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actually, i was referring to how catalysts increase the equilibrium from being as left as possible to the point where there is virtually no reaction to somewhere to the right because of their lowering the activation energy. same thing works in reverse for inhibitors. perhaps. what do you want in the bomb? more importantly, what do you want it for?

that wasn't directly his fault, but then again, his army represents him. not doing anything about it is directly his fault.

could you back that statement up with examples?

is it ok if i dont use "'" or capitalize anything?

heh, i showed that to yt a few pages back but he didn't believe me

oh come now you didn't notice my connotation? it was in more of a joking manner than a serious one.

he's just jealous i, for one, can't wait for the next lesson. cheers!

stupid authoritarians

so have i. we already finished this debate and decided that Li(s) replaces K in KNO3 and any K compound

china could crush the us now by not giving us loans. also, china isn't nearly as socialist or authoritarian as it used to be, so they aren't all "docile workers who don't question authority"

the whole idea of terrorism is increased out of proportion by the media. if i really wanted to, i could mass produce trinitrotoluene in my basement and blow up a large building. just about anybody could do so also. it's not hard whatsoever. at the same time, you must realize that people generally aren't that stupid.

aw man! that book is out of print now! i dont have one:(

good call, yt; i failed to mention the whole organic thing. never mix an inorganic peroxide with an organic peroxide; deadly stuff.

come now, i thought this was over! next time i obtain some lithium metal i'll record a video of me reacting it with KCl, then add the K metal to H2O and show you the purple flame.

nah they weren't

that's impossible to judge according to the heisenberg uncertainty principle.

soz; i didnt look at the question really; i just read "titration" and your ungodly random molar value and thought "hmm, looks like a good ol' MaVa=MbVb." H2O2 and what permanganate source?

not to digress, but was nasa talking about FNO3 or C(NO2)4 by any chance?

of course they didn't all fight to the death; japan still exists. i was merely stating that there were sherman carpets and many did fight to the death. i am not demonizing anybody and i am sorry if you feel that i am.

yeah; most metals replace the H in acids. Al does. Al powder does it especially exothermically due to its greater surface area. as for a conc acid, car batteries do work, but the acid isn't too conc and you have a great deal of electrolytes dissolved in it. a good (and especially dangerous if you screw up) way to get a conc acid is to buy "muriatic acid" (HCl) and distill it. if you get too conc, it will begin to fume. be forewarned that as temperature increases, the HCl(g) gets less soluble in H2O so you will not have even 95% HCl (not that you'd want it). another way is to buy the acid and wait 25 years (like my parents did) then pass it down to your child when he/she asks about it. mine fumes when i open it. mine is incredibly conc and can be defined as a superacid. example; i made a solution of 250mL H2O and 10mL conc HCl the other day and it had a pH of 1. took half my reserves of finely crushed CaCO3 to neutralize it after i was done. if you want to have a bit of crazy fun, i suggest slowly adding some H2O2 to H2SO4. DO NOT ADD IT TO A HALOGEN ACID. i've heard you can get 40-45% H2O2 at salons. to make it more conc, freeze it; the H2O2 freezes at -11C while H2O freezes at 0C. a word to the wise; don't get H2O2 above 70% or it will become hell on ice for you. seriously; it is so unstable that it will explode on contact with, say, a piece of dust. no joke. mixing H2O2 and H2SO4 will make "pirhana bath" (peroxymonosulfuric acid). it is to be treated with much respect, as it isn't terribly stable. do not expose it to much heat or you will regret it. touch it and your hand will burn off rapidly. seriously; this stuff will attack just about anything. but hey, all in the name of fun and chem, right?

every reaction has a foward and reverse reaction. an example could be a synthesis and a decomposition reaction. every reaction has an equilibrium point where the rates of its foward and reverse reactions are equal. variables, such as addition of catalysts and/or inhibitors, temperature, pressure, and presence of a solvent determine where equilibrium will be. CO2+H2O<->H2CO3 is your reaction. usually, the reverse reaction is favored.

1% of it does at stp, but the equilibrium is waaay slanted towards the decomp than the synth.

so lucky ;p it is a mediocre reducing agent. it makes a glorious flash powder. it reacts well with water, but hey if youre looking for a nice bang, add it to some conc acid and run away. you can make it at home; just grind some aluminum sheets to dust. KMnO4 is a better oxidizing agent than KNO3 actually.

the japanese government is to blame for a few things. ever heard of sherman carpets? translation: children strapped with explosives who hurled themselves in front of american sherman tanks. the civilian population of japan were all sworn to fight to their deaths for the motherland.

a mixture is any volume that contains multiple chemicals in it. an example of a mixture is aqueous NaCl in H2O. another example is a glass of a triglyceride and water which would be called a heterogeneous mixture (you can see the two chemicals). a homogeneous mixture would be a glass of milk; you cannot see the butter globules floating or the water but rather you can see a mixture that is white throughout. soda water (i hope youre speaking of water with CO2 bubbling out of it) is a mixture because there is CO2 you can visibly see coming out of a liquid. this is a heterogeneous mixture.