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Excellent thank you. What is mechanism of their reaction? I have seen the mechanisms for oxides on water with both acidic and basic characters, electrostatics, etc... how without the polar molecules of water are they able to mediate a reaction? Is it just a matter of gibbs free energy...

How did the silicates form during the period in which a gas of silica coalesced into a ball of molten silicon? I thought silicate typically only forms in basic aqueous solutions, which clearly did not exist at this period.

Planckium, Feynmanium, Darwinium, Newtonium, Lavoisium or Diracium seem likely candidates for names if you ask me.

So I have been thinking through this. I am an amateur so bear with me but... Two opposite spin electrons will have a hamiltonian given by p^2/2m + mu(S1.S2) Or some equivalent constant in from of that. Clearly there are two energy states referring to opposite and same spin, in fact, the...

I've been watching Susskind's lectures on quantum mechanics and he mentions that the time taken for two electrons to entangle their spin is a function of their distance, which in itself determines the energy that is released when two electrons fall into a singlet state. Does anyone here know how...

Can someone answer a basic chemistry question here: what is the redox potentials of the zirconium-water reaction? Is it thermodynamically infeasible under standard conditions, or does the oxide coating merely form a high activation energy barrier ala TST?

http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2006/08/letter_from_grothendieck.html 'One story has it that Grothendieck is now convinced that the Devil is working to falsify the speed of light. Schneps ascribes his concerns with the speed of light to his anxiety about the methodological compromises...

How did he measue the proton velocity in the polonium-beryllium experiment? The only source with some description describes his using current as a means to do so - but sure that would require knowledge of the number of protons in order to ascertain the drift velocity?

With number 5 - how do you do synthetic division with an imaginary number?

Homework Statement If w is a complex cube root of 1, prove that x + wy + w^2z is a factor of x^3+ y^3 + z^3 - 3xyz, and hence factorise the equation completely. Homework Equations Complex cube root of 1 = -1/2 +/- 3^1/2/2 i The Attempt at a Solution Erm, I feel way over my head...