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Ortho/Meta/Para Chloro Benzyl Alcohol & Ester Reactivity
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Can a Magnetic Field Create Ions?
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Decent references for SN2 displacement of tosylate with acetylide
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Converting Methane to Methanol with Photochemical Reactor
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How did they come up with this completed reaction
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Safety of Reacting: What's the Best Way?
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ACS Organic Chemistry Exam: Unlock the Mystery!
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Electrolysis of aqeuous solutions
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Substitution Polymers: Research, Explanation and Help Needed
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Help in Understanding Hydrogen Fuel Cells?
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Should variations in beaker mass be included in a chemistry lab report?
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How do electron shells and subshells/orbitals relate?
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Oxidation & Reduction: Measurement of Power - Electrochemistry
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Does amount of electrons orbiting an atom effect rate of radioactive decay?
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Derive the ideal gas law from Charles', Boyle's, and Avogadro's, how?
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Why can't scientists make Gold?
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Do water filters remove fluoride?
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Understanding Crystal Structures: How to Read Table Data for Modeling in VESTA
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What Are the Best Science Demos for High School Students?
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Does iron react into gas phase?
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Why do we use external pressure to calculate work in gas cylinders?
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Metal oxides displacement reaction
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Why do cell walls become brittle when dried?
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Senior Thesis in Chemistry: Ideas for High Schoolers
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Element 114 = Flerovium; Element 116 = Livermorium
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How to use white phosphorus without ignite it?
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How can the steric factor be greater than 1
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Alcohol Solvents: Dissolving Herbs' Alkaloids & Resins
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How to tell whether a reaction is an elementary reaction
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Why is Hess's Law Generally Not Obeyed?
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Determining an Emperical Formula using Combustion Analysis data
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Help with definitions of dioxide and oxide
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Why Is Carbon Dioxide Added to Tonic Water for Taste and Texture?
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3D Printer Resin's Chemical Makeup?
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Sources for Crystal Models (FCC, BCC, etc)?
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Is the octet rule, important to the atom?
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Electrolysis of brine produced white stuff.
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Why Doesn't Cooking Chicken in Aluminum Foil Cause an Explosion?
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Leaky alkaline batteries - did I clean up enough?
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Does an O Chem I and II Rxn Mechanism Bible exist?
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Van der Waals forces of hydrogen
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Ligand Exchange - are they reversible?
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Identifying Unknown Compounds in a Lab
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Why is Mixing Units in the Nernst Equation Considered Accurate?
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Is There an Island of Stability in Nuclear Physics?
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PEM Fuel Cells vs Batteries: Understanding the Difference
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What is the dual nature of electrons and how does it relate to Quantum Theory?
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Solubility of Benzo(a)pyrene & Other PAH's in Pure Water
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Unknown solution- ppm of Ca needed
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What is the hybridization of SnCl3 and is sp2 hybridization the correct answer?
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Best biology and chemistry textbooks to prepare for college
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Effect of amount of catalyst in a reaction
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Boyles Law Graphs: PV vs Pressure Explained
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Gyver: Quick-n-Dirty Synthetic Methane from Hydrogen
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R S Configuration Assigning Priorities
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Gibbs Free Energy Change/Entropy
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What chemical solution to use for cleaning digital camera sensors?
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How Do You Calculate Theoretical Reaction Time in Enzyme Experiments?
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Making Sodium Acetate Anhydrous: A Beginner's Guide
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What's the rule to covalent character
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Acid Base Theories: Bronsted-Lowry vs Lewis
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Where Can I Find Spectral Data for Schwartz Reagent (NMR/MS/IR)?
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Inversion Temp: Critical Temperature Explained
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Why Does KMnO4 Oxidise I- to I2 in Acidic Medium but to IO3- in Alkaline Medium?
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Carbon dioxide removal from biogas
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Why can't the phenyl cation be stabilized by resonance?
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Mole Concept: 1.008g H & 12g C = Avogadro's # Atoms
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What is water of crystallisation?
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Ligand field stabilization energies, is it correct to say
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Activeion, new cleaning method, or homeopathy for dirt?
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Orbital Hybridisation: Myth or Misconception?
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Is There an Acid That Can Corrode TiO2 Coating?
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Why is rate of dissolution constant?
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What Does Enthalpy of Vaporization Mean Beyond the Boiling Point?
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Partial derivative in thermodynamics
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What may be the negative catalyst?
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Why Does Polymerisation Occur in Diols?
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What is Resonance in Haloarenes and How Can I Solve This Problem?
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What is the Correction Made for Van der Waal Pressure?
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Separating Silver from Aluminum & Making Silver Nitrate
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Flouride salt safety issues? (high temperature)
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What iron-salts will dissolve in water?
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Why does only the amino group react in the synthesis of paracetamol?
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NMR versus GC/MS, HPLC/GC, HCLtitration, meltingpoint test
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Styrene Maleic Anhydride - Bond Angles and Lengths
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Acid-Base Titrations and Liquid Soap
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Exponent value in Arrhenius Equation
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How Do I Calculate the Coordination Number for FCC?
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Which chemical reactions are possible?
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Why is white phosphorus not soluble in water?
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Rates of reaction experiment SPA
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Which Chemicals Make the Best Fuels for Turbocharged Engines?
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How to remove the chemical smell from plastic?
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Calculate the amount to bring down the pH
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Using UV-Vis Spectroscopy to determine concentration
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Ideal Gases: dU=dW+dQ and dU=3/2RdT
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Rate Constants and Concentration-Time Equations: Exploring aA→B
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PH to Concentration of Citric Acid
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Why Do Atoms Seek an Octet in Their Valence Shell?
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Thermophysical properties of gases and liquids
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