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What is the smell of 'burning' metal?
Awarded Jun 15 at 20:41
What is Q-carbon? Does it exist?
Awarded Jun 1 at 11:33
Which has stronger hydrogen bonds: water or ice?
Awarded May 1 at 5:55
Help me identify this glassware!
Awarded Apr 29 at 21:34
How does adding lemon juice to sugar make better caramel?
Awarded Apr 29 at 21:34
How does oobleck work?
Awarded Apr 29 at 21:34
What is d-orbital collapse?
Awarded Apr 29 at 7:18
Do Cyclohexane-1,3-diones Give Positive Haloform Reactions?
Awarded Apr 25 at 11:55
Thermodynamic stability of meta-xylene over ortho- and para-isomers
Awarded Apr 25 at 11:55
Can other substances be dissolved in a saturated solution?
Awarded Apr 25 at 11:55
What exactly is meant by 'multi-configurational' and 'multireference'?
Awarded Apr 25 at 11:55
What is charge shift bonding?
Awarded Apr 25 at 11:55
Comparing acidities of substituted and aromatic carboxylic acids
Awarded Apr 25 at 11:55
Why are some salt solutions coloured?
Awarded Apr 25 at 11:55
Why are the majority of cleaning solutions basic?
Awarded Apr 25 at 11:55
What is a good method to measure the redox potential of a cellular system?
Awarded Apr 25 at 11:55
What is the origin of the bactericidal properties of silver in water?
Awarded Apr 25 at 11:55
Symmetry lost in orbitals?
Awarded Apr 25 at 11:55
Storing hydrofluoric acid before the invention of plastics
Awarded Apr 23 at 12:31
Why do α-hydroxy ketones give Tollens' test? [duplicate]
Awarded Apr 23 at 12:31
What does the circle inscribed in a benzene ring represent?
Awarded Apr 23 at 12:31
Why is the minus sign (-) not allowed in reaction equations?
Awarded Apr 23 at 12:31
Is it possible for a substance to absorb a longer wavelength of EM wave and emit a shorter wavelength?
Awarded Apr 23 at 12:31
Stability of carbocations: CF3+ vs CH3+
Awarded Apr 23 at 12:31
Is HF the least acidic hydrogen halide?
Awarded Apr 23 at 12:31
Why does chlorine have a higher electron affinity than fluorine?
Awarded Apr 23 at 12:31
Is the ring or the chain chosen as the parent structure in octan-2-ylbenzene?
Awarded Apr 23 at 12:31
What makes carbon dioxide gas "sticky" in pipes?
Awarded Apr 19 at 14:12
Why does mercury have low melting and boiling points?
Awarded Apr 19 at 14:12
What is the role of ammonium chloride in the workup of a Grignard reaction?
Awarded Apr 19 at 12:19
Theoretical basis behind orbital correlation diagram for pericyclic reactions
Awarded Apr 19 at 12:19
For a given element do heavier isotopes form stronger bonds than lighter isotopes?
Awarded Apr 19 at 12:19
Why does sunlight cause colors to fade?
Awarded Apr 19 at 12:19
Why is there a difference in the colours of K₂Cr₂O₇ and K₂CrO₄?
Awarded Apr 19 at 12:19
What is the origin of the differences between the MO schemes of O₂ and N₂?
Awarded Apr 19 at 12:19
Why does hydrogen fluoride have a boiling point so much lower than that of water?
Awarded Apr 19 at 12:19
Is there such a thing as an acid without a hydrogen?
Awarded Apr 19 at 12:10
Why are Silicates solid while carbon dioxide is a gas?
Awarded Apr 19 at 12:10
Platinum group metals: Why are platinum and palladium great catalysts and not the others?
Awarded Apr 19 at 12:10
Why does the energy gap for π - π* transitions shrink with the size of the pi-conjugated system?
Awarded Apr 19 at 12:10
Please explain why dioxygen difluoride is so dangerous
Awarded Apr 19 at 12:10
How does NaCl maintain its crystalline structure?
Awarded Apr 19 at 12:10
Which equilibrium constant is appropriate to use?
Awarded Apr 15 at 16:46
How are SN2 transition states stabilised by adjacent double bonds and carbonyl groups?
Awarded Apr 7 at 4:56
Can heteroatoms with lone pairs be chiral centres?
Awarded Apr 5 at 17:40
Functional difference of Benedict's solution and Fehling's solution
Awarded Apr 1 at 17:46
Why does water dissociate to H3O+ and OH- rather than H+ and OH-?
Awarded Mar 31 at 2:36
Cyclobutadiene - Jahn–Teller effect or not?
Awarded Mar 24 at 12:32
Why do thiols have such a propensity for bonding with mercury?
Awarded Feb 25 at 14:09
Is the nomenclature "primary", "secondary", "tertiary", and "quaternary" carbon atoms limited to sp3 carbon atoms?
Awarded Feb 15 at 14:06
Physical intuition behind negative values for wave function?
Awarded Feb 7 at 2:10
Will alcohol or soap damage plastic or rubber?
Awarded Dec 24, 2023 at 5:21
How to determine number of structural isomers?
Awarded Nov 26, 2023 at 19:40
Is it possible to melt diamonds into a liquid?
Awarded Oct 15, 2023 at 19:37
How to calculate transition dipole moment from two known wavefunctions
Awarded Oct 1, 2023 at 22:12
Does IUPAC nomenclature have the ability to name all organic compounds?
Awarded Aug 29, 2023 at 19:36
What does lowercase r-s notation mean?
Awarded Jul 13, 2023 at 19:17
Is it possible for one specific atom in a molecule to have a non-integer oxidation state?
Awarded Jul 1, 2023 at 14:42
Does nitrogen inversion affect the basicity of amines?
Awarded May 19, 2023 at 14:55
Is sodium chloride really odourless? If yes, what do I smell?
Awarded May 2, 2023 at 8:33
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