The oxide of a metal that reacts with water to form a base.
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Harmful Chemicals Found In Food
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Why do copper products change color, and what is the name of the process?
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Features of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope
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Chemical Safety
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Varieties of garnet minerals
The most famous type of garnet stone is pyrope (flaming). This is the "oldest of garnets", with a dense red color, similar to the grain of an edible garnet. Pyrope has a variety called rhodolite - a stone of dense pink or pink-purple color, which sometimes has the alexandrite effect and is used in...
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Formula Unit
The smallest repeating unit of a substance. The molecule for nonionic substances
Percent Purity
The percent of a specified compound or element in an impure sample.
Chemical Periodicity
The variations in properties of elements with their position in the periodic table.
Heterocyclic Amine
Amine in which the nitrogen is part of a ring.
Substance
Any kind of matter all specimens of which have the same chemical composition and physical properties.
Anion
A negative ion, an atom or goup of atoms that has gained one or more electrons.
Hard Water
Water containing Fe3+, Ca2+, and Mg2+ ions, which forms precipates with soap.
Linear Accelerator
A device used for accelerating charged particles along a straight line path.
Polyprotic Acid
An Acid that can form two or more hydronium ions per molecule, often a least one step of ionization is weak.
Miscibility
The ability of one liquid to mix with (dissolve in) another liquid.
