Questions tagged [liquids]
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Spider-Man Polymer
I am currently working on a fun little project, trying to replicate Spider-Man's Web Shooters. With simple ropes this even works wuite, well, I have them rolled up as a coil and then shoot them out. ...
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Chemicals to increase surface tension of water
I want to increase the surface tension of water by 1.2 - 2 times. How about adding one or more chemical substances to the water that can possibily increase its surface tension by the desired amount? ...
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Water color additive that will maintain color when water is a thin film
I'm producing thin sheets of liquid (50 to 100 microns) from a nozzle and trying to photograph them. I think it would help if I could color the water. However, typically as water becomes more of a ...
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How to transfer Gel into liquid [closed]
We’ll know there are few easy method to make liquid into gel form
But whats the method for reverse it
To transfer gel into liquid form
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What happens with the boiling point of a liquid in a vacuum [closed]
This may be a silly question, but when I was reading my chemistry textbook, there was this following statement:
"A liquid boils when its vapor pressure equals the external pressure acting on the ...
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Liquid neon freezer?
Liquid nitrogen is approximately -330 degrees Fahrenheit. Liquid neon is approximately -413 degrees Fahrenheit. I want to know about if this type of freezer is easily possible in practice and if such ...
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Effect of pressure on viscosity of liquids and gases [closed]
My textbook says the following on viscosity and pressure:
increase in pressure decreases the viscosity of water but for other liquids it increases. Viscosity of gases does not change much
No ...
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How much electron hybridization and bonding occurs in liquid helium?
Helium is the only element which does not freeze at atmospheric pressure, and only forms a liquid at around 4 Kelvin due to weak van der Waals forces.
I'm interested in knowing roughly how much ...
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What are some other gases that liquify at around the same temperature as ammonia? [closed]
I am looking for gases that have a liquefication that falls within or on the edges of the liquefication range of Ammonia. I am mainly looking for gases that are comprised mainly of Carbon, Nitrogen, ...
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Is there any non-toxic and non-solvable-in-air liquid? [closed]
I want to heat the air with non-aqueous, non-toxic and non-solvable-in-air liquid (with very low relative pressure in air). Is there any such liquid exists?
It would be great if the boiling point of ...
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Water replacement for pressure-testing [closed]
Due to circumstance, our Data Centre build has some delays and it currently looks like we're going to have to perform a hydrostatic test of our sprinkler system with live computers in it.
As I have ...
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Liquid alternative to alcohol to lower density of water
I am trying to create a suspension of polypropylene particles in a water based liquid. I want the density of the liquid to be more than or equal to the density of polypropylene (855 - 946 kg/m3) so ...
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What happens when a super-critical fluid is compressed?
Suppose that I have some substance with a critical temperature of 20°C. That means above that temperature, the substance exists neither as a gas nor a liquid, but instead as a super-critical fluid. ...
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Are all volatile liquids combustible?
I realized that liquids like petrol, kerosene and even perfumes are combustible when they are volatile.
Could that be the reason why water is not combustible is because it is not volatile?
Are ...
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Which DFT functional is best for predicting macroscopic properties of molecular liquids?
Which DFT functional (KS-DFT, to be more specific) performs best at predicting macroscopic properties (density, surface tension, boiling point, relative permittivity etc.) of molecular liquids (...
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Boiling point elevation and liquid solutions
$\pu{1 L}$ of an aqueous solution of urea having density $\pu{1.06 g mL-1}$ is found to have elevation in boiling point $\Delta T_\mathrm{b} = \pu{0.5 °C}.$ If the temperature of this solution is ...
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What do the horizontal lines in a P-V phase diagram mean?
I have been studying phase diagrams of pure substances, and for a substance such as carbon dioxide for example, it's diagram looks something like this:
The horizontal lines in the liquid phase puzzle ...
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Why does bromine increase the viscosity of olive oil? [closed]
Does bromine bond to the carbon in unsaturated fatty acids and break the double bonds between oxygen and carbon? Does this increase the viscosity of olive oil?
Could someone give an elaborated ...
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What is the least dense liquid under normal conditions?
What is the least dense liquid under normal conditions, room temperature, one atmosphere of pressure, doesn't combust upon contact with air, also wouldn't kill a human just for being in the same room ...
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What happens when mixing elemental mercury with sodium hypochlorite solution [closed]
Say you spilled elemental mercury from a thermometer and used household bleach on it, what would be the reaction if any?
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Liquid Versus Aqueous States? [closed]
I am studying ionic equations and have encountered the statement of the phase of matter in the equation since ionic substances tend to react differently based on their phase.
I know that
(l) state ...
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Can a stoichiometric mixture of oxygen and methane exist as a liquid at standard pressure and some (low) temperature?
This answer to the question Pre-mixing cryogenic fuels and using only one fuel tank written by a non-chemist (me) begins with:
At STP:
LOX's boiling point is 90.19 K
Methane's freezing point is 90....
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Why does increase in pressure cause a increase in boiling point [closed]
When we increase the atomospheric pressure pressure above the solution , the boiling point of a solution increases. Why does this happen?
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Is sodium hypochlorite 100% concentrate possible?
Popular bleaching brands like Clorox contain liquid sodium hypochlorite in small concentrations, ranging from 5-12.5% (is this a mass/volume, mass/mass, or volume/volume concentrate?).
Is it possible ...
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Model of an ideal liquid in chemistry
In chemistry there are ideal models/concepts of ideal crystal, ideal gas and even ideal solution, but there is no model/concept of ideal liquid.
In physics (fluid dynamics, to be precise) there is a ...
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Ionic compound having highest solubility in water
Which ionic compound has highest solubility in water? I can find CsBr having highest solubility with 1230 g/L at 25 °C.
Note: compounds like ethanol are soluble to any extent in water, but they are ...
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Explanation of phase changing/solid and liquid water existing in the same container at same temp [closed]
I was trying to explain to a friend the other day why when ice and water are in the same container, the water is 32 degrees Fahrenheit or 0 celcius, but not frozen, because the ambient temp is above ...
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Properties of azeotropes
Consider two liquids with vapour pressures in pure form being ${P^o}_A$ and ${P^o}_B$. ${P^o}_B >{P^o}_A$ which implies liquid B is more volatile. If the liquids formed an ideal solution, then a ...
