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• Why do bases feel slick in nature?
  
• How does plastic benefit and harm the environment?
  
• Question #42299
  
• Why does the Antarctic have a large hole in the ozone, when no one even lives there?
  
• Woollen clothes are biodegradable but nylon clothes are not. Why do you think is the case?
  
• Question #edc6b
  
• The half-life of cobalt-60 is 5.2 years. Find the time it would take for a sample of 0.5 grams to decay to 0.1 gram?
  
• What volume of a #1.5*mol*L^-1# solution is required to deliver a #3.0*mol# quantity of solute?
  
• Question #f678c
  
• Why is an alkyl group is denoted by #"R"#?
  
• What is indicated by the #methyl-# prefix?
  
• Question #c2f50
  
• Why is cholesterol in the blood?
  
• One solution contains 55 g #NaCl # per liter. and another contains 55 g #KCl# per liter. Which solution has the higher molarity? How can you tell?
  
• Is combustion a physical or chemical change? Why?
  
• Why can't we react francium with water?
  
• What safety equipment should always be used when working with glass or chemicals?
  
• Why do bases feel slippery?
  
• What is the difference between an electrophilic substitution reaction and a nucleophilic substitution reaction?
  
• Question #ce94f
  
• Question #68599
  
• Is there a membrane that stop liquid water but let Methane gas in?
  
• How would I convert the following to ppm? 3 grams of lead found in 30kg of soil.
  
• Question #2d155
  
• What is laughing gas called? ?
  
• Question #0ae32
  
• What is the pH of a #1*10^-5# #M# solution of sulfuric acid?
  
• What is the difference between compounds and mixtures?
  
• Question #b65fa
  
• What is the name of the compound # P_2O_5#?
  
• Question #ece79
  
• On a mountaintop, it is observed that water boils at 90°C, not at 100°C as at sea level. Why does this phenomenon occur on the mountaintop?
  
• What are some examples of colloids and suspensions?
  
• Why alkenes called olefins?
  
• What is a neat liquid?
  
• Question #39df6
  
• What is formal charge and how is it determined?
  
• Question #af560
  
• Question #5f334
  
• Question #1e971
  
• Question #ebf5e
  
• Is uranium a fossil fuel?
  
• A #"standard solution"# is #"aqueous"#, #"unsaturated"#, #"a mother solution"#?
  
• When you blow air into a balloon, not only there will be increase in it's pressure but also it's volume. Is it a violation of Boyle's law?
  
• Silver emits light of 328.1 nm when burned. What is the energy of a mole of these photons?
  
• Question #e788e
  
• Question #3c6f1
  
• Any 3 reasons for profuse use of plastics although it is harmful?
  
• What is an example of a colloid?
  
• How do you convert 2 tons to grams?
  
• What volume of concentrated #HCl# contains a mass of #125*g# #HCl#?
  
• How does the mass of the substance effect the specific heat value?
  
• Question #f92a2
  
• Why are resonance structures necessary?
  
• Question #2a118
  
• Can a rubbing alcohol conduct electric current?
  
• What's one thing you like about Socratic?
  
• Question #147e5
  
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of emulsion polymerization as compared to bulk and solution polymerization?
  
• What are the products when Alka Seltzer dissolves in water? Is it water and carbon dioxide, i'm not really sure with that
  
• Question #ffab1
  
• All of the reagent solutions have a concentration of 0.2 M. This means that there is 0.2 mole of dissolved substance per liter of solution. What will be the concentration after mixing, assuming you use equal volumes of each solution?
  
• How many grams of water could be made from 5.0 mol #H_2# and 3.0 mol #O_2#?
  
• Question #2a46a
  
• Question #8af18
  
• Question #80627
  
• How much energy (in joules) is required to raise the temperature of 200g of liquid water from 20c to 50 c?
  
• What are the differences between hydration, hydrolysis and condensation?
  
• How can I explain the enthalpy of a system?
  
• Does pure water have a concentration?
  
• Does pure water have more H+ ions than OH- ions?
  
• Question #87757
  
• Question #73746
  
• How can you can tell the difference between a solution and a clear colloid?
  
• Consider a mixture of water, sand, and oil. How many phases are present? How could you separate mixture into individual substances?
  
• What is the highest point on earth?
  
• What states of matter can flow?
  
• Question #a9349
  
• Is a suspension a homogeneous or a heterogeneous mixture?