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Help Identifying Chemicals
I was trying to isolate elemental bismuth from pepto bismal (bismuth subsalicylate) using the process seen here but after I added the HCl, instead of getting a pink foamy substance I got a white ...
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Reduction and re-oxidation of TiO₂
I'm having a hard time finding data about an experiment that I know has been done a bunch of times:
I have a sheet of single crystal rutile $\ce{TiO_{2}}$ (110) that I want to reduce to various ...
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Which theta should be taken from xrd pattern for calculating Scherrer's equation
We use scherrer's equation to calculate crystalline size of a particle.
But which theta should we take from xrd pattern for this calculation.
For example
Above picture shows the diffraction ...
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How are crystals formed from a gas?
In crystallization, crystals are formed from liquids by cooling.
How can crystals be formed from a gas by cooling?
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What is burst nucleation?
Can you tell me what is a burst nucleation process, and how can it be used for synthesising uniform nanoparticles?
Can you also provide (if possible) any links to papers or materials regarding ...
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Why are there no edge dislocations in a face-centered cubic (FCC) lattice?
In crystallography, we know that the Burgers vector is parallel to the dislocation direction in a screw dislocation, and perpendicular in a edge dislocation.
Furthermore, I have in my lecture notes ...
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How is the electron “trapped in the crystal” in irradiated NaCl?
Pennsylvania State University provides irradiated NaCl (180,000 rads of gamma radiation) to teachers for a very entertaining demonstration. The salt is orange after irradiation. When it is placed on a ...
