budullewraagh

oxalates are reasonably toxic, so i suggest you be moderately careful with oxalic acid, lest you precipitate oxalate salts in your bloodstream.

edta is ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid you can alter concentration by adding/removing solvent.

you can make one. i know of someone who made a birkeland-eyde reactor at home

in what? calcium cations? add some. calcium metal? add some. at saturation point? heat the solution, pressurize if solvent is volatile. learn how to post, man

"And in response to budullewraagh - I was unsure of the other products besides chloroform, so I looked it up and thats what I found. You are probably right though, so I will remove that bit from my post." well, it just makes sense, as acetone is a methyl ketone in two places. i could be mistaken, but i believe it is true. "So it WILL work w/ HCl? That makes me happy. H2SO4 is really hard to find in new york without a ton of buffers in it." i live in new york and i have a good lot of sulfuric acid. order it online. if you don't want to, however, HCl will work, but you won't necessarily observe high yields. "heard you just have to boil acetic acid with your alcohol and distill the product and theres your ester." well, you could, or you could just add a dessicant (just make sure it isnt, say, barium hydroxide), or do neither. if you want the pure ester, you could distill. vacuum distillation sounds about right for this sort of thing. "Btw, what ester is created between Isopropyl alcohol and acetic acid? iospentenyl acetate?" no, you'd end up with isopropyl ethanoate. "Thats the basic procedure but its a bit more delecate then that, it also dosen't have to be acetic acid it can be and carboxyl group." interestingly enough, one doesn't necessarily need a carboxylic acid to perform an esterification reaction. consider sarin, the isopropyl ester of methylphosphorofluoridic acid. or nitroglycerin, the ester formed from nitric acid and glycerol. a note on isopentyl ethanoate: it's a pheromone for bees. so unless you want to get raped by a swarm of bees, you may want to keep it indoors. just another note; perhaps it's me, but the only alcohols i have access to are (apparently) methyl, ethyl and isopropyl, and the only carboxylic acids i have access to are (apparently) ethanoic and 2-hydroxy-1,2,3-propanetricarboxylic acid (citric). unfortunately, these don't provide a good variety of smells. anybody know of other OTC alcohols/carboxylic acids? if not, i may have to make some:\

just a note on esterfication; out of curiosity, i once used fuming HCl, 20% methanol and 15% ethanoic acid to make methyl ethanoate. after a year sitting in a 60mL bottle, it still smells great. surprisingly i actually obtained great yields.

the substituent with the greatest total mass is connected to the 1 atom. ex: 1-ethyl, 3-methyl cyclohexane

well it all depends on the person taking the test. a math kid is going to find bc calc to be easier than somebody who isnt much of a mathematician

h2o2 synthesis is really impractical for the home lab. theoretically, one could possibly do it, but it would be remarkably difficult and would require a plasma arc.

well, in benzene, it doesn't matter. in fact, same goes with every cyclic organic molecule that has the same substituents branching off

oy, the stench of vomit. most alcohols and carboxylic acids smell awful anyway "CH3COCH3 + 6 NaClO -> CHCl3 + CH3COONa + 2 NaOH + 3 NaCl" consider the above. haloform reactions involve nucleophilic substitution; the oxidation of methyl ketones to carboxylic acids. propanone is a methyl ketone on both sides of the center carbon, so actually that should yield the sodium salt of carbonic acid and two chloroform molecules/propanone. in addition, one could use the pure halogen and hydroxide to do the same reaction. anyway, esterfication is fun, and it's easy to figure out the success of your experiment. just be careful not to smell your product too much, as i've found that they cause massive headaches. you could try something with organometallics, although it's very difficult to succeed. careful with things like silver acetylide though. i wouldn't suggest you try that. i have a book in .pdf format on the synthetic use of metals in organic chemistry, so if you want it, just message me. what sort of thing do you want to do with organic syntheses? there are so many options. if you tell me what sort of thing you want to do, i can give you some advice

the chem ap was easy and i didnt even have to take the class bc calc is pretty brutal at my school, although everyone gets 5s on the exam, so i guess it's just the way we teach it. however, ap physics supposedly is the most difficult class at our school. it depends on who teaches it. the ap physics b and c exams are supposedly very difficult, compared to other exams. of course, the b is probably difficult because we don't have a class that entirely prepares us for it

