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Creating Chloramines
I'm currently conducting some testing related to indoor pool environments.
Here I believe, airborne chloramines are responsible for stress corrosion cracking in austenitic stainless steels.
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How to explain the acidity difference between these β-diketones?
In DMSO, pentane‐2,4‐dione (1) and 1,3‐diphenylpropane‐1,3‐dione (2) possess nearly identical $\mathrm{p}K_\mathrm{a},$ whereas 1‐phenylbutane‐1,3‐dione (3) is almost 1 $\mathrm{p}K_\mathrm{a}$ unit ...
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How to calculate the pH value of a Carbonate solution?
I read the similar questions suggested when submitting my question but they didn't help me How can one calculate the pH of a solution? How to calculate pH of the Na2CO3 solution given ambiguous Ka ...
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Why is the pH of this ammonia solution more acidic than another ammonia solution?
I made two similar ammonia solutions in different ways, and they resulted in different pH, but i'm not sure why.
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Added 5.84 g NaCl to a 500 mL flask. Then added 10 mL 25% ammonia solution. ...
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comparing basic strength of toluidine isomers [duplicate]
I would like to compare the basicity of ortho and para isomers of toluidine.After comparing the pKb values online the order of basic strength is:
p—toluidine> m—toluidine> aniline> o—...
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Do azaindoles primarily exist in anionic form at physiological pH and act as bases?
I am reading an article where they describe azaindoles (bicyclic pyridine/pyrrole rings) as being basic with $\mathrm{p}K_\mathrm{a} \approx 4.6.$
I suppose at physiological $\mathrm{pH}$ and after ...
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Will concentration of sodium hydroxide affect the result of chicken feather hydrolyzate if i don't standardized it?
The title of the paper:
Isolation and characterization of keratin from chicken feathers https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0002792
Here is the method:
Keratin was isolated by dissolving 5g of chicken feather ...
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Efficacy of Intramolecular Friedel-Crafts reaction on =o, c=o bonds of ring structures? [closed]
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Inquiring to understand the efficacy of intramolecular Friedel-Craft like reaction on stability on the ring structures with =o, c=o bonds.
Keen to know if ring structures are challenged
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Why does the pH of a weak acid not increase by 1 when diluted by a factor of 10? [closed]
Strong acid pH increases by one unit when diluted by a factor of 10, but why do weak acids not?
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What are the compounds in oxygen and carbon dioxide indicator solutions that gives their color?
My brother had some leftover oxygen and carbon dioxide indicator solution for one of his take-home experiments from school, so he let me have them. I want to use them for an experiment and write out ...
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Why is sodium bicarbonate added to lower the pH? [closed]
I use salicylaldehyde, chloroacetic acid and sodium hydroxide for the synthesis of o-formylphenoxyacetic acid. In the procedure it is written that after the reaction I need to add sodium bicarbonate ...
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How does the pKa of a neutral molecule inform the protonation state of its positively charged molecule?
Let's say we have some neutral molecule A and its protonated form, A+. The pKa of molecule A is known, but we do not know the pKa of molecule A+. Can the pKa of molecule A+ be determined only knowing ...
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Can a universal indicator turn colorless?
I learned that litmus paper could be bleached by chlorine to turn colorless. I’m wondering if any chemical substances can react with all the components of a universal indicator such that it turns ...
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Why do weak acids like ethanol not act as a strong base in water?
In water, ethanol has a $\mathrm{p}K_\mathrm{a} = 15.9$ which means that its $\mathrm{p}K_\mathrm{b}$ is $-1.9$. Which implies that all weak acids in water are in fact strong bases. But this is not ...
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Can solid acids and bases have pH values? If not, how are they classified as acids or bases?
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$\mathrm{pH}$ is the aqueous concentration of $\ce{H3O+}$ or $\ce{H+}$ ions in soution. I would not say that ice lacks $\ce{H3O+}$ and $\ce{OH-}$ ions as ice's structure would ...
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