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Haven't been able to find the answer anywhere IRL yet, so I thought I'd see if someone in the PhysicsForums could help me with this one. When doing SEM/EDS (EDX/EDXS) (~equivalent to x-ray fluorescence) analysis it looks as if my europium containing samples contain copper as well, which'd...

You could start with heating the different sweeteners in an oven at a certain temperature and note the differences before and after: do they look burnt? No need to taste then. Do they look the same as before? You might try and taste if they still taste sweet. Beware: I don't know anything about...

OK, I just calculated for a triply capped trigonal prism that there is just one radius ratio: 0.73 For a dodecahedron I calculate 0.83 as the minimum radius ratio (for cation-anion interactions) but this leaves four out of eight coordinating atoms at almost twice the distance (as described...

Is it true that there should be two distances from a dodecahedrally coordinated cation to the two types of coordinating atoms? When I calculate what the octahedron should look like assuming that all anion-anion distances are equal I will get two different cation-anion distances: if all...

Where did Pengwuino go? I just want to ask you (and maybe Nerro as well) (or Moonbear more scientifically) what will happen if people like Pengwuino and Nerro travel across a time zone? Will you still like the same cycle with regard to the clock or will your cycle be shifted corresponding to...

No, d) Al(H2))6Cl3 should definitely be d) Al(H2O)6Cl3 which means I think it is just hydrated aluminium chloride AlCl3.6H2O (aluminium chloride hexahydrate). But if that's not the same thing, then I'd have to call Al(H2O)6Cl3 hexa-aquaaluminate chloride. I think b) is ammono not amino. amino...

You first state that P_f >>P_i and then you go on saying that the pressure is decreasing. Which statement is the true one?

I really don't see the problem. You get an expression P2/P1 that is unitless for obvious reasons - the units cancel out on division. If P2/P1 = x then P2 = x times P1, P1 having a (arbitrary) unit of pressure like bar, kPa, atm, psi etc. and x being unitless. The only thing I wonder about is how...

This sounds really good, but also too complicated to find anything specific (/ too extensive to read it all and become almost all-knowing :wink: ) (No chance of you telling me what happens with aluminium on contact with chlorinated solvents? :wink: :wink: ) So they give out "standards" that...

kanato! you seem like someone getting the picture with the linear algebra involved in orbital theories! have you seen any different linear combinations of the d orbitals than the usual xy,yz,zx,x2-y2 and z2 set? Hope this is not too OT... but I would like to see what it looked like if one...

Also do check if your university subscribes to any e-book! It's an opportunity one shouldn't let pass by.

Hi! Is silicon inert? i.e. can I clean it from deposited films with e.g. HNO3 and H2SO4 without etching the silicon itself? What about amorphous carbon?

OK, if the formulation "will convert to grey tin" should be interpreted as over time, maybe not even within some millennia, but it will happen, then the procedure sounds right and you need only thermodynamical data.

Well, here you spoilt the opportunity to first pedagogically ask why the poster connects the release of CO2 to ionicity, followed by a discussion (trying to make the poster learn by being confused since we ask him/her if he/she really believes in a certain thing - or in the opposite :devil: )...

No, rather something stating: silicon - stable towards ..., ..., ... gold - attacked by aqua regia (formation of soluble complexes) etcetera Not that I checked the book, but your reply as well as the book's title give me the impression that this is more a book about corrosion principles...