"(many similar of which can obviously be found in the Northeast)" do tell of them. also, i'd like to add that i don't believe that 40 years has changed everybody to a sort of all-inclusive ideology. "overall culture that's "still recovering from the Civil War"." i never said anything of culture, so i guess you actually are putting words into my mouth. "Your statistics, in comparison, are cherry-picked to show a specific pair of failures in the SE and a specific success in the NE." actually, i already addressed this in a number of ways. i didn't even use california or new york as examples. massachusetts isn't the greatest we have, not by a long shot. louisiana isnt the worst you have, not by a long shot. i only used alabama to show the extreme failure of the education system in alabama at the expense of children, many of whom are the descendants of slaves. "There may be a slight advantage in public education in the Northeast. " no, the advantage is actually quite significant. please see http://www.greatschools.net "You've failed to support your assertion with anything other than cherry-picked statistics and politically irrelevent extremist groups with tiny memberships." with regard to the stats, see above. a little known fact: throughout the history of the united states, before emancipation, the average southerner owned approximately 0 slaves. "- Thanks for helping me support my claim that "You'd be hard pressed to find a more ignorant fool than a yankee who's confident in his knowledge that liberalism equals righteousness and that the northeast is the center of the civilized world."" that is both false and irrelevant. " - "it's unfortunate, but undeniable that overall, the south lacks sufficient funding for their school systems"" you have debunked that statement? show me some statistics. "- "it's unfortunate, but undeniable that a great number of southern districts refuse to begin "american history" until the late 1860s" (see mine and Mokele's posts)"" two personal accounts say absolutely nothing. "- "it is unfortunate, but undeniable that southern schools appear to have the tendency to place a lesser emphasis on the importance of academic merit"" this is impossible to prove directly, and you have yet to "debunk" it.

