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When God created the animals, He said to them: "Go forth and multiply". But the adders complained: "We can't multiply, we're adders." So God built a table out of logs. He put the adders on the log table, and the adders multiplied.

In the immortal words of Basil Fawlty: "A satisfied customer! We should have him stuffed!"

Maybe a bit of an over-simplification, but: Chemistry is about the manipulation of electrons. A chemical transformation involves changing the bonding arrangement of atoms to each other by changing the arrangement of the electrons around and between the atoms, e.g. by ionisation or the formation...

No it isn't. That contradicts the previous definition.

Probability is 10*0.1^9*0.9^1.

Yes, exactly. The nonsensical result means that the assumption that all the ice melts is wrong. For a problem like this, the best way to start is by calculating 2 quantities: (i) The amount of heat released by lowering the temperature of all the water to 0oC; (ii) The amount of heat required to...

No it doesn't; it gives a negative number. If cw >> L, then Tf = 100/7 = 14.28. So I suspect you used 4,184 instead of 4.184 for cw.

Wagner's Ring in a nutshell.

I can coordinate the movements of the right hand, but not (or only with difficulty) the left. Is this common?

Then eleven of them go off to greet a friend called Jude.

If you've had a hard drive, try a nice bike ride...

The "Insert Symbol" button seems to have disappeared from the ribbon at the top of the box.

For future reference, the letter B in square brackets is code for bold text. If you want a B in square brackets in your text, include a space, as [B ]. (Sorry, I don't know the answer to your question.)

Glad to be of help.