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What's the sp orbital of this carbon?

  • HeartSoul132
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Can Pressure Cause Water to Freeze at Room Temperature?

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Can Luminol Create a Glow-in-the-Dark Mist?

  • Kalagaraz
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Does all alcohol undergo halogenation and controlled oxidation?

  • maddy777
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How does smoking meat preserve it?

  • wasia
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How many moles of O are in 4.5 moles of P2O5?

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Anyone have a science lab in their home?

  • Wax
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Testing Water for Magnesium w/ Titration Kit

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What Is a Pseudochiral Carbon?

  • vikas92
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When to form double bonds in Lewis structures like CO2?

  • HeartSoul132
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What is the state of fire ? is it gas , solid or liquid ?

  • johncena
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Why does carbon have only 4 bonds and oxygen lone pairs?

  • HeartSoul132
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Enhancing Magnesium-Water Reaction with Pressure and Temperature

  • davo
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Understand Carbon Bonding: Electron Movement?

  • HeartSoul132
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Intro to Chemistry: Find a Short Intro Course For Chem 101

  • Quantum_Grid
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ACS Organic Exam Who's taken it?

  • amb123
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What are limiting reactants and how do you find them?

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DC Effect on Activated Carbon: Will it be Attracted to the Cathode?

  • liivvewire
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How Can Hydrogen Gas Be Produced Cheaply and Safely?

  • Archaeanimus
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Why does the Ksp equation for CaF2 use [2F]^2 instead of [F]^2?

  • staka
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How to find the Atomic Structure of a Constituent

  • Shelnutt2
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Is this stereocenter correctly drawn?

  • HeartSoul132
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Are Precursor Chemicals Easily Accessible in Texas?

  • cragar
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Are there any cool chemical reactions i can do in my own home?

  • Luongo
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What chemical effects could ancient alchemists have known about?

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Calculating work in a one-step expansion/compression

  • Footballer010
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Reaction between Aluminum Sulfide and Bleach?

  • wil3
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Vapor of a volatile substance in equilibrium with a fluid

  • MGren
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Can you make hydrogen peroxide for aquariums at home?

  • wouternet
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What is the difference in toxicity between thimerosal and straight mercury?

  • aquitaine
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Disable the effect of HCl on the PH of solution?

  • Silex7
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What is the difference between these systems of mass

  • ronaldor9
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Silicon Chemistry: Similar to Carbon? Synthesizing PEG-trimethoxysilane

  • hdsncts
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Difference between Gases and Vapours

  • danago
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Measuring thin film thickness with HATR infrared spectroscopy

  • aniruddhap
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Half-Reaction Method: Answers to Questions

  • Jules18
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Questions regarding Chemical Reactions

  • Mathman23
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Can someone tell me what the HD+ ion is?

  • AxiomOfChoice
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How does pool chlorine/filter do its thing?

  • DaveC426913
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Rust in test-tubes of HCl FeO or Fe3O4?

  • prime-factor
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Making a metal based anti-freeze

  • prysdieheer
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Finding all structural isomers of C9H20

  • peanutthrower
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How Do Wine Flavors Develop During Fermentation?

  • Math Is Hard
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How Does Ion Conduction Work in PEMFC and Proton Conductors?

  • avocadogirl
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Why is there more rust in a solution with less salt?

  • prime-factor
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Does a glass of water behind a microwave reduce radiation absorption?

  • Math Is Hard
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Can Degree of Freedom and Phase Rule be Applied to Organic Reactions?

  • monty37
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Redox Reactions: Sulphuric Acid as an Oxidizing Agent

  • chmate
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Speeding up the electrodeposition of copper

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How can we predict the geometry of a coordination compound?

  • cncbmb
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Relaxation and retardation time for polymeric liquids

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Gibbs energy of formation and electrolysis efficiency

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Measyrement of Conductivity and Dielectric constant

  • pururaj
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Atomic Theory Presentation: Interesting Points to Include

  • da_coolest
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How amu is equal to Molar Mass Must S33

  • HussanAli
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How Do I Create a Sodium Acetate Buffer Solution with a Specific pH?

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-ene Nomenclature (semi-structural formulas)

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Lead Dioxide Anode: Why Not Use Lead Strip?

  • RayRoc
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Why do molecules vibrate and where does the energy come from?

  • nuby
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What is the chemical formula of pure milk?

  • johncena
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High speed polymerization reaction initiated by the action

  • EIRE2003
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How to mix parafin wax with chemicals

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How Can I Safely Dissolve Sapphire Without Damaging Gallium Nitride?

  • kelvin490
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On-demand hydrogen from liquid hydrocarbons at high pressure

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IR spectra and point group symmetry

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Homemade smoke compound for airsoft game grenades

  • moolahmoolah
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Extinguishing Fire with Water - Chemical Reaction

  • johncena
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Liquid that hardens like epoxy but isn't adhesive for mold-making

  • KingNothing
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Organic Chemistry over the Summer

  • spiff711
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Determining if solvent layer has water.

  • ~christina~
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Can we make water by combining hydrogen and oxygen?

  • johncena
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What Non-Flammable, Conductive Chemicals Can Be Used in Liquid Form?

  • paraskevi
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Is water blue from molecular absorption, not just scattering?

  • DaveC426913
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Why don't electrons merge with the nucleus in atoms?

  • Shreyan
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What happens when cold butane solution is poured into warm water?

  • psycho2499
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Arranging K+, K, O, S2−, and Cl by radius

  • msdel
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Understanding Periodic Table Trends

  • StephenDoty
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Why don't alkanes and water mix: polarity or density?

  • RJVoss
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What Causes the Change in Spin State from Fe(bipy)3 to Fe(bipy)2(H2O)2?

  • silimay
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Reaction of Calcium Carbonate in Water with Hydrochloric Acid

  • Aezi
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Inorganic chemistry - very general confusion

  • silimay
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Is Raid Safe for Spraying on Tomatoes?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Evaporation of organic solvent and leftover residue

  • ~christina~
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Is Mixing Table Salt and Water Enough to Create Hydrochloric Acid?

  • gnwjr
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Understanding Car Accidents: Exploding Pop Cans in Garage - What Happened?

  • Integral
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Filtration and choice of solvent

  • ~christina~
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How did Native people purify water

  • kateman
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Cooking saltpeter+sugar rocket fuel?

  • Artlav
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Aqueous solutions and whether they are acidic/basic/neutral

  • ~christina~
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How do zwitterions behave in different solutions and solid states?

  • crays
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Calculating toxicant concentration

  • PedroAndrade
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Is My Charcoal Batch Safe to Use for a Water Filter After Burning a Hole?

  • kateman
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