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Make Red Colored Stars w/ Strontium Compounds

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Ethanol Dissolving: Molecules Stay Intact?

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Is Nevlar, a New Polymer Design, Stronger than Kevlar?

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How to Safely Work with NaF and KF at 1000°C in a Poorly Equipped Lab?

  • Oxygenne
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How do I name the polymer in the image?

  • bomba923
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O-H..N Bonds: Can Mevlar Outperform Kevlar?

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Why Does Glass Become Brittle After Heating?

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Kinetic or Thermodynamic Stability: What's the Difference?

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How Do Fajan’s Rules Influence the Ionic Nature of a Bond?

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Elements that react with crystalline

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Rusting in the fermentation room. Explanations?

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Setting up my first distillation: grease, clips, heating and cooling

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Paramagnetism/Diamagnetism Predictions

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Did Floyd Landis Use External Testosterone?

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Can you make your own plastic with household items?

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Which Atom Holds the Unpaired Electron in Nitric Oxide's Lewis Structure?

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How to calculate and recover HCl gas escaping during tank loading

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How can I open my IR spectra files without suitable software?

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Did zinc react with zinc sulphate solution?

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Does Electrochemical Potential Affect Corrosion Rates in Metals?

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Boron esters and oxygen removal

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Simple Way to Understand Properties of Matter

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Why is carbon-12 lighter than its protons and neutrons combined?

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What causes electrons to repel and protons and electrons to attract?

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Why do positive ions move toward the positive electrode in galvanic cells?

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More tetrabromoethane questions

  • wxrocks
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Naming isomers of pentene beyond pent-1-ene and pent-2-ene

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KNO3 Stump Remover: Is 13-0-44 Pure Enough?

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Sulfur Extraction and Potassium Nitrate

  • fireboytommy
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Historical question concerning Moseley's experiment

  • jdlawlis
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The Works Toilet Cleaner: Investigating the Results

  • Kitsune 205
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Phase Changing substance: me out

  • tkdpainkiller
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What Are the Chemical Components of Ice Cream?

  • Turkish
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Understanding KJ/person in a Society

  • msdel
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Need Chemistry Review Books for College Class?

  • skybox
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Preparing for GRE chemistry in 4 months

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TiO2 spin coating cracks with TiCl4 in ethanol

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Preparation of Chromium (III) Salts

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Translucent liquid with the same texture as shampoo?

  • daniel_i_l
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Chemistry Blogging: Is It Here to Stay?

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How can concentrated Hydrochloric acid be used to clean copper coins?

  • DaveC426913
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Extracting potassium permanganate from Poly-Ox pond treatment

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Does Impure Water Affect Electricity Conductivity?

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Want to Earn Extra Cash by Testing Your Physics and Chemistry Knowledge?

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Ice cream and freezing point depression

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How do chemists make benzyl peroxide?

  • PrudensOptimus
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Acetone from Nail Polish Remover?

  • xxMIKExx
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What is the Diet Coke and Mentos experiment?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Understanding Eutectic Point: Definition and Calculation

  • chound
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Suggestions for Chemistry/Biochemistry Texts

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Graph absorption spectra of 2,3-dimethylindole?

  • ironcross77
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Polycarb vs Acetone: Why Does Acetone Damage Polycarbonate?

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What causes the maximum viscosity in ethanol concentrations of 50%?

  • SqrachMasda
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What experimental evidence requires quantized energy emission by atoms?

  • amtmail
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Chemical weapons loose in London?

  • Rach3
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Can CO2-V Network Solid Be Stabilized at Normal Temperature and Pressure?

  • bomba923
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Water Potential: Kinetic or Potential Energy?

  • chound
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Alkyl groups donating electrons

  • teilchen
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What materials maximize voltage and current in a theoretical battery?

  • SAZAR
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How can concentration be calculated in a chemical experiment?

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Reacting Water & Acids: What's the Result?

  • Haftred
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Separating Ethanol from Water by Boiling

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Where exactly do you get the chemicals to do your own experiments?

  • wScott
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How Do Poisons Chemically Affect the Body?

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Understanding Stereoisomerism in C5H10 with One Cyclopropane Ring

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Organic chemistry acids and bases are confusing me

  • Dr. Nick
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Ochem energy calculation - correct answer?

  • tandoorichicken
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Study of tautomerism using radioactive isotopes

  • Nomy-the wanderer
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Practical exam tomorrow on chemical equations

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Why Is Carbon Listed as 12.0107 g/Mole?

  • pivoxa15
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Can I get sodium or sodium oxide with common chemicals?

  • The P-manator
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Can learning physics improve understanding of chemistry?

  • TMNT
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Unburning Toast: Can it be Done?

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Can a pencil be put back together

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Activated carbon vs. Typical bonfire coal

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Anti-Grafitti Research in Chemistry - Netherlands

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Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis and Catalysts

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Catalytic decomposition of nitrous oxide?

  • rocketman
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How can you electroplate brass onto steel?

  • mrjeffy321
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How Do You Solve Complex Chemistry Titration and Reaction Problems?

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Why does strontium carbonate smell like rotten eggs when reacted with HCl?

  • mrjeffy321
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Will Cast Iron dissolve in dil. or conc. acid?

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Partial thermodynamic equilibrium and Gibbs energy minimisation

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Slippery Properties of Soap, Oil, NaOH, Bleach

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Does water/ or solid have concentration?

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Light emitting chemicals and electromagnetic fields.

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How Does Water Concentration Impact Chemical Reactions?

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Why do schools continually push the idea of teamwork?

  • ShawnD
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Simulating life's origin by running physics backward in time

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Love is like a chemistry lab

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Can Hydrogen undergo PI bonding?

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Why Aren't Rubidium or Radioactive Bullets Used in Warfare?

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What color is fire burning in pure oxygen?

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Alexander Shulgin: Thoughts from Chemistry Community

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How do I set up an oscillating reaction experiment?

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