i wouldn't call that book the definitive source of reason. the transformation of the south from "solid democratic" (ie, racist regionalist elitist wealthy and racist regionalist uneducated easily persuaded sharecroppers) to "solid republican" (ie, not as racist but still bursting at the seams with people unaesy about the fact that their great-great grandparents owned slaves, were rich, and had the fist of power crush them, and still filled with people with confederate flags) was actually just the affects of the populists. founded as a sort of agrarian revolt, the populist party found its base in the western farmers, who opposed the gold standard. in 1896, the democrats, under william jennings bryan, adopted many of the populists' views and the populist party, for all intents and purposes, dissolved. when the democrats adopted the populists' views, the great conversion occurred and the south became a solid republican region. of course the change affected all. it wasn't just the south that changed, you know, so don't get too full of yourself. now, as for education, i have "http://www.psk12.com/rating/index.php" as a source. it is the "Public School Rankings Index." unfortunately, for some statistics, i would have to pay $40/year, so bear with me. unfortunately, florida does not ranks by "passing" or "failing" and only rates based on their own scale, competing with other schools in florida. tennessee only reports the statistics of those who are "advanced" in a subject. Virginia (elementary school): "Rank School Division 3rd Gr English Pass 3rd Gr Math Pass 5th Gr English Pass 5th Gr Math Pass Total Graphs 1 Arlington Traditional Arlington 91.7 97.9 95.8 93.8 379.1 2 Tuckahoe Henrico 93.3 98.1 93.9 90.3 375.6 3 Bettie Weaver Chesterfield 91.6 95.4 95.4 90.8 373.3 4 Nuckols Farm Henrico 92.0 98.8 96.0 85.5 372.4 5 Short Pump Henrico 84.8 96.4 99.1 91.5 371.8 6 Jamestown Arlington 89.9 96.6 93.4 91.8 371.8 7 Shady Grove Henrico 95.2 93.3 93.0 87.7 369.2 8 Canterbury Woods Fairfax 89.7 96.2 93.4 86.8 366.1 9 Gayton Henrico 92.0 95.5 97.5 78.0 362.9 10 Churchill Road Fairfax 88.6 91.4 93.3 88.5 361.7 11 Fox Mill Fairfax 92.7 97.1 92.1 79.0 360.8 12 Clover Hill Chesterfield 88.6 95.2 95.0 80.9 359.7 13 Mantua Fairfax 91.7 94.4 89.7 83.3 359.1 14 Waterford Loudoun 90.3 96.8 92.9 78.6 358.5 15 Sleepy Hollow Fairfax 76.9 96.2 94.0 90.0 357.1 16 Spring Hill Fairfax 84.0 92.1 94.5 83.5 354.1 17 Maybeury Henrico 80.7 89.3 93.3 90.0 353.2 18 Robious Chesterfield 87.6 91.7 91.5 80.5 351.3 19 Great Falls Fairfax 77.3 89.1 97.1 87.5 351.0 20 Haycock Fairfax 79.1 88.4 94.9 88.5 350.8 21 Kent Gardens Fairfax 82.1 92.6 86.1 86.1 347.0 22 Glen Allen Henrico 86.1 90.1 85.9 83.8 345.9 23 Bon Air Chesterfield 89.8 92.9 88.0 75.0 345.7 24 White Oaks Fairfax 80.2 90.1 91.1 83.7 345.1 25 Hunt Valley Fairfax 87.5 92.0 88.4 76.7 344.7 26 Navy Fairfax 85.5 98.5 84.2 75.8 