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Estimating Surface Reactions - Liquid, Turbulent Flow
So, I need a method of estimating the influence of a surface (rate constant would do for a start), the idea is to estimate just Reactant + Surface -> Product in a turbulent liquid flow.
Now I am ...
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Prediction of surface atoms in molecule from its graph
If we are given a molecular graph i.e. al the atoms involved and their connectivity, how can we make reasonable prediction if the atom would lie in the surface or in the inner part. On way might be ...
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Solid hydrophilic transparant materials that don't dissolve in water
I am looking for hydrophilic transparant materials which are solid at room temperature and that don't dissolve in water. I need these for an experiment in which I condense droplets on a plate made out ...
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Stripeless cleaning of windows
Cross post: http://physics.stackexchange.com/q/56800/7433
Last week I was discussing with a friend how we thought the stripeless cleaning of windows is achieved when using a cleaner like Windex ...
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Potential diffrence between two graphite strips in NaCl solution
I have two identical graphite strips of dimensions 3.5cm by 1cm. Both are 3/4 submerged in aqueous NaCl solution (0.34mol/dm3, 2%wt) with a distance of 7cm apart. I attached crocodile clips to each ...
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Selectivity Coefficients of Ion Exchange Resins - Selectivity Reversal with TDS / Ionic Strength
I'm currently studying ion exchange resins and generally getting a bit stuck on some points of information which I do not fully understand / are not very well explained within the literature.
I ...
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Palladium hydride forming water and heat at room temperature
I just read that saturated palladium hydride, $\ce{PdH}$0.7, when exposed to oxygen will generate heat and water on it's surface, $\ce{4 H}$(Pd) $\ce{+O2}$(g) $\ce{\to 2 H2O}$(g, l).
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Kinetic energy of electrons emitted in Photoelectron Spectroscopy
In multiple sources (example), I found the information that the kinetic energy $E_k$ measured using (Ultraviolet / X-ray) Photoelectron Spectroscopy is given by:
$E_k = h\nu - B.E._F - \phi_{spec}$
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Treatment of copper (0) with sodium hydroxide
I recently made self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of alkanethiols on a copper substrate. After scrubbing off the $\small{\ce{Cu2O}}$ top layer and rubbing the surface with ether and ethanol, I let my ...
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What is the chemistry behind this “petrol from air” technology?
A recent news report in the UK claimed a breakthrough in making a petrol equivalent from carbon dioxide and water:
A small British company has produced the first "petrol from air" using a ...
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How do surfactants spread in the case of multiple materials?
For example, consider a pot of water with a drop of oil floating on it, with surfactants present in the water.
Will the surfactants in the water spread evenly across all three interfaces ...
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Retention of surface texture after combustion
Just some while ago I was burning a box of cardboard in my backyard and I saw a very curious phenomenon.
I saw that as the cardboard box started burning it started to curl. Up after a while as I ...
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What is the mechanism of APTES mono-layer formation on glass substrates?
The reagent APTES is a fairly common "ink" for microcontact printing, a technique that forms covalent bonds between the silanols found on the surface of the glass and the silane in the the APTES. It's ...
