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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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Extract potassium nitrate from npk fertilizer

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Active ingredients in carbon deposit solvent

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Why Isn't My Endothermic Crystallization Working?

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Storing chemicals on my balcony (storing in changing temps)

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Order of Reactions occurring in aqueous solutions

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Gibbs energy for Lithiation in Lithium batteries

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Diamond oxidation -- covalent bonds

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Astatine's Interactions with Ion Exchange and Chromatography Resins

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Reaction energy for a Lithium Iron Phosphate battery

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Empirical approach for predicting mass spectra

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D-orbital splitting with CASSCF

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Cannot open GBW file with ORCA input

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How do you visualise the atomic orbitals?

  • Nethrz
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Why isn't bond dissociation energy/bond enthaply measured in Newtons?

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Oxygen dip in ionization energy trend

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Most dangerous chemicals?

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Why do paired electrons have no magnetic field lines?

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Organic Chemistry Synthesis Possibilities Discussion

  • PhysicsEnjoyer31415
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Identifying pd-pd and id-id bonds and molecular geometry names

  • Potato Head
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I can't apply my knowledge of shielding to explain the three slopes

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Potassium Iodide as a catalyst for Hydrogen Peroxide

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Ideas for a project in computational chemistry?

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Why don't hydrogen ions have osmotic activity in living organisms?

  • Max123
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Can you eat the Periodic Table?

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New Insight into the Chemistry of Solvents

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Separation of KCl from potassium chromium(III) PDTA

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Zirconium Versus Zirconium Carbide For Use With Galinstan

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Electrolysis: Dark blue oxide from steel?

  • Alex Linton
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Identification of HOMO/LUMO in radicals

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What is the Role of Energy in Quantum Hybridized Orbitals?

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Does G10 Material in Pocket Knives Pose a Cancer Risk?

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How to think about extensive and intensive properties?

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BET SA and Microporous Materials - equipment/software for MOFs

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Help please with SI-ATRP (polymerization) of polyacrylamide

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Do dative bonds in HClO4 conflict with valence bond theory?

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Central atoms in Lewis structures: basic question

  • nomadreid
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Force that causes ions to move to a lower concentration

  • PhysicsInterest
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Differences between ph meters for solutions, creams and oils

  • Physics man 2000
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Freon filled balloons go flat QUICKLY! Why?

  • Querulous One
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Copper sulfate reacted with chlorine in toilet porcelain

  • member 745317
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Trying to impress my 8th grade students, made some unknown stuff

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Regenerating ion exchange resin

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Chemical Garden, deeper conceptual explanation

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Dissolving caffeine in room temperature water

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Can degraded leatherette from Binoculars give off fumes?

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Potassium Bichromate/Dichromate

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Solubility of Sodium nitrate and nitrite

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The 1/2 equivalent point in a titration curve

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Can detergent also evaporate beside water?

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Azulene - an interesting blue organic compound

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Does CVT fluid viscosity degrade with age and time?

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Why Does Raman Activity Require Anisotropic Polarizability?

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Normality of (COONa)2 - KMNO4 titration (redox reaction)

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Calculating Molarity of KOH Solution: Discrepancy in Reported Results

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If potassium phosphate is 98% pure, what is likely to be the 2% impurity?

  • skyshrimp
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Boiling Sugar: How to Avoid Unwanted Goo

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Could Pyrotechnic Pepper Spray Be the Ultimate Self-Defense Solution?

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Why does overcooking food usually harden it?

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Will saturated blue silica gel break down in long-term storage?

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How does Sodium acetate react with water?

  • Saba
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Questions about the common-ion effect

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Molecular iodine in ethanol solution

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Density calculation sometimes can be confusing

  • Rev. Cheeseman
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NMR Spectrum - expected triplets appear as singlets

  • chemistryfourm
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2D electric field distribution in electrolyte solution

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Fluorescent Sample with Cuvette but not with Plate -- Why?

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Calculate the theoretical yield of a polymer (polysuccinimide)

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How do I synthesize Cedryl Acetate for perfumery?

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Light Heavy and Semiheavy Water Equilibrium

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How can I compute energy from a protein PDB file?

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Is there an acid that could dissolve Aluminium & leave Copper alone?

  • BriggsMason
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Why does temperature fall in endothermic process in adiabatic system?

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Preserving breast milk for jewelry

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Does Resonance Occur in Nitrobenzene Despite Having One Pi Bond?

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Mass of a precipitate: solubility and Ksp in a chemical reaction

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Can every atom be transformed into a noble gas?

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General Formulas for Nitrogen Dioxide

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Using nitric acid to dissolve brass

  • butterchimkin
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Why Does Reactivity Differ in Group 7?

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Synthesis of Fluorescents AuNCs

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Students' Complaint Gets Prof Fired

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