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Fluoroalkanes, and Zaitsev's rule

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NMR: Why do "identical" protons not experience splitting?

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List of metals or alloys with fatigue limit

  • TheAzn
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What's the best way to make high quality Cu(II)SO4 crystal?

  • Felchi
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Carbocation Stability in Prop-1-enylbenzene

  • Suraj M
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Polymerization of acrylamide with K Persulfate without Bis

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Is there any mechanism for learning p block reactions?

  • Raghav Gupta
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Mechanism for Phosgene Formation

  • chemkid01
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How can I improve in chemistry lab with no chemistry background?

  • JoeyCentral
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Does the smell of alcohols increase as molar mass increases?

  • maturk
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Why reducing nature of hydrides increases down a group?

  • Raghav Gupta
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Ordering C-I, C-Br, C-Cl, and C-F bonds by length

  • henry3369
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Why Do Electrons Further Away from the Nucleus Have More Energy?

  • henry3369
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Does KP predict reaction direction?

  • Mike Dacre
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What is the Mechanism of Trinitration of Phenol?

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Why does O acquire a positive charge in the reaction

  • andyrk
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When Q=K, is ∆G equal to zero?

  • patrickbotros
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Why is Liter*atm equivalent to Joules?

  • patrickbotros
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When to use which Equilibrium Constant. (Kp vs. Kc)

  • patrickbotros
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Where is the alcohol peak on 5-iodovanillin?

  • mnmman
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Why do lanthanides have +3 oxidation state(most stable).

  • Raghav Gupta
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Why is Delta S purely dependent on gases?

  • patrickbotros
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Why do xenon/krypton have relatively high electronegativity

  • psuedoben
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Does the basicity of hydrides increase with larger atom size?

  • AdityaDev
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Organic Chemistry - Synthesis of Lidocaine

  • Sylvia
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Aluminum + Hydrochloric Acid: Making Aluminum Chloride

  • seyyed30
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Size difference between Hydrogen ion and electron?

  • rizwanibn
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Difference between dye and pigment

  • fog37
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Titration Apparatus: Acid/Base, Necessity of Known/Unknown

  • erisedk
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What type of intermolecular forces are exhibited in BF3?

  • joerog
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Dumb question but here goes-cations/anions?

  • Tribo
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Is an Ionic Bond Not a True Chemical Bond?

  • Ott Rovgeisha
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Metal Toxicity: Handling Cobalt and Tungsten Safely without Gloves

  • Calpalned
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Why is Thallium More Toxic than Other Boron Group Elements?

  • Calpalned
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How do catalysts speed up reactions without losing energy?

  • Felchi
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How cathode is positively charged in voltaic cell?

  • gracy
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What substance on a tap turned Dettol spray fluorescent yellow?

  • julietta
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In Gibbs Free Energy, why multiply -T?

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When does resonance take place?

  • kay
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Working with Maxwell's equations

  • AndrewBworth
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Is it Possible to Create a Monatomic Hydrogen Ion Gas?

  • RyanV777
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Why is 4d more shielded than 5s if 5s is higher in energy?

  • henry3369
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Fuel cell open circuit voltage and pressure of reactants

  • Mr bboy
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How does pressure affect the rate of a gaseous reaction?

  • absolutezer0es
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Basicity of hydrides if group 15 elements

  • AdityaDev
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Need suggestion of commercial chemical to clean shower stall

  • yungman
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Diethyl Ether and Hydrofluoric acid reaction

  • MasonX
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Why does greater entropy loss lead to lower freezing point?

  • gracy
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Principle and Angular Momentum Quantum Numbers

  • henry3369
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Work Done Calculation: Cylinder Piston System

  • gracy
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Removing aluminum chips from coolant holes in spiral drills

  • Zach.L
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Ethanol Extraction for Food Flavors: Natural or Synthetic?

  • alphacat92
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Why reduced atoms are more energetic?

  • godingly
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Produce Copper Carbonate with Electrolysis

  • max6333
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Software for simulating atom interaction

  • lennon
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Relationship Between Hybridization, Bond Length, and Reson

  • TimeInquirer
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Where Can I Find Quality Inorganic Chemistry Videos for High School?

  • Raghav Gupta
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Hybridization of carbanion in rings

  • mnmman
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Can I make a banana from nothing?

  • Scott Pratz
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First Ionization energy exceptions

  • henry3369
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Periodic trends and effective nuclear charge

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Supercooled ethanol/distilled water solution

  • vilisito
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Surface area contact with catalyst effect on hydrogen redox

  • CraigH
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Sodium hydride from sodium and hydrochloric acid

  • chloe100
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Making Liquid CO2: Is It Possible?

  • Suraj M
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Difference between molecular mass and molar mass

  • gracy
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Free energy in the free expansion of an ideal gas

  • MexChemE
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Problem with corrosion of gypsum cement

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Classical gases not necessarily ideal

  • Logan Land
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Heating CaO to create intense light

  • fishtail
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What is Kr2+ electron configuration?

  • fsci
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Why can the rate of one reactant reveal the whole reaction rate?

  • Chemer
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Relative stability of ortho and para isomers

  • Prashasti
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Charge of an Ion - What Does "+1" Mean?

  • FredericChopin
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Europiums electron configuration

  • Mniazi
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Do Any Chemicals Undergo Reverse Phase Transitions?

  • Physt
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Litmus on Aldehydes,Ketones,Alcohols,Amines.

  • Raghav Gupta
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Exciton Diffusion Length in P3HT:PCBM BHJ Cells

  • Physicist3
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What-where is the proof for Avogadro΄s law?

  • luckis11
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Can a Thermos Truly Keep Water Hot Forever?

  • Edward Wij
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Questions on Magnetism and Domains

  • Niaboc67
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DFT Hybrid Functionals: Inclusion of HF Exact Exchange Energies

  • hiltac
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Why do coal and oil produce fewer particulate emissions than natural gas?

  • davidgrant23
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How water, CO2, sand etc extinguish fire?

  • Raghav Gupta
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Reduction of quaternary ammonium salt

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Why does zinc get oxidized in a Daniell cell without external cause?

  • gracy
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Good chemistry experiments to try at home

  • Niaboc67
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Energy of reaction: per moles of what?

  • Danny-Boy
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Can Ammonium Bicarbonate 'salt out' ethanol alcohol?

  • ejnovek
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What is the independent variable in Boyle's Law?

  • AAAA
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How does an excimer form if ground state xenon has a full valence band?

  • MartinMan
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Is HCl a Molecular or Ionic Compound?

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Kinetic equilibrium of chemical reaction

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What Causes Magnetism and Repulsion in Magnets?

  • Niaboc67
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What really are resonance structures?

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