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Why Do Strongly Bonded Compounds Like HCl and NaCl Ionize in Water?
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Chemistry Questions: Answers for Ions, Periodic Table, Molarity
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What is more reactive carbon or phosphor
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Solution vs Colloid naming convention
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Surface tension and concentration
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Why is W(VI) more stable than Cr(VI)
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Help Strange problem with scientific calculator.
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What is a Standard State or Reference State of an element?
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How Does Conjugation Lower Energy and Increase Stability in Aromatic Compounds?
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Is 1-butanol molecule a surfactant?
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AC refrigerant in cars,greenhouse effect reasoning
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Why do atoms follow octet rule?
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Does my alcohol burner have a problem?
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Why does the melting point of graphite is higher than diamond?
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The weak acid conjugate base - something i can't understand.
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Why Does CH3 Direct Radicals to Para and Ortho While COOH Directs to Meta?
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Why is my salt solution not lighting the bulb?
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Maximizing Safety and Accuracy in Titration: Tips for Volumetric Analysis
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Community College Lab Field Trips
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Trying to understand neon lights
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Why does silver carbonate dissolve in nitric acid?
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Calculating the pH of CO2 dissolved in 1l of water
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Bridging the gap between waters selfionizatio and Le Chatelier
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Flocculation based water purification.
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Is CH3OH a better notation for methanol than CH4O?
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Gas fittings: Chromatograph and Sputtering
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How do you know .how many percent of acid for any compound
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About the energy necessary to pull out the closest electron of a atom
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Which Methanol State to Use for Heat of Reaction Calculations?
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How is a PH of a solution determined?
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Orbital theory - Molecular vs Hybrid orbitals
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Aluminum Properties: Why Does It Not React with H2 and Plate Silver?
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Fe Ag reactions in used photo fix solution question.
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Thermal decomposition of calcium carbonate ?
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Diprotic acids and weak acids/bases
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Why do greenhouses gases need to have dipoles?
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Why does water have higher entropy than helium?
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How do collisions between gas molecules result in equal average kinetic energy?
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Why are antiaromatic compounds less stable than aromatic compounds?
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Help interpreting molal boiling point constant.
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Why can substances with endothermic heat of solution dissolve?
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Gas Phase Ion Chemistry vs. Plasma Chemistry
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Why does a silicon atom in a silicon lattice have 4 single bonds?
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Is it Possible to Flash Freeze the Human Brain and Send it into Space?
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What is the difference between gibbs free energy and activation energy
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When do you use q=mc(Tf-Ti) versus q=c(Tf-Ti) in thermochemistry calculations?
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Hybridization of orbitals for Phosphorus in Phosphate Ion
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Slow precipitation of calcium carbonate.
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Chemical transformation (Decomposition)
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Oxidation number in acidic medium
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Displacement reaction at solubulity limit. Does it stop or precipitate
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Can a Gas Remain the Same Temp When Compressed?
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What Could Be Causing Fluctuations in Quantum Yield Measurements?
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What Defines a Feeble Acid in Chemistry?
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A few questions about anodization
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What is the relationship between ΔG, ΔH, and ΔS in thermodynamics?
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Proper material for electrolytic cell?
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What exactly causes osmotic pressure?
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Phosphorous ion in solution and subsequent electromigration?
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Cross Cannizzaro and Intramolecular Cannizzaro
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Are there any material that contact with water and expand?
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Kinetics Assumptions: Approximations & Equilibria
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How to Purify Acetone with Magnesium Sulphate & Activated Carbon
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Limitations of the nernst equation
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Solving Depigmentation Problem in Hair Extensions
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What is the Correct Method for Measuring CO2 Gas Volume?
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Are all exothermic processes exergonic?
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Determining Charges of Polyatomic ions
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Mechanism of Oobleck - Non-Newtonian Fluid
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Why are Tertiary Alkyl Halides More Reactive Than Secondary and Primary Ones?
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Donnan equilibrium -how is the potential difference caused?
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Substance or chemical reaction, that is highest rate in changing mass
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What is the energy of an atom and does it exist when heat energy is absent?
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Optical Activity: How Do Chiral Molecules Rotate Light?
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Determination the compound is organic or inorganic
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Electron behavior in covalent bonds
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Homebrewing beer and galvanic corrosion
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Determining ethanol and methanol content in homemade booze
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Gas collected over water & Fick's Law
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Substance is in equilibrium between its vapour and liquid
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Electrochemical reduction of Hydrogen forms hydride?
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What is the unit cell and coordinates for wurtzite crystal structure?
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What happens with fats after exercise?
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What Factors Influence Vapour Pressure and Molecular Escape into the Gas Phase?
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WHy are ionic bonds intramolecular forces?
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Mass of Light Bulb Change From Adding Ideal Gas
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Explaining the 2 in Δt = 2L/vx in Kinetic Theory
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Side chains numeration of proteins (example Cytochrome C)
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Problem in determining the moisture content
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E=mc^2 states mass and energy are interchangeable but ?
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Software to find similarity of two molecules
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Removing impurities via recrystallization
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Effects of Pressure on Water: Explained
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How to Determine the Wavelength to Cleave O-H Bonds in Water?
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Corrosion Vs Oxidation: Differences?
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Debye-Hückel Rule: Relaxation Effects in Electric Fields
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Can Ferromagnetic Objects Be Decomposed Using Magnetism?
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Using a Catalyst With Fuel Cells: Benefits and Challenges
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Max Conjugate Base: Find pH w/ Sum of pKa's
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Resonance Structures Chemistry: What is Potential Energy?
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