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Why do octets lead to a stable configuration?
- Shrijit Roy
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Raman Spectroscopy Setup Not Functioning as Intended
- Bogthornder
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Gold hydride - what is the significance?
- Astronuc
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Bismuth Crystals
- Hornbein
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Affordable way to remove potassium from off-grid water?
- questions8938
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Cyano substituted hydrazines
- hilbert2
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Removing silver stains
- ldanielrosa
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
- Greg Bernhardt
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Racemic mixtures versus achiral compounds
- emitted_echo
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Side reactions while dissolving silver
- ldanielrosa
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Gamma Radiation and Electrolysis
- Highlight
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Why is AuCl4 an anion?
- Redriq1
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A different periodic table to ponder
- DaveE
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C&EN, "Are COFs the new MOFs?"
- Astronuc
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Rubber tyre “melting” inside, turned to deadly goo. Why?
- guyburns
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Question about lead & lead vapor
- sharps4590
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Gas Compressibility Factor Interpretation
- Kakashi
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City hard water turns ceramic tile bathroom shower grout orange color.
- gary350
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Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
- Kakashi
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Solvents for cleaning soap film?
- DaveE
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Hydrochloric Acid, NaOH, and English Ivy
- guyburns
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What glass is best at resisting acids when dissolving?
- SeekingKnowledge
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Can you make pure water acidic by adding free protons to it?
- Warp
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Alternative to Lead in car Batteries
- Thecla
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Molecular-level explanation of macroscopic phenomena: dissolving
- dextercioby
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Flash Joule Heating (FJH) Method for treating process waste streams
- Astronuc
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Looking for Equipment for Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis
- Sara128
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Do I Have Micro Plastics In My Filtered Water?
- Nabir14
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How to reduce tin?
- ldanielrosa
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What type of lab to go to for testing my home's tap water?
- timeuser84
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How to make Sodium Chlorate by Electrolysis of salt water?
- gary350
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Dissolving silver
- ldanielrosa
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Ruthenium-Iridium compound with catalytic effects
- Astronuc
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RIP Darleane C. Hoffman (1926-2025)
- robphy
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Will-o’-the-Wisps
- BillTre
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Chemists finally know why palladium beats nickel at C–H activation
- Astronuc
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Humidity of a saturated NaCl solution with anticaking additive
- JT Smith
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Resists for etching Aluminium with NaOH
- CWatters
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Why does having 8 valence electrons make an element inert?
- Redriq1
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Solubility of MgSO47H2O in water
- JT Smith
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Enthalpy - published values
- Joseph M. Zias
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How would you describe briefly your own mental modeling of chemistry?
- pellis
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Sc-Cr Metal complexes open benzene ring
- Astronuc
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Making a 12% Magnesium Chloride solution
- Sodagit
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How Can I Reverse Engineer and Create a DIY Halloween Pumpkin Pulp Replica?
- raider
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Electrospray ionisation
- hmparticle9
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Substance that boils at room temperature: Controlling the boiling temperature
- Pisica
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Help with chemical potential formula in a mixture
- Tryhard_
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What Is the White Powder from Ultrasonic Humidifiers and Is It Harmful?
- russ_watters
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Do Spontaneous Reactions actually need activation energy?
- Redriq1
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Net charge for phosphate and phosphite ion
- Jigneshbharati
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Trying to understand alveolar surface tension
- samy4408
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Counting d-electrons in M(I) transition metals
- Mayhem
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Skewed 3D visualization of E/Z in alkenes
- nomadreid
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(S)-2,3- Dihydroxypropanal priority
- nomadreid
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Ambiguity as to source of high pH
- neilparker62
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Cleaning a small batch of HDPE flakes obtained from motor oil containers
- Kakashi
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Electro-chemical degradation of stainless steel wire in my garden Slug-o-Cuter?
- Techno_Gardener
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Mnemonic for Lewis acids and bases
- em3ry
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How to lower Iodine number in Kernel oil
- fairlovely
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Please explain the reaction between Potassium carbonate and Magnesium
- lioric
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Why ethanol vapor doesn't get trapped in bread dough, while CO2 does?
- lost captain
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How does iron oxide accelerate cyanoacrylate glue curing?
- bland
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Iupac Nomenclature
- neilparker62
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Question About Breaking Bonds in Crystal Lattices
- NullusSum
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Why are some d-electron configurations more stable? (1st row)
- Mayhem
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Oligomerisation of L-Lactic acid to Prepolymer
- MahoneyTree
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Testing for the type of alcohol
- bigshlomi
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Safety in chemistry, but also in terms of functionality?
- naodorime
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Rationale for 6n+2 rule for the number of pi bonds in a non-cyclic molecule
- nomadreid
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Need help with alcohol burner and denatured alcohol
- bigshlomi
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Please Help with bonding frequencies
- Lahearle
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Sodium hypochlorite and alkyl benzene sulfonic acid
- RStone
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How to predict the volume of a solution?
- mishima
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Elephant toothpaste to fight fires?
- Occar
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Info on handling dangerous elements
- Saaz
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Potential across a battery cell change ion concentrations and electron flow
- DumpmeAdrenaline
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2nd Order Reaction - Units of Volume is in molarity?
- laser1
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Doubt EVA material
- jonas7878
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Disodium Octaborate Tetrahydrate questions
- kyphysics
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How to predict chemical reactions?
- askingask
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Diamond vs. Acids at room temperature
- PatrickP2
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Using Ethyl Butyrate to flavor water?
- skyshrimp
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Explanation for high boiling point of Iodine Monobromide as compared to Iodine Monofluoride
- neilparker62
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Will Atomized Kerosene Ignite with a Spark in Controlled Conditions?
- guss
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TBT, PFAS and Pesticides (Sample Analysis Budgets)
- RPSilva
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How to remove epoxy resin from diesel fuel? A/B extraction? Distill?
- Zxerja
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Where can I find chemistry experiments that are accurately described with the Dirac equation?
- jonjacson
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How Does SO3 Form 3 Pi Bonds Without an Expanded Octet Structure?
- hellohellohello
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Chemically regenerating my auto's catalytic converter?
- BadCatP0420
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Is Sylcap 284 as permeable as Sylgard 184?
- FirkwithaD
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Mouth heating up after eating biscuits
- Nabir14
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What is this clay and rubberish metarial?
- Nabir14
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Looking for a chemical with a boiling point between 10C and 50C
- Skaperen
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Making a synthetic tar/pitch material for a robot
- Magnus Wootton
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Potassium alum: how to prevent recrystallization in water?
- Antonspb
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What is the reaction of Ethyl 2-cyanoacrylate (superglue) and Alumina powder?
- Qmavam
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When do cyanide ligands form a tetrahedral geometry with Co2+ ?
- adf89812
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Why are metals in aqueous solution basic, and non-metals acidic?
- adf89812
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Reaction Rate experiment: Potassium Permanganate and Hydrogen Peroxide
- neilparker62
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