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Why did my Tris-HCl buffer have pH 1 instead of the expected pH?

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Why is fire considered a chemical reaction?

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Molecular weight of unknown iron compound with 0.2g sample

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Why carbon formation depends on precise nuclear energy matching

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Balancing Equations: Nitrogen Dioxide + Water = Nitric Acid

  • recon
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Finding Liquid Nitrogen for Experiments: Where to Order

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Why Study Chemical Thermodynamics and Ninja Gaiden Boss Patterns?

  • Tatum
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Calculating Equilibrium Concentrations for a Gas Equilibrium Problem

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Empirical formula from combustion analysis of C, H, N compounds

  • Pepsi24chevy
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Can the Hendersen Hasselbach equation be used for higher pH values?

  • rockind78
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What factors can affect the efficiency of soxhlet extraction?

  • Patty
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How Can I Measure Free Energy and Enthalpy of Reactions?

  • gee
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What is the Reaction Mechanism for the Haber Process?

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Why is the Aldehyde Group So Reactive in a Tollen's Test?

  • caribjewel
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Water Proofing matches & Nobel Prize in Chemistry

  • Aquafire
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Seeking Assistance for Roy Dunlap's 1950 Gunsmithing Recipe

  • wingnut
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Why is gravitational attraction ignored in the hydrogen atom Hamiltonian?

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Geospheric chart of the elements

  • Loren Booda
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Have you ever had an explosion in your microwave?

  • Monique
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What's the function of the Ca(H2PO4)2 in the baking powder?

  • BlackCatXIII
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Understanding Real Gas Behavior: Deviations from Ideal Gas Equation

  • rumaithya
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Electrical and optical properties of Cadmium Sulphide

  • BLUE_CHIP
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Calculate Mass of Paradichlorobenzene for .05 Molal Solution

  • babbagee
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Molecular Shapes: What Does CO3^-2 Look Like?

  • decibel
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Where Can You Find Drug Design Tutorials Online?

  • nbann5000
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Why Chlorine has Higher Electron Affinity than Fluorine

  • jimmy p
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Why Does Potassium Form Superoxide with Excess Oxygen?

  • garytse86
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Deprotonation of Acids: Learn Reactions & Info

  • Louis
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What is Bayer's test and how does it distinguish alkanes from alkenes?

  • Louis
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NaCl & Amylase: Rate of Reaction & Why?

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HNO3 + NH3 Reaction: Is it NH4NO3?

  • dduardo
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Calculate the molarities of CH3COOH and CH3COO-

  • surahyot
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Can throw away batteries be charged?

  • ShawnD
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What is the Product of the Organic Reaction?

  • JDK
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How Much Apple Juice Do You Need for Daily Vitamin C?

  • babbagee
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Chemical formula for chloroethyl

  • MC363A
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Role of Metals in Living Systems

  • xxpsychoxx
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DIfferent Amounts of Oxygen in Combustion?

  • JDK
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Molarity Questions: Calculate Resulting Solutions

  • Kdawg
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Is There a Definitive Guide to Naming Nonorganic Compounds?

  • dduardo
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Why do I never see anything made out of a lithium compound?

  • Little Dump
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Chemical equation simplification

  • Integral0
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Solubility of Gases: Why Decreases with Temp Increase?

  • London Kngiths
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Using Hess's Law to find enthalpy for 2C(s) + O2(g) → 2CO(g)

  • Integral0
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Chem project, just need some starting advice

  • Hessam
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Laws of Effusion Explained: Textbooks Don't Help

  • JKLM
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Calculating Molar Concentration of Diluted HCl Solution

  • fish
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Hydrocarbon Structural Diagrams

  • JDK
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Origin of Avogadro's number

  • Link
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What is the "Thread" theory of smallest atomic parts?

  • Pollywog
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Mol Ratio of Na2CO3 + HCl Reaction

  • xxpsychoxx
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Can potassium chlorate be used like sand to put out fires?

  • gotzmlk
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How do we use UV values in spectral analysis to identify molecules?

  • babbagee
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Balancing Ethene Combustion Reaction (C2H4 + O2)

  • walker
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Root Mean Squared: Definition & Formula

  • JKLM
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Element Properties: Sodium & Potassium Melting Points

  • babbagee
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Chemistry and physics prerequisites for chiropractic school

  • Dan Monaghan
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Why do acids dissociate in solution?

  • jimmy p
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Electron Dot Diagram and Structural Formulas

  • JDK
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The Atomic Mass - Calculating the Weight of Gallium Atoms

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How Do You Calculate the Mole Fraction of NaCl in a Solution?

  • Integral0
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Is recycling really that cost efficient?

  • jimmy p
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How to Determine the Molecular Formula of Oxyanions?

  • mmapcpro
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Chemistry topics with ethical implications for presentation

  • thunderfvck
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Oxidation + Reduction Half-Reactions

  • JDK
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Hagfish slime as an option to plastics and other materials?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Is There a Limit to the Mind's Capacity for Knowledge?

  • Dooga Blackrazor
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Activate Atoms: Ionizing or Rubbish?

  • jimmy p
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Making chlorine gas with HCl & KMnO4

  • thunderfvck
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Wavelength of electromagnetic radiation

  • babbagee
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Utlilizing Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures

  • Integral0
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How can I effectively balance chemical equations for an upcoming exam?

  • kchan
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Calculate the mass of Iron(III) chloride

  • finaltomorow
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Speed and rate of combustion (in car)

  • thunderfvck
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Where can you use protium, tritium and deuterium?

  • Thallium
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Selenium Oxidation State in Redox Reaction

  • ShakeWell
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Carbonic acid formation mechanism

  • thunderfvck
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Explain why some noble gases such as Xe will form compounds

  • gotzmlk
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A question on soxhlet extraction

  • biochemist
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Ammonium and Clorox: A Major NO NO?

  • Miles
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Considering that fats have long hydrocarbon chains, what do theses

  • gotzmlk
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A question on enantiomeric excess

  • biochemist
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Molarity of Sulfuric Acid Solution: 15.206 M

  • fish
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NMR Theory and Analysis Problems

  • jimmy p
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Why do certain drugs need to be freebased and form HCL salts?

  • thunderfvck
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How to analyse an infrared spectrum diagram

  • biochemist
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Why is barium hydroxide preferred for detecting CO2 and in titrations?

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How Does Solvent Polarity Impact Absorption and Fluorescence Characteristics?

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How Do Enthalpy, Entropy, and Gibbs Free Energy Determine Chemical Reactions?

  • biochemist
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Oxidizing Primary Alcohol to Aldehyde in Methylenechloride & DMF

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NADH, why strong electron donor?

  • Monique
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What Are the Chemical Properties of Cornstarch and Vegetable Oil?

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What is the structure of Ch2Cl2 and which atom would be central?

  • gotzmlk
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How to go about Synthesis and Decomposition of compounds

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Reoxidation of TPAP by NMO After Oxidation of Alcohol

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