In Joseph Conrad's Youth: A Narrative, set in 1876, a 400-ton barque ship, the Judea, is sent to Java Head to transport 600 tons of coal. Although various delays occur during its journey, the coal it is carrying spontaneously combusts while off the coast of Western Australia. The crew attempt to ...

I am currently studying the textbook Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy: Principles and Spectral Interpretation, second edition, by Peter J. Larkin. Section 10. Calculating the Vibrational Spectra of Molecules, says the following: In the case of vibrational spectroscopy, the polyatomic molecule is ...

What is the origin of rotational barrier in ethane? In most organic chemistry textbooks, we learned that it's originated from steric repulsion between two methyl groups. But recently I heard that there also exists other perspective which explains rotation barrier using hyperconjugation model. So ...