In aqueous solution, the process in which a solid ionic compound separates into its ions.
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Why do copper products change color, and what is the name of the process?
Probably, every person wants to know, why over time the copper turns green and becomes bloomed. This is easy to explain: that film is called patina.
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Creating Malachite egg
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Harmful Chemicals Found In Food
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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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Interesting facts about metals
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Bond Order
Half the numbers of electrons in bonding orbitals minus half the number of electrons in antibonding orbitals. Bond order gives an indication to the stability of a bond. Also defined as the difference between the number of bonding electrons and antibonding electrons divided by two.
Film badge
A small patch of photographic film worn on clothing to detect and measure accumulated incident ionizing radiation.
London Forces
Very weak and very short-range attractive forces between short-lived temporary (induced) dipoles, also called dispersion Forces.
Moderator
A substance such as hydrogen, deuterium, oxygen or paraffin capable of slowing fast nuetrons upon collision.
Suspension
A heterogeneous mixture in which solute-like particles settle out of solvent-like phase some time after their introduction.
Polyene
A compound that contains more than one double bond per molecule.
Hydrate
A solid compound that contains a definite percentage of bound water.
Levorotatory
Refers to an optically active substance that rotates the plane of plane polarized light counterclockwise, also called levo.
Basic Anhydride
The oxide of a metal that reacts with water to form a base.
Hydrogenation
The reaction in which hydrogen adds across a double or triple bond.
