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    Understanding Voltage: How Potentials Differ & Flow

    ah right. I learned about this years ago. i feel so foolish for forgetting. thanks
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    Understanding Voltage: How Potentials Differ & Flow

    If you asked me what causes humans to be lifted up a height in a skyscraper, I would tell you an elevator. I'm having trouble asking exactly what I mean, but how is there a constant voltage going through my house? Why are there always charges separated so that my appliances work? What causes...
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    Understanding Voltage: How Potentials Differ & Flow

    The concepts of current and voltage are not difficult for me to understand. What I am having difficulty understanding, is what causes it? What causes there to be a potential difference so that when I plug my toaster in, electricity flows through it? How is there constantly a potential...
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    Why Doesn't Electron Shielding Block RF Radiation?

    Short answer to the point and easy to understand. Thanks!
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    Why Doesn't Electron Shielding Block RF Radiation?

    I am watching this video; at the 8:20 mark it shows that a proton in a magnetic field will align with the magnetic field very easily if there is no shielding from electrons, and therefore will require energy to shift to the opposite spin state; makes sense to me. I also understand that when...
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    Catalytic Hydrogenation of Alkenes

    You = good at splainin stuff
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    Catalytic Hydrogenation of Alkenes

    Thanks I think I mostly get it now. But why does the alkane interact much more weekly? Because it doesn’t have a pi orbital?
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    Catalytic Hydrogenation of Alkenes

    Haha. Sorry for the billion questions In a short time frame, I was in a waiting room with nothing to do. I appreciate you. Ok. Let me see if I got this right: The H2 bond is strong, so the alkene can't supply enough energy to activate the reaction. However, the paladium has unpaired electrons...
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    Catalytic Hydrogenation of Alkenes

    “When an alkene is introduced to this system, the interaction of the out of plane metal orbitals and the π and π∗ orbitals causes the alkene to bend so that it's no longer planar. “ How does the alkene interact with the out of plane metal orbitals?
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    Catalytic Hydrogenation of Alkenes

    Also, how does the Alkene react with the hydrogen that’s bonded to the palladium? The reason it didn’t interact with the H2 is because the bonding orbitals were full and anti bonding orbitals were empty. But what about in the case of the palladium hydrogen bond? Isn’t that the same deal? Between...
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    Catalytic Hydrogenation of Alkenes

    You’re saying it’s stable? In your first reply in this thread you said “The reason the palladium doesn’t hold on strongly to the hydrogen is that the surface palladium hydride is not particularly thermodynamically or kinetically stable,”
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    Catalytic Hydrogenation of Alkenes

    I get the surface statement now, sorry, don't know why it was not clear to me the first time. However, why do these partially filled orbitals interact with H2 anti-bonding orbitals? Since this is an unstable configuration, why doesn't the H2 just ignore the palladium and stay as H2...
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    Catalytic Hydrogenation of Alkenes

    I really appreciate your help. I’m having trouble figuring out exactly what to ask unfortunately. What do you mean by out of plane metal orbitals? And why do those match up with anti bonding orbitals of H, meanwhile the alkenes don’t match up with the anti bonding orbitals of H?
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    Catalytic Hydrogenation of Alkenes

    Well the main issue is that I am self studying chemistry solely for pleasure and have only read one gen chem book and now I am 1/3 of the way through an orgo book. and i devote like 6 hours a week to this. So just overall my level of knowledge is low. I don't understand what you mean by "out...
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    Catalytic Hydrogenation of Alkenes

    Nice. Don't really understand much of that, I suck lokl
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