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Where Can I Find Rigorous Solutions for Weak Acid-Weak Base Equilibria?
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Are atoms lazy particles when it comes to ionic and covalent bonding?
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What happens to a powder when it is dispersed in the air?
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Chemical Reactions: Stronger Bonds, Reactive Elements
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The missing elements in the Periodic Table?
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What Are the Precautions and Dangers of Re-Distilling Alcohol-Based Solutions?
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Is stablility a byproduct of a chemical reaction?
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How are large compounds/molecules formed?
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How to prevent diesel fuel from gelling at low temperatures?
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Correct me if I am wrong, but atoms emit photons when they jump energy
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Fictional iron chemical reactions
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What is the best problem to solve for an IB Design Lab on acids and bases?
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Why Do Microwaves Only heat up Water?
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Boiling Points and Melting Points
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Vibrational Stretching Frequencies of some Diatomics
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Gain/Loss of Electrons: Explaining Element Affinity
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Unstable molecules - is the instability relative to environment?
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How to remember the charge of electrodes?
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Colour of complex compounds and crystal field theory
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Alkyds & Casein Chemical Diagrams: School Program Need Help
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Elemental composition of the body
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Adding KNO3 and seeing color change
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Synthesis of Glucose or Other High-Energy Sugars
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Where Can I Find Videos to Learn Basic Chemistry?
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Stacking Columns for Ethanol Fractionation - Snyder vs Vigreux
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Can an Atom Exist Without Electrons?
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Experimenting with Electrolysis: Mystery of Yellow Water
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Organic Soy Milk at Costco: Refrigerated vs. Non-Refrigerated
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How Does Water Influence the Taste of Frangelico?
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Third level of a certain molecule
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Identifying an Unknown Compound: Can You Help Solve this NMR Puzzle?
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I don't really understand the concept of organic oxidations.
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Is entropy 'S' measured on some fixed scale?
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White Spirit vs. Turps Substitute: Understanding the Chemical Differences
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Possible to find amount of a substance in tissue sample?
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Enclosed Electrolysis of Water Question
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Mystery material found in ashes of fire
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Understanding PPM Concentrations: Get Answers Here
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Books for Chemistry: Halliday-Resnik & Similar Titles
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Conducting liquid that is not electrolysed
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The correlationship between Salinity and Temperature in sea water?
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Temperature neutralization of explosives
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Why does helium have a greater first ionization energy than hydrogen?
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Environmental disaster chain of events (for story)
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Keep rice soaked into water for at least 30 minutes
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Confused About Hydroxy Butanoic Acids and Amide Hydrolysis: Can Someone Explain?
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Question, whats the best chemistry software for a college student?
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How do I classify acids and bases in chemistry?
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Dissociation of HCl in Ethanol: Factors Affecting Ability
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Acid-base theory for DNA and RNA
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Where Can I Find Accurate Vibrational Energy Levels of Ammonia?
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What is the chemical composition of cabbage?
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Why Can't Wet Paper Ignite?
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Avagadro's Number: How He Determined 6.022E23 Atoms in 12g Carbon
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Why is the N in pyrrolidine sp2 hybridized?
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Which is More Polar: Ethyl Acetate or Nitrobutane?
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Electron densities of Carbon Strontium water calcium
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Why are there different rate constants?
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Relative velocity equation help
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Could water become explosive if heated enough?
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Most accurate equation of state
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Do research chemists really make such little money?
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Is this grignard preparation mechanism correct?
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Why is the bond length of HI longer than that of HCl?
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Calculating Water and Steam Temperatures
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Dissociation of Acids & Bases into Ions
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What is the meaning of the dot notation in chemistry?
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Coordination Chemistry: how many ions formed when dissolved
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Reaction of dish soap and bleach
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Predicting molecular shape without drawing lewis structure
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Calculate grams according to equation
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Calculate K_{eq} with Reactants/Products: Units & Coefficients
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How Do You Calculate the Solubility of Benzoic Acid in Water?
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What are the inconsistencies and errors in common measurement units?
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When water is boiled, and the dissolved oxygen that was in the water
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I need to neutralize bleach in my heating system
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Chemical properties of transuranium elements
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Amino acid + HCl reaction and mechanism
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Enthelpy change with standard conditions
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Naming Cyclohexene with E/Z Configuration
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Why Does Shaking a Soda Can Cause an Explosion?
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What Determines the Strength of Forces Between Particles?
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How long does it take strong acid to burn fabric?
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Conductive material also UV transparent ?
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How does a metallic bond make metals better conductors?
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Biggest things you hate about work
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Diffusion, molecules will flow from high concentration to low
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Chemical Kinetics: 2A to C Reaction Rate Law
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Bonding Symbols? Understanding Oxygen & Hydrogen Bonds
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Why Can Some Elements React to Form Diatomic Molecules?
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How are diatomic molecules formed?
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Ethanol Production: Is My Yield Limited to 13%?
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Can ABA Arrangements Switch to ABC Arrangements in Crystals?
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Elephant toothpaste per cubic meter
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Why cold water instead of hot water for rinsing a jacuzzi tub?
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Some elements react with certain elements better than others ?
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Stability of Paired vs. Unpaired Electrons
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Melting-Why do intermolecular bonds weaken?
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Looking for Henry's Law Constant table for CO2
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Nitrobenzene/phenol/aspirin synthesis
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