344.1 27 Seaford York 79.4 91.2 94.5 78.1 343.2 28 Fairhill Fairfax 80.5 95.2 86.7 80.4 342.8 29 Coventry York 79.3 88.8 91.7 82.8 342.7 30 Ashlawn Arlington 80.6 89.5 91.4 80.0 341.5 31 Raleigh Court Roanoke City 87.3 87.3 90.2 76.5 341.3 32 J. B. Watkins Chesterfield 80.9 90.1 89.8 80.3 341.1 33 Lincoln Loudoun 64.0 76.9 100.0 100.0 340.9 34 Taylor Arlington 80.0 80.0 97.5 82.5 340.0 35 Carver Henrico 84.6 87.5 91.7 75.9 339.7 36 John B. Dey Virginia Beach City 81.6 90.1 86.9 81.0 339.5 37 Willow Springs Fairfax 80.4 90.2 86.5 82.2 339.3 38 Wakefield Forest Fairfax 79.3 84.5 87.7 87.7 339.2 39 Springfield Park Henrico 85.6 83.6 91.9 77.8 338.9 40 Kingston Virginia Beach City 76.5 83.3 91.4 87.0 338.3 41 Union Mill Fairfax 80.9 92.2 82.5 82.5 338.1 42 W. W. Gordon Chesterfield 81.2 86.3 91.9 78.0 337.4 43 Sunrise Valley Fairfax 82.2 84.7 91.5 78.9 337.3 44 Mountain View Roanoke 76.1 82.6 95.1 83.3 337.1 45 Wolftrap Fairfax 84.8 90.2 87.3 74.7 337.0 46 Sangster Fairfax 79.6 86.4 90.9 78.5 335.4 47 Poplar Tree Fairfax 82.6 94.6 83.5 73.2 333.9 48 Forest Edge Fairfax 82.4 90.1 84.1 77.0 333.6 49 C. M. Bradley Fauquier 71.8 89.0 91.1 80.2 332.1 50 John Kerr Winchester City 78.4 78.4 90.4 84.6 331.9 " Virginia (middle school): "Rank School Division 8th Gr English Pass 8th Gr Math Pass Total Graphs 1 Kemps Landing Magnet Virginia Beach City 99.3 98.6 197.9 2 Cooper Fairfax 90.7 93.0 183.7 3 Longfellow Fairfax 90.3 92.2 182.6 4 Franklin Fairfax 88.1 88.5 176.7 5 Lake Braddock Secondary Fairfax 87.8 88.5 176.3 6 Irving Fairfax 86.2 87.2 173.5 7 Frost Fairfax 87.8 85.5 173.4 8 Byrd Henrico 87.0 85.4 172.4 9 Rocky Run Fairfax 86.6 84.1 170.7 10 Tuckahoe Henrico 84.4 84.6 169.0 11 Midlothian Chesterfield 85.9 83.0 169.0 12 George Mason Falls Church City 84.0 84.9 169.0 13 West Point West Point 87.1 81.4 168.6 14 Thoreau Fairfax 83.6 84.5 168.0 15 Swift Creek Chesterfield 80.7 86.2 166.8 16 Williamsburg Arlington 84.2 79.5 163.7 17 Short Pump Henrico 85.1 77.8 163.0 18 Blue Ridge Loudoun 82.8 79.7 162.5 19 Cave Spring Jr. High Roanoke 80.1 82.3 162.3 20 Highland High Highland 87.5 72.1 159.6 21 Lake Ridge Prince William 83.6 75.3 158.9 22 Key Fairfax 79.2 79.6 158.8 23 Robious Chesterfield 87.0 71.6 158.6 24 Moody Henrico 77.1 81.3 158.4 25 Robinson Secondary Fairfax 82.2 76.1 158.3 26 Lanier Fairfax 78.7 79.6 158.2 27 Lylburn Downing Lexington City 75.5 82.4 157.9 28 Thomas Eaton Hampton City 84.8 73.1 157.9 29 Swanson Arlington 82.8 74.8 157.6 30 Poe Fairfax 82.3 74.3 156.6 31 Great Bridge Chesapeake City 80.6 76.0 156.6 32 Stone Fairfax 76.5 79.9 156.3 33 Hughes Fairfax 77.5 76.7 154.2 34 Hidden Valley Jr. High Roanoke 77.5 75.8 153.3 35 H.H. Poole Stafford 79.1 73.2 152.3 36 John N. Dalton Int. Radford City 75.5 75.9 151.4 37 Poquoson Poquoson City 81.0 70.2 151.3 38 Seneca Ridge Loudoun 78.4 72.3 150.7 39 Farmwell Station Loudoun 78.5 72.2 150.7 