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Is there a way to "remove" functional groups? I see a lot of pages online that show how you can change them, but not how to completely remove one from a molecule. Is it even possible?

Yeah, I think you're right, I changed the electrodes to carbon, which has eliminated the problem, now I'm getting H2 O2 at the correct places now. So what do you think happened? The chlorine was reacting with the iron forming iron (III) chloride?

So, today I was bored and decided to play around with some water and electricity. I took a 9v battery and attached 2 steel wires at both terminals, then I attached 2 steel screws to the ends of the wires. I used a bit of NaCl to speed up the process too. When I placed the electrodes in the...

I'm confused as to what the theory behind this is, I've checked on wikipedia, but it gives a rather convoluted explanation, can anyone clear this up for me? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid-base_extraction What is this method trying to isolate, only salts? Or is this a valid method for...

Do you guys think Friedrich Nietzsche was pretentious? Somebody I was talking with the other day brought this up, I've only read "Beyond Good and Evil" and that was a while ago, could someone refresh my memory?

It so happens that my friend also has the "Starting Electronics" one, I'll be looking into both of them.

I understand complex numbers, if it has complex analysis, I'm sure I'd be able to learn enough to get by. But is The Art of Electronics practical? Would it enable me to make basic electronics such as a simple calculator?

A friend of mine has the book "The Art of Electronics" that he said he would let me borrow,would that cover some of it?

I don't see a whole lot of information on their site. It has a lot of products but not a lot of information. It seems to be just programming electronics, not actually making them.

How do you know a soul exists?

So your saying I should study electrical circuits? Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_engineering" , there's a couple sub-disciplines that could fit what I'm looking for. So do cellphones also use micocontrollers? I'm not restricting this to JUST calculators, I just used a...

I can't find any books on electrical engineering though, all I found was stuff on circuits.

What subject/field am I looking at that deals with things alike to the following: When I take a basic calculator apart, I see several objects, a main circuit board (I think that's what it;s called) a screen and the solar panel. How do all of these things work to make the mathematical...

Is there any other way (besides experimentation) to know what chemicals react with other chemicals? Take this http://oxygen.chem.uidaho.edu/dschem276/Laboratory%20Experiments/Caffeine%20extraction%20from%20Coffee.pdf" for example, is there any other way to know that caffeine is soluble in water...

Thankfully, I didn't. What would a real chemistry site be?