Recent content by ChrisWhewell

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    Is Nitrate Polar or Non-Polar? Understanding Molecular Properties and Solubility

    hydrogen bonding and entropy effects contribute to the Gibbs free energy of the process of dissolution. Its thermodynamically favorable for it to dissolve, and there is also a kinetic pathway available. What more could one want ? :)
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    Trying to make Gasoline from scratch, figuring it out.

    Just build a table-top Fischer-Tropfsch reactor. I mean, some guys build model railroads... Question is, are any chemists that sick so as to build scale-model chemical plants ? All we need is one eccentric billionaire chemist to fund the museum. :) I agree with the previous writer's...
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    Undergrad Magnetic field effect on resonance

    In a parallel or series circuit comprising an inductor and a capacitor, is the resonant frequency value of the circuit affected by subjecting the inductor to a magnetic field ?
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    Graduate How Does Forcing Magnets Together Affect Spatial Energy and Distortion?

    How can the distortion of linear space be measured ?
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    Graduate How Does Forcing Magnets Together Affect Spatial Energy and Distortion?

    hooke's law F=kx, can integrate to calculate the work from given displacement limits, but I'm wondering about what, if anything, happens to the space between the magnets.
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    Graduate How Does Forcing Magnets Together Affect Spatial Energy and Distortion?

    I'm curious to know how the space between two magnets arranged so their like poles are forced to be nearer to one another is distorted. Is the energy in the space between such poles at a higher state than the surroundings, in an amount proportional to the force exerted in bringing the magnets...