40 Warrenton Fauquier 79.0 70.7 149.8 41 Daniel Morgan Winchester City 79.9 69.8 149.7 42 Hickory Chesapeake City 77.4 71.5 149.0 43 Jack Jouett Albemarle 76.2 72.7 148.9 44 Northside Roanoke 80.3 68.6 148.9 45 Blacksburg Montgomery 79.3 69.3 148.6 46 Dublin Pulaski 79.9 68.2 148.1 47 Grafton York 79.4 66.9 146.3 48 Kempsville Virginia Beach City 76.8 69.2 146.0 49 Brentsville District High Prince William 73.1 72.5 145.5 50 Chickahominy Hanover 75.5 69.8 145.3 " Virginia (high school): "Rank School Division English Pass Algebra II Pass Total Graphs 1 Thomas Jefferson Fairfax 100.0 99.5 199.5 2 Lake Braddock Secondary Fairfax 86.7 69.9 156.7 3 Langley Fairfax 94.2 62.2 156.4 4 Oakton Fairfax 92.3 63.4 155.8 5 Rappahannock Co. Rappahannock 86.0 63.6 149.6 6 Loudoun Valley Loudoun 76.8 72.0 148.7 7 Riverheads Augusta 75.2 69.6 144.8 8 Richmond Community Richmond City 94.7 50.0 144.7 9 Colonial Heights Colonial Heights City 89.9 52.3 142.2 10 Potomac Falls Loudoun 84.0 56.0 140.0 11 South Lakes Fairfax 85.1 53.6 138.7 12 Tucker Henrico 88.2 50.2 138.4 13 Murray Albemarle 66.7 71.4 138.1 14 West Springfield Fairfax 83.3 53.8 137.1 15 Mclean Fairfax 88.5 48.3 136.8 16 Kempsville Virginia Beach City 85.6 50.8 136.3 17 Yorktown Arlington 83.3 52.8 136.1 18 Blacksburg Montgomery 79.9 55.2 135.1 19 Robinson Secondary Fairfax 85.2 49.9 135.1 20 Wilson Memorial Augusta 76.1 58.8 135.0 21 Woodson Fairfax 89.6 45.1 134.7 22 James Monroe Fredericksburg City 72.9 60.6 133.5 23 Clover Hill Chesterfield 89.6 43.5 133.1 24 Godwin Henrico 84.4 48.4 132.8 25 Marshall Fairfax 83.0 49.8 132.8 26 Powhatan Powhatan 86.5 45.5 131.9 27 Maury Norfolk City 83.4 48.5 131.9 28 Chantilly Fairfax 79.6 51.5 131.1 29 George Mason Falls Church City 79.8 51.2 131.0 30 Louisa County Louisa 82.2 48.4 130.6 31 Broad Run Loudoun 79.9 49.6 129.5 32 Cave Spring Roanoke 88.3 40.0 128.3 33 West Potomac Fairfax 83.8 44.2 128.1 34 Hayfield Secondary Fairfax 88.1 39.4 127.5 35 Frank W. Cox Virginia Beach City 71.0 56.3 127.3 36 John Handley Winchester City 83.6 43.0 126.5 37 Salem Salem City 87.9 38.5 126.4 38 St. Paul Wise 76.2 50.0 126.2 39 Madison Fairfax 80.0 46.1 126.1 40 Freeman Henrico 88.3 37.4 125.7 41 William Monroe Greene 67.1 57.9 125.0 42 Midlothian Chesterfield 89.7 34.5 124.2 43 Fairfax Fairfax 78.0 45.9 123.9 44 Radford Radford City 76.8 46.0 122.9 45 William Fleming Roanoke City 67.5 55.0 122.5 46 Centreville Fairfax 80.0 42.0 122.0 47 Lee Fairfax 84.9 35.3 120.1 48 Poquoson Poquoson City 82.3 37.8 120.1 49 Bayside Virginia Beach City 64.5 55.1 119.7 50 First Colonial Virginia Beach City 75.4 43.3 118.7" one can see a significant decrease in the scores of students as they mature. in the end, only 37.8% of students from poquoson school passed algebraII. as much as i would like to compare these scores to massachusetts, california, new york or connecticut, i cannot, as the