Natural Science Forum / Chemistry / General Chemistry / September 2007

Why does soap and detergent smell the way they do.  None of their ingredients
even come close to the finished product.  Can anyone tell me?
Thanks.

Hi everyone, I'm interested in ways to purify bismuth preferably at
home (I'm a hobbyist). I'm interested in making bismuth crystals but
require very pure bismuth to get nice looking crystals. I'd like to
keep from specialty ordering material and purify my own bismuth out of

In my book I see that various samples of elements with different
amounts of mass have the same amount of particles, for example a mass
of 26.98 g of Al has 6.022 * 10^23 amount of atoms in it (1 mol) and a
mass of 63.55 g of Cu also has 1 mol of atoms inside, etc. etc

I use severals products in swimming pool water:
- Carbonate sodium Na2CO3 as pH balancers <50g,
- Sodium bisulfate HNaO4S as pH balancers <100g,
- sodium dichloroisocyanurate dihydrate as disinfectant water treatment

I'm slightly used to thinking about polar solutions in polar solvents.
I have no mental pictures at all about solutions in non-polar solvents.
I have Atkins' Physical Chemistry (1979) which helps a little, but not
much. What should I read to get a thorough treatment of the subject

I thought this was a group for chemistry and not aholes posting this
nonsense.
 shouldnt the moderator be taking care of this.

There has been talk that rec.pyro is dead.  Why, because of this
delinquent that has inundated this group with sporge.
It is not only this Google group that has been attacked though, others
have seen the same thing, yet nobody seems to be able to do anything

a_plutonium wrote:

Coating Ti onto other metals is a challenge for sure. There are many
unsuccessful attempts to plate them.
In our manufacturing process, we used a lot Ti sheet metal to
manufacture anodizing racks (www.anodizingracksonline.com). The big

When frying/braising meat I frequently have problems with sticking and
burning because i try to use as little fat as possible. I know that
salt can raise the boiling point of water reducing scorching but salt
alo can denature some proteins. My experience seems to indicate that

I was just wondering why no one has developed a material for roads
that doesn't get all messed up in cold weather.

Does anyone have a link to a VSEPR model of a phosphate
functional group? Thanks.

I simply don't know if partial charge even in simple
molecules as (for example) H-F (hydrofluoric acid)
is an 'observable' in the corresponding Schroedinger
wavefuntcion (my expectation is not). Nevertheless,

On the contrary of the rest of the world, I need a lot of C02 (Carbon
dioxide)... something like 30,000 kg daily... Now there are
recuperators that are very complex and expensive, that you can attach
to chimneys... you can also capture CO2 from manure fermenting... does

    I have an expensive silver bromide-covered silver anode I
would like to salvage to replate w/silver chloride.  What's the best

allowed).