Hi, I've been trying to look up the effects of density and humidity on the speed of sound, and I've been finding conflicting results. Some websites have stated that increased humidity will increase the speed of sound because of decreased density in the air, but wikipedia's speed of sound article...
I'm reading about osmosis, and the textbook I'm reading states "osmosis of water is not diffusion of water: osmosis occurs because of a pressure difference" and then goes on to state that osmotic pressure is the driving force of osmosis.
I had previously just understood osmosis to be the...
So is ClO4- called perchlorate simply because there is no ClO5-? I understand how perchlorate would be named relative to chlorate, and so on, but I'm trying to figure out why the naming for the other polyatomic ions I mentioned had 4 oxygens for the "ate" names. But for chlorate, the form with 3...
Hi, I was reviewing the polyatomic ions, and on the third row of the periodic table they seemed to follow a pattern going from left to right on the periodic table. For example:
Silicate = SiO44-; phosphate = PO43-; sulfate = SO42-
For row 3 on the periodic table, it looks like each...