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How soluble is water ice in liquid H2S?
This seems to be ridiculously hard to research, as Google only wants to give me results about dissolving H2S in water (rather than the other way around)--and when I tried to get around that by looking ...
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Does oxyhydrogen require the presence of water to ignite?
I recently read a short story (fiction) where a major plot element was based on the expectation that a mixture of oxygen and hydrogen will not ignite unless some amount of water is present to get the ...
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Can there be oxygen dissolved in water in a hydrogen atmosphere?
I'm trying to determine (for a science fiction story) whether a certain type of planet could have a significant amount of oxygen dissolved in water (e. g. produced continuously by some aquatic ...
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Could a safe water ocean exist on a world with predominantly chlorine atmosphere?
I am researching for a Si-Fi book. Would a water ocean on a world with a predominantly chlorine ($\ce{Cl2}$) atmosphere be safe to touch? Would the chlorine over time saturate the water creating a "...
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Does Dean Kamen's Slingshot really filter virtually everything?
According to Dean Kamen (in the movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3242934/) and on the Net (http://www.popsci.com/article/science/pure-genius-how-dean-kamens-invention-could-bring-clean-water-millions)...
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Freezing all the water on earth with a seed crystal
I was recently reading the satirical, fictional book Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut. In this book, one of the major subplots is the invention of a mythical polymorph of ice called ice-9 in the book. In ...
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