A solid compound that contains a definite percentage of bound water.
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From history we know that the idea of creating crystal belongs to the British: they were the first to add lead oxides to the charge material, and as a result got glass with unusual “voice”, transparency and sparkling faces. Classical crystal contains 24% of lead oxide, but there are products with a higher content of up to 30%.
Covalent Compounds
Compounds containing predominantly covalent bonds.
Polar Bond
Covalent bond in which there is an unsymmetrical distribution of electron density.
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
It is impossible to determine accurately both the momentum and position of an electron simultaneously.
Extrapolate
To estimate the value of a result outside the range of a series of known values. Technique used in standard additions calibration procedure.
Catalyst
A substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without being consumed itself in the reaction.
A substance that alters (usually increases) the rate at which a reaction occurs.
Equation of State
An equation that describes the behavior of matter in a given state, the van der Waals equation describes the behavior of the gaseous state.
Free Radical
A highly reactive chemical species carrying no charge and having a single unpaired electron in an orbital.
20 interesting chemistry facts
20 interesting chemistry facts.
Doublet
Two peaks or bands of about equal intensity appearing close together on a spectrogram.
