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Thank you for your help, i'll check out and hopefully I can learn some stuff from it.

Thank you for your reply, but what I'm looking for are general rules to follow (as opposed to specific), perhaps using the periodic table? An example of a rule (I just made this up off the top of my head): "The molecule with the least electrons will form a compound" If it were true then...

Perhaps someone could help me out with questions I have relating to this. How do you determine which chemical takes precedence over others? For exampe: if there was a mixture of bicarbonate and chlorine and I added sodium, would I have sodium bicarbonate or sodium chloride? H + Cl + F = HCl +...

"one of the aims of the SI system of units is to remove unnecessary units. Since volume is length x breadth x height, i.e length3(small 3, don't know how to type it though), there is no need for the litre and the SI unit of volume is the metre cubed (m3) which equal 1000 L" I'm sure I'm...

(1)How does the nuclear reaction in a power plant differ, from the the one that occurs in a nuclear bomb? (2)I understand how the bomb works, and how a nuclear power plant works. What I don't understand is: how do Uranium fuel rods boil water in a power plant? Do they actually detonate a sort...

Homework Statement How do I write equations on a computer? I need some help with some Physics equations. I am about to take a course. I have very poor math skills, so I am hoping to improve my confidence, while learning some interesting equations. I have included Boyles Law as it is...