Why is absolute zero unattainable?

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Why did the Rio 2016 pool water turn green?

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Do symmetric hydrogen bonds in neutral molecules exist?

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Why is pyrimidine less basic than pyridine?

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Is alcohol really a solution?

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Is Hexafluorocyclohexane the Most Polar Small Molecule?

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Why can't Pd/C and H2 reduce both the alkene and carbonyl portions of α,β-unsaturated carbonyls?

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How does Walter White make pure crystal meth using a non-stereospecific reaction?

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How can the dipole moment of carbon monoxide be rationalised by molecular orbital theory?

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Which of the following is the more stable carbocation?

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Do vinyl cations adopt a classical or non-classical structure?

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Unknown glassware

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What would follow in the series sigma, pi and delta bonds?

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What is the OCNH2 group called?

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Formal nomenclature for fulvene

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Nomenclature of acid anhydride

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Is [7]сirculene aromatic or anti-aromatic?

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How were old style stereographic structures produced?

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Can cis and trans isomers have widely different flash points?

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Models for diastereoselectivity in nitronate additions

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Why are some elements more abundant than others in the universe?

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Configuration of chiral center in cocaine

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Double bond crossed lines representation

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What is the significance of the 2 and 4 positions in 2,4-DNP?

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Why isn't the silicon analogue of benzene flat?

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Using table salt as a way to limit humidity in an unoccupied house

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How can 32 g of Gatorade powder contain 33 g of carbohydrates?

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Mechanism for Amino-Imidazole Ring Fission

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Identification: was this gallium or mercury from broken thermometer?

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How does this catalytic cycle work?

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Sulfinate R/S configuration

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Why doesn't the SeO2 oxidation of ketones stop at the hydroxyketone stage?

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Natural Bond Orbital analysis: Significance of stabilization energy determined by 2nd order perturbation

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Is there a preferred way of naming the resonance hybrid in keto-enol tautomerism?

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What are the practical differences between the various DMSO oxidations (Swern, etc.)?

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Which is the most acidic proton of (3Z)-3-ethylidenecyclopent-1-ene-1-carbaldehyde?

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What are the meanings of dotted and wavy lines in structural formulas?

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How to assign E/Z configuration according to the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog rules when subsituents differ only by stereochemistry

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Why are the C-C bonds in benzene closer in length to double bonds than single bonds?

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Relative stability of cis and trans cycloalkenes

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Jahn-Teller Distortions in Square Planar Complexes?

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NBO diagrams versus MO diagrams

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Does O2 have a color in the gas phase

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Ortho-effect in substituted aromatic acids and bases

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Which carbon(s) in cyclohexene have the highest electron density?

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What does gamma in gamma-oryzanol mean?

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How to rationalise with MO theory that CO is a two-electron donor through carbon?

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Help turning an epoxide into a single alcohol, OH

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Bonding in Square Antiprismatic Compounds

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Superscript open circle notation in formula

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Why is nitrosobenzene electrophilic on O in organocatalytic oxygenations?

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What is the origin of the maximum in rotational heat capacity?

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How many times can we recycle one sheet of paper?

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Thermodynamic and kinetic products - carbocation stability

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Why is MP2 failing to calculate proper IR frequencies for [Co(CO)4]- and [Fe(CO)4]2-?

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Photoionisation microscopy of hydrogen - where are the p orbitals?

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Trend in atomic radius for noble gases

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Why don't hydride shifts occur with hydrohalogenation of 4-methyl-cyclohexene?

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Does trans-decalin really have a plane of symmetry?

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I can't choose the set of 3 chemicals with each of which Si will react (out of 5 possible sets)

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Carbocation stability order

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Primary carbocation in addition of HBr to ethylene?

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Propose a chemical formula for the white solid that forms during the initial stages of the reaction of Sn with benzyl chloride

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Why does the ink on my whiteboard move?

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Are Lithium bicarbonate and​ Magnesium bicarbonate both soluble in water?

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Derivation of the Orgel diagram for octahedral d2 complexes

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Bonding in diatomic C2, a carbon-carbon quadruple bond?

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Sp5 hybridization in cyclopropane?

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MO Theory: Why do hydrogen and lithium bond, but hydrogen and helium don't?

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Why is NaCl3 possible?

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Stability Comparison between the Tropylium and Tricyclopropylcarbinyl Carbocation

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What is the structure of trifluoromethanesulfonic acid in the gas phase?

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Why does bromine add to a double bond instead of a triple bond if both are present?

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Dipole moments of pyrrole and furan

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Enantiotopic hydrogens in cyclopropanone

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What metal is this?

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What is the relation between surface tension and initial molecular harmonic?

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Is 1,2-dihydronaphthalene aromatic?

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Are the bonding orbitals in methane equivalent - photoelectron spectrum

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Is this structural representation of chlorotoluene correct?

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Why isn't the side chain of arginine totally protonated at low pH?

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What is the molecular structure of the fragment ion m/z 161 of rosmarinic acid?

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Manuals for a Cahn TG-171 Thermogravimetric Analyzer

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Treatment of allylic alcohol with thionyl chloride: why is the product rearranged?

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Longest chain IUPAC rule

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What will be the possible major product(s) on heating this primary alcohol i.e. 9-fluorenylmethanol with (conc) H2SO4?

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Conductivity as a function of acid concentration

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Is this heterocyclic boron molecule aromatic?

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Most stable conformational isomer of 3-methoxycyclohexan-1-ol

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Comparing the experimental and calculated UV/vis spectra for ethene

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Reaction of potassium cyanide with 2-(chloromethyl)furan

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Why doesn't this β-hydroxycarboxylic acid undergo dehydration upon heating?

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Why is the melting point of magnesium oxide higher than aluminium oxide?

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Can lead-acid batteries release CO? Or can a CO sensor detect gasses other than CO?

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Can metals have a net negative charge

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Alkylation of conjugated nitriles - regioselectivity

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Internal Cannizzaro reaction of phenylglyoxal

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How to think of solvated electrons?

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What should be the pKa and IUPAC name of this compound?

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Space filling model for nitrogen molecule

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How is the numbering in phenylpropenes?

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Experimental verification of the field effect

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Regioselectivity in Carbometallation

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Retrosynthesis of a lactone

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Orbital correlation diagram for the cleavage of cyclopropylmethylene carbene

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Mechanism for chloromethylation of benzene

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Can nonpolar molecules exhibit dipole-dipole forces?

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Grignard reagent reaction mechanism: Which bond breaks during the decomposition of the adduct?

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Clarifications about the mechanism of the Wittig reaction

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Comparing basicity of imidazole and 2-imidazoline

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Ring chain tautomerization of hydroxyacetone

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Nomenclature problem, when would ring be parent?

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Exocyclic vs. endocyclic double bonds in E1 elimination

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How can I tell which parts of this example drug are necessary parts of its pharmacophore?

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Stability of isomers of N4O

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Addition of HOBr across C=C

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Regioselectivity in heterocycle formation

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Is Pyrene Aromatic?

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Comparing the reactivity towards aromatic electrophilic substitution reaction

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