If I'm trying to put an answer together where should I do that? I'd guess answer the question but delete the answer. So the answer could still be worked on, but others wouldn't be bothered by trying to read a half-finished answer.
Part of the problem is that I don't have any editor that will al...
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My sister and brother-in-law have been making colloids for many years - Silver, Gold, Zinc and Copper. They use these themselves and also supply naturopaths. I should add that they are retired and enjoy excellent health.
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I don't know anything about silver colloids. But an answer that encourages ingestion of silver, as well as "sloshing it around in the mouth with DMSO", is questionable.
I have been recently studying about all the types of bonds and hybridisation, VBT, VSEPR, MOT etc. But I am finding it difficult to draw the structure of different molecules and decide their geometry, so I need some helpful advice about how I can avoid getting confused in chemical bonding, or rat...
I asked him to write the products of the reaction of HF with KOH.
I really am not trying to be condescending, I am not saying that he is stupid for not knowing it, I just wonder, why is he learning how to do acid-base equilibria calculations when he can't write a balanced equation for the reaction... ._______.
@orthocresol ok.. First of all, his first choice makes no sense! second of all, he can't even write a molecule formula correctly! it should be KF, not FK!
@TanMath well, I do not care much about whether it is KF or FK.. although obviously we are used to seeing KF... we do see the anion put first sometimes, such as in CH3COONa, and it is strictly speaking not wrong.. unless there is some IUPAC rule that I don't know of...
@TanMath Yeah, but if there was a rule that said cations have to come before anions, then we would write it NaOOCCH3 or something like that. That still shows you where the Na is attached to.
@TanMath No... not in aqueous solution at least...
I can't access the 2013 recommendations, but Section P-65.1.1.1 of this provisional draft states that formic acid, acetic acid and benzoic acid are preferred IUPAC names.
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The Periodic Table
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