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Character Table Hell: Understanding Irreducible Representations
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Inorganic I - 8 Coordinate Complexes
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Understanding Chemical Bonding: Why Last Sublevel Electrons Matter
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Can a solution contain only cations?
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Why can the mixing of acids and bases be dangerous
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Is a Daniell Cell Rechargeable?
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Does anyone know which, if any, liquids or chemicals absorb infrared
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How to report mass spectroscopy and elemental analysis in the RSC style
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How to Prepare a Buffer Solution with Methanoic Acid and Methanoate Ions?
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Hydration energy and charge to size ratio of ions
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Carbonic Acid Breakup: Does It Separate Immediately?
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Sugar Water: Homogeneous or Heterogeneous Mixture?
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Refining Alkenes: Separating Ethylene & Monomer Definition
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What are the criteria for classifying elements as metalloids and halogens?
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Why Does Copper Exhibit Two Valencies?
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How much base to neutralize acid?
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A Few Organic Chem Questions (Stereochemistry)
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Why Does Soap Lather Appear White?
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Why doesn;t Carbon show deviation from electron configuration
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Electrolytic vs. electrochemical vs. galvanic cells.
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What is Enthalpy and How Does it Relate to Heat and Pressure?
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Haber process and power generation
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Ion Exchange Between Salts in a Solution
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Containing Electrolysis Underwater
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FTIR of Succinic Anhydride in Polymer Synthesis
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Strength of hyrdrogen charges between ethanol and water
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How is Hydrogen Peroxide Made via Electrolysis?
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Al OH3 Electrolysis: Yield Al, H2O, O2?
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Creating a Phase Diagram for C60 Triple Point?
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How to memorize the periodic table?
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Decomposition of Sodium Carbonate: Examining the Reaction with Water
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PH Scale: Understanding Its Mechanism
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What are Skeletal Formulas in Chemistry and Biochemistry?
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Impurities on melting point and boiling point of water
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Reduction of metal oxides by Carbon
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Can anyone tell me on what basis do we assign ok not assign conclude
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What Are Some Awesome Chemistry Demonstrations?
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Can Citric Acid Dissolve Set Plaster of Paris for Mold Removal?
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Investigating Spurious CO Alarms on Boats
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Identifying Possible Structural Isomers
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Lattice length for Zincblende structures
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Is MMS from Jim Humble safe? What can cause NaClO2 to the cells?
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Things you can make with urine?
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So how do you know when a chemical is an acid or not? I know that an
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Are all acid have covalent structure in solid state?
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Why platinum is used in some half cells and not in others?
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PH=pKa+log([A-]/[HA]) add lots of water and the pH still remains constant?
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Potassium Carbonate + Water Reaction
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Naming Oxoanions/Oxoacids, which ion to base off of?
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Relative Atomic Mass: Definition & Explanation
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Rechargable galvanic cell?[remove the salt bridge}
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Dimensional Analysis with volume?
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Why Can't Salt Be Separated from Water Using a Centrifuge or by Letting It Sit?
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How to dehydrate a solid crystal?
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Why does glass get elastic when immersed in HF; like this video?
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Products of aluminum sulfate electrolysis
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Is SiO3 soluble in Hydrofluoric acid?
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How Do You Calculate the Cube Length of Packed Silicon Atoms?
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Can someone explain electronegativity, please.
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Salty water showing a voltage?
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Hydrogen bond big problems in my mind
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Finding Solvent to Dissolve Paraffin Wax
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How to determine the value of electronegativity
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Van't Hoff Approach to Finding ∆H and ∆S
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Explaining why some reactions are spontaneous at certain temperatures
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Mastering Equation Balancing in Chemistry: A Universal Method for All Reactions
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What is the Structure of Ganglioside and Its Variants GM1, GM2, and GM3?
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Calculating the EMF of batteries
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The carbon content of a good samari sword
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2 questions (one ochem and one pchem)
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Atoms Unite: Gas vs. Non-Gas Molecules
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Sugars Question: Is Galactose Formed from Glucose?
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Question concerning solubility equilibriums for salts
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Why is there a discrepancy in the calculated dipole moment of a water monomer?
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Measuring the temperature of a combustion
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PH at the equivalence point
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Why does water taste stale after sitting out?
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Understanding Buffers: pKa, pH & Solutions
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What causes unclear endpoints in diprotic acid titrations?
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How to Extract Grain-Sized Gold in Dirt?
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Why is sulphuric acid added to copper sulfate solution for electroplating?
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Citric acid buffer solution for prac
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Titration Questions: Finding Levulinic Acid Concentration
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Understanding pKa of Fatty Acids
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Halochromism in Phenolphthalein
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Explore the Convergence of Drug Levels with Math, Physics, Biology, & Chemistry
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Why Does Hemoglobin Cause Longer Fluorescence in Luminol Reactions?
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What kind of phosphate is present in fertilizers?, some say that the
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Acid-Base Equilibria: Clarifying Confusion
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Free radical Halogenation for heat
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How Does Hybridization Occur and Affect Molecular Structures?
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Are there Lewis acids that *don't* have pH's below 7?
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Why are acidic amino acid side chains acidic?
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What is the blue Zinc ion in my patient's stomach?
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Determining an empirical formula
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Heat change between system and surrounding
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What Happens When the Universe Reaches Maximum Entropy?
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What Temperature is Required to Break a Water Molecule?
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Why is dichloromethane a good organic solvent?
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Why do things bond in chemistry?
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