron flow
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2nd Order Reaction - Units of Volume is in molarity?
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Doubt EVA material
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Disodium Octaborate Tetrahydrate questions
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How to predict chemical reactions?
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Diamond vs. Acids at room temperature
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Using Ethyl Butyrate to flavor water?
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Explanation for high boiling point of Iodine Monobromide as compared to Iodine Monofluoride
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Will Atomized Kerosene Ignite with a Spark in Controlled Conditions?
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TBT, PFAS and Pesticides (Sample Analysis Budgets)
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How to remove epoxy resin from diesel fuel? A/B extraction? Distill?
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Where can I find chemistry experiments that are accurately described with the Dirac equation?
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How Does SO3 Form 3 Pi Bonds Without an Expanded Octet Structure?
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Chemically regenerating my auto's catalytic converter?
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Is Sylcap 284 as permeable as Sylgard 184?
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Mouth heating up after eating biscuits
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What is this clay and rubberish metarial?
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Looking for a chemical with a boiling point between 10C and 50C
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Making a synthetic tar/pitch material for a robot
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Potassium alum: how to prevent recrystallization in water?
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What is the reaction of Ethyl 2-cyanoacrylate (superglue) and Alumina powder?
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When do cyanide ligands form a tetrahedral geometry with Co2+ ?
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Why are metals in aqueous solution basic, and non-metals acidic?
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Reaction Rate experiment: Potassium Permanganate and Hydrogen Peroxide
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d-orbital self split or proton split d-orbitals?
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What's the correct way to count chelate rings in [Co(EDTA)]-?
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Chromium 2+ ion uses only unfilled d-orbitals to form 6 dative bonds?
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Correct phrase involving optical rotation of venom
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How do YBCO superconductors react with hydrochloric acid?
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Valence shell of transition metals definition is what?
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Are atomic conductivity and standard reduction potential correlated?
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Why do the d, f orbitals of transition metals have less reactivity?
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Transition Metal Periodic Trend -- Stackexchange's answer confuses me
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Group I/II Metal oxides always basic in aqueous solution -- why?
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Determing peak anodic and cathodic currents in quasi-reversible CV?
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When to use exponents or multiply by constants in the rate law?
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What is maximum Pauling electronegativity or energy difference between orbitals?
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Acidic strength of phenol with isotopic oxygen i.e O 18 and just phenol
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