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Bicarbonate concentration in the RO permeate
I am facing a challenge since long ago, but have not been able to find a suitable solution for it. Please share your thoughts if you have the knowledge or experience in this area.
I am running an RO ...
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Does copper(II) hydroxide dissolve in ammonia solution?
According to University of Oregon — Chemistry Interactive Demonstrations and Educational Resources — Copper-Ammonia Complex, the equilibrium constant for the formation of copper(II) hydroxide is ...
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Why does balancing the reduction of dichromate(VI) to chromium(III) require four water molecules among the products?
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Balance the following chemical equation using oxidation numbers:
$$\ce{Cr2O7^2–(aq) + HNO2(aq) –> Cr^3+(aq) + NO3–(aq)}$$
Solution (in Swedish)
$$\ce{\overset{+VI}{Cr}_2O7^2–(aq) + H\...
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How would I find the molarity/concentration of a gas using pV = nRT?
The problem I'm working on is:
At $\pu{1100 K}$ and a total pressure of $\pu{1 atm}$, $\ce{SO3}$ is $75.0\%$ dissociated.
$$\ce{2SO3(g) <=> 2SO2(g) + O2(g)}$$
Assume $\pu{1.00 mol}$ of $\ce{SO3}...
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Phase diagram of ammonium hydrosulfide, a volatile salt
Salts (ionic compounds) usually have low volatility due to the strong ionic bond.
However, there are exceptions. Smelling salts decompose and release ammonia gas.
What is "volatile"?
If a ...
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Does solubility product dictate predominant precipitate from the solution with several ionic compounds?
While removing temporary hardness through boiling, magnesium bicarbonate will give $\ce{Mg(OH)2}.$ $\ce{Mg(OH)2}$ predominates over $\ce{MgCO3}$ as the solubility product $K_\mathrm{sp}$ of $\ce{Mg(OH)...
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Solubility of lead carbonate
Lead nitrate reacts with sodium carbonate to form lead carbonate, if sodium carbonate is in excess will the white precipitate of lead carbonate dissolves ? Like in lead nitrate reaction with excess of ...
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Can phosphorous penta hydroxide [P(OH)5] exist? [closed]
I was looking at the oxyacids of Phosphorous and it is given that (in Wikipedia article of "Phosphorous acid"), some of these acids (Eg: $H_3PO_2$ and $H_3PO_3$) exist in a dynamic ...
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Why does balancing the oxidation of dichromate(VI) to chromium(III) require six iron atoms?
The problem:
Balance the following chemical equation using oxidation numbers:
$$ \ce{Fe^2+ + Cr_2O_7^2- -> Fe^3+ + Cr^3+} $$
What I have tried:
$$\ce{\overset{+II}{Fe}^{2+}(aq) + \overset{+VI}{Cr}...
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Products formed on reaction of aqueous solution of iron(III) nitrate nonahydrate
Crystalline iron(III) nitrate nonahydrate, Fe(NO3)3.9H2O, has a very pale violet color. When added to water, the crystals dissolve to form a brown solution. Treatment of this brown solution with ...
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Reaction kinetics exercise for hydrogen iodide synthesis
The rate constant for the reaction of hydrogen with iodine is $\pu{2.45E-4 M-1 s-1}$ at 302 °C and $\pu{0.905 M-1 s-1}$ at 508 °C.
a. calculate the activation energy and Arrhenius preexponential ...
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Why is it that in a buffer solution the equilibrium concentrations may be assumed to be the initial concentrations? [duplicate]
Considering the Henderson–Hasselbalch equation,
$$\text{pH} = \text{p}K_a + \lg \frac{[\ce{AcO⁻}]} {[\ce{AcOH}]}$$
$$\text{p}K_a = \lg \frac{[\ce{AcO⁻}][\ce{H⁺}]} {[\ce{AcOH}]}$$
Why are the values ...
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What are the dissociation constants of hydronium and hydroxide ions? [duplicate]
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The answer to How to calculate Ka for hydronium and Kb for hydroxide?, water was regarded as solvent once and base (or equivalently acid) once while citing Reference 1 (1986) and made no ...
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Why does ligand substitution occur when OH- is a better ligand than NH3?
$$\ce{[Cr(H2O)3(OH)3](s) + 6NH3 -> [Cr(NH3)6]^3+ + 3H2O + 3OH-}$$
When excess $\ce{NH3}$ is added to triaquatrihydroxychromium(III), why does ligand substitution occur when $\ce{OH-}$ is a better ...
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Do complexes of a metal distribute in between the water and an organic compound layer?
My original question is one that is stated in the title, and I also have some side questions too.
I came across this question where you have a CuSO4 aqueous solution. Then you take an Ammonia aqueous ...
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