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clinton on minimum wage increases when he was running for his first term, "[it's] the wrong way to raise the incomes of low-wage earners." and yes, he was absolutely correct.

maybe because the men and women in iraq made a choice to join the military? comparing the two simply isn't realistic.

i agree 100%. I've been taking mainly scientific classes for the last 3 years and was surprised at how conservative both the students and the teachers were, as i had always heard about how liberal colleges are. now this year i took a bunch of social science classes and I'm bombarded with...

ee = %(+) - %(-) assuming the (+) enantiomer is predominant. also, there is no excess of the (-) enantiomer because there is only an excess of the (+) enantiomer (see the assumption above). just think of it as if the lesser enantiomer shades out an equal percentage of the predominant...

yeah it's used to attract bees to a previously stung spot, so if it's on your skin and there are a bunch of bees around, run :wink:. also the synthesis itself is kind of boring so you didn't really miss much.

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it could also be a variety of ring structures.

how come they don't count optical isomers? if they did C7H16 would have 11 isomers correct?

hmm i don't really know if there's a mathematical formula (probably would be a waste of time), but if you think you're repeating yourself just try flipping the structure in your head, then try to match it with any of the structures you have already written down, if none match it's a new isomer...

i guess if you say that god is conscious it wouldn't really matter "when" he created the universe because the answer is simply "when he felt like it". however your question on what god would be doing before is just mind boggling. maybe some day we'll know; then again, maybe we won't . as...

FeCl3 + 3PhOH ----> Fe(O-Ph)3 it's the iron chloride test for phenol groups :smile:. as for the name, i don't know off hand :wink:.

i was just saying that it's clear that silicone is not simply Si-O-Si-O..., which is what i said in the first reply. i never said "it's clear by the valence that silicone needs a methyl or some other alkyl group". please don't put words in my mouth... and yeah silicon is more abundant in...

it's clear when you look at the valence of silicon and what's sitting right above it in the periodic table :smile:. however it's not 1/10 as versatile or abundant as carbon, which is why we don't see silicon based life anywhere around here .

well yeah of course, except it doesn't need to be methyl groups.

silicone is a polymer of alternating Si and O bonds.