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That's a good point. I am curious to know the answer, too.

One thing that might help you in the future is to know that carbon usually does not form ionic compounds (examples are beyond the scope of what you are doing in this problem). The oxygen does not dissociate from carbon, because CO2 is covalent. Even though you may not have heard of carbonic...

Thanks so much!

I also want to mention that without chemistry, we would not understand how to synthesize the drugs that we discover. The process of preserving chirality in a molecule and being able to produce it from raw materials through using numerous steps and various protecting groups is very intricate...

This looks promising... http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2002/011602/Toolset_teams_computers_to_design_drugs_011602.html

I don't think that it is bologna. Are we allowed to quote published journal articles on this website? Or is that a copyright violation? I would be happy to comment on some studies.

[(1+cd)/(1+cd)] - (1/(1+cd)) This actually reduces back to cd/(1+cd), right? Because the 1-1=0 and cd is the only thing left in the numerator. So what would prompt me to know that I should change cd/(1+cd) into [(1+cd)/(1+cd)] - (1/(1+cd))?

Wait a minute! I think a lightbulb just went off...

So if I work backwards, the step before 1-(1/(1+cd)) could have possibly been [(1+cd)/(1+cd)] - (1/(1+cd)). What would have led me to that step or is that not the correct step backwards?

I wouldn't think that smell would be affected because, my understanding is that molecules of the food you smell attach to sensors which sends a signal to the brain. Since molecules are so small, you would still get a very large number of molecular scent signals being sent to the brain. Another...

I am not sure if this helps, or is even steering you into the correct direction, but when you bubble CO2 into water, you usually get carbonic acid. Is it the carbonic acid or the CO2 that reacts with the calcium hydroxide? You might want to think about that, too.

I am trying to figure out an overall reaction constant, but I am getting stuck on the math behind the problem. I am at this point in the problem: [Co(H2O)6] = [Co] x (k[H+]/(1+k[H+])) And I am trying to mathematically get to [Co(H2O)6] = [Co] x (1-(1/(1+[H+]k))) When you ignore the...