Hydrolysis of esters in the presence of strong soluable bases.
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Interesting facts about metals
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What are Compound Microscopes?
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Varieties of garnet minerals
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Diamonds Are Forever
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Features of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope
The scanning tunneling microscope (STM) invented by Heinrich Rohrer and Gerd Binnig in the 1980s still manages to do a great job today and competes with more advanced microscope types. The scanning tunneling microscope is used for studying the surface atoms that are found on various materials. The...
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Interesting facts about metals
Metals have been used by people since ancient times. All the time the process of obtaining them was improved, useful alloys of various metals appeared. Let’s look at interesting facts about metals.
Ideal Gas
A hypothetical gas that obeys exactly all postulates of the kinetic-molecular theory.
Galvanizing
Placing a thin layer of zinc on a ferrous material to protect the underlying surface from corrosion.
Faraday
One faraday of electricity corresponds to the charge on 6.022 x 1023 electrons, or 96,487.301 coulombs.
Inner Orbital Complex
Valence bond designation for a complex in which the metal ion utilizes d orbitals for one shell inside the outermost occupied shell in its hybridization.
K Capture
Absorption of a K shell (n=1) electron by a proton as it is converted to a neutron.
Ionization Isomers
Isomers that result from the interchange of ions inside and outside the coordination sphere.
Temperature
A measure of the intensity of heat, i.e. the hotness or coldness of a sample. or object.
Concentration
Amount of solute per unit volume or mass of solvent or of solution.
Distillate
The material in a distillation apparatus that is collected in the receiver.