statistics are not based on "pass/fail." actually, most of the northern states are based on the percentages of students at the "advanced" level. actually, i just found some interesting stats! so, for louisiana in 2002 (btw, what does "PARISH" mean?): "Rank School Parish 10th Gr Lang Arts Master 10th Gr Math Master 11th Gr Science Master 11th Gr Soc. Stud. Master Total Graphs 1 Caddo Parish Caddo 64.0 64.0 71.0 53.0 252.0 2 John Mcdonogh Orleans 0.0 59.0 82.0 77.0 218.0 3 Baton Rouge East Baton Rouge 63.0 56.0 50.0 39.0 208.0 4 Mandeville St. Tammany 32.0 36.0 49.0 24.0 141.0 5 Andrew Jackson Fundamental St. Bernard 32.0 37.0 43.0 23.0 135.0 6 Benjamin Franklin Orleans 30.0 57.0 35.0 13.0 135.0 7 Mckinley East Baton Rouge 33.0 43.0 31.0 26.0 133.0 8 Fontainebleau St. Tammany 32.0 43.0 34.0 23.0 132.0 9 Lafayette Lafayette 31.0 42.0 36.0 20.0 129.0 10 Northshore St. Tammany 31.0 34.0 40.0 21.0 126.0 11 Vidrine Evangeline 27.0 24.0 38.0 22.0 111.0 12 Bolton Rapides 33.0 23.0 28.0 25.0 109.0 13 West Monroe Ouachita 31.0 45.0 18.0 14.0 108.0 14 Grand Lake Cameron 32.0 27.0 30.0 17.0 106.0 15 Saline Bienville 30.0 38.0 36.0 0.0 104.0 16 Slidell St. Tammany 27.0 35.0 27.0 15.0 104.0 17 West Feliciana West Feliciana 33.0 36.0 25.0 10.0 104.0 18 Airline Bossier 29.0 30.0 27.0 17.0 103.0 19 East Beauregard Beauregard 27.0 45.0 21.0 10.0 103.0 20 Pitkin Vernon 15.0 23.0 47.0 18.0 103.0 21 C.E. Byrd Caddo 32.0 32.0 18.0 20.0 102.0 22 Anacoco Vernon 19.0 35.0 35.0 12.0 101.0 23 Harrisonburg Catahoula 19.0 27.0 35.0 20.0 101.0 24 Grace King Jefferson 21.0 25.0 28.0 25.0 99.0 25 Hathaway Jefferson Davis 19.0 34.0 31.0 15.0 99.0 26 Deridder Beauregard 30.0 36.0 24.0 8.0 98.0 27 Hahnville St. Charles 21.0 21.0 27.0 28.0 97.0 28 Mcmain Magnet Secondary Orleans 44.0 28.0 17.0 8.0 97.0 29 Central East Baton Rouge 25.0 30.0 24.0 17.0 96.0 30 Destrehan St. Charles 31.0 30.0 22.0 13.0 96.0 31 Block Catahoula 14.0 28.0 23.0 29.0 94.0 32 Captain Shreve Caddo 27.0 24.0 19.0 24.0 94.0 33 St. Amant Ascension 22.0 38.0 20.0 14.0 94.0 34 Doyle Livingston 16.0 33.0 33.0 11.0 93.0 35 Weston Jackson 26.0 28.0 25.0 14.0 93.0 36 Zachary East Baton Rouge 26.0 27.0 26.0 14.0 93.0 37 Bell City Calcasieu 14.0 37.0 29.0 11.0 91.0 38 Berwick St. Mary 27.0 32.0 21.0 11.0 91.0 39 Ponchatoula Tangipahoa 22.0 25.0 28.0 16.0 91.0 40 North Vermilion Vermilion 26.0 35.0 23.0 6.0 90.0 41 Quitman Jackson 22.0 32.0 21.0 15.0 90.0 42 Holden Livingston 13.0 38.0 26.0 12.0 89.0 43 Pine Prairie Evangeline 31.0 19.0 26.0 13.0 89.0 44 Pineville Rapides 24.0 26.0 20.0 19.0 89.0 45 Ruston Lincoln 25.0 27.0 17.0 20.0 89.0 46 Boothville-Venice Plaquemines 6.0 50.0 29.0 3.0 88.0 47 Denham Springs Livingston 20.0 31.0 24.0 13.0 88.0 48 Parkway Bossier 19.0 25.0 31.0 13.0 88.0 49 Rosepine Vernon 32.0 38.0 9.0 9.0 88.0 50 Sicily Island Catahoula 6.0 39.0 39.0 4.0 88.0 " now, compare that to massachusetts (not nearly as good as new york, california) "Rank School District County 10th Gr ELA Adv 10th Gr Math Adv Total Graphs 1 Boston Latin Boston Suffolk 60.0 76.0 136.0 2 Weston Weston Middlesex 54.0 59.0 113.0 3 Acton Boxborough Reg Acton-Boxborough Middlesex 48.0 63.0 111.0 4 Concord Carlisle Concord-Carlisle Middlesex 51.0 59.0 110.0 5 Newton South Newton Middlesex 52.0 58.0 110.0 6 Wayland Wayland Middlesex 54.0 55.0 109.0 7 Dover Sherborn Reg H Dover-Sherborn Norfolk 52.0 50.0 102.0 8 Newton North Newton Middlesex 49.0 52.0 101.0 9 Belmont Belmont Middlesex 49.0 51.0 100.0 10 Bromfield Harvard Worcester 50.0 50.0 100.0 11 Wellesley Sr Wellesley Norfolk 47.0 52.0 99.0 12 Westwood Westwood Norfolk 47.0 50.0 97.0 13 Medfield Senior Medfield Norfolk 47.0 49.0 96.0 14 Tahanto Reg Berlin-Boylston Reg Worcester 57.0 39.0 96.0 15 Lexington Lexington Middlesex 46.0 48.0 94.0 16 Hingham Hingham Plymouth 50.0 43.0 93.0 17 Sharon Sharon Norfolk 47.0 45.0 92.0 18 Westford Academy Westford Middlesex 42.0 50.0 92.0 19 Winchester High Scho Winchester Middlesex 43.0 48.0 91.0 20 Nashoba Regional Nashoba Worcester 47.0 43.0 90.0 21 Norwell Norwell Plymouth 50.0 40.0 90.0 22 Cohasset Cohasset Norfolk 47.0 42.0 89.0 23 Andover Andover Essex 36.0 52.0 88.0 24 Ashland Ashland Middlesex 51.0 37.0 88.0 25 Lynnfield Lynnfield Essex 47.0 41.0 88.0 26 Westborough Westborough Worcester 41.0 47.0 88.0 27 Needham Needham Norfolk 43.0 44.0 87.0 28 Hamilton Wenham Reg Hamilton-Wenham Essex 46.0 40.0 86.0 29 Lincoln Sudbury Reg Lincoln-Sudbury Middlesex 40.0 46.0 86.0 30 University Park Camp Worcester Worcester 43.0 43.0 86.0 31 Algonquin Reg Northboro-Southboro Worcester 36.0 49.0 85.0 32 Shrewsbury Sr Shrewsbury Worcester 46.0 39.0 85.0 33 Amherst Regional Amherst-Pelham Hampshire 39.0 44.0 83.0 34 Groton Dunstable Reg Groton-Dunstable Middlesex 39.0 42.0 81.0 35 Bedford Bedford Middlesex 40.0 40.0 80.0 36 Pentucket Reg Sr Pentucket Essex 45.0 33.0 78.0 37 Brookline Brookline Norfolk 34.0 43.0 77.0 38 Longmeadow Longmeadow Hampden 36.0 41.0 77.0 39 Francis W Parker Francis W Parker Cha Middlesex 34.0 39.0 73.0 40 Masconomet Regional Masconomet Essex 38.0 35.0 73.0 41 Nauset Regional Nauset Barnstable 42.0 31.0 73.0 42 Hopkins Academy Hadley Hampshire 25.0 47.0 72.0 43 Boston Latin Academy Boston Suffolk 23.0 48.0 71.0 44 Ipswich Ipswich Essex 30.0 41.0 71.0 45 Mansfield Mansfield Bristol 37.0 34.0 71.0 46 Frontier Reg Frontier Franklin 41.0 28.0 69.0 47 Millis Millis Norfolk 44.0 24.0 68.0 48 Sutton Sutton Worcester 35.0 33.0 68.0 49 Hopkinton Hopkinton Middlesex 34.0 33.0 67.0 50 Nantucket Nantucket Nantucket 29.0 38.0 67.0 " of course, these are different tests, but they are suggestive, now are they not? interestingly enough, alabama, mississippi, west virginia, etc are not mentioned, but would be, were there more interest. really, check the poll on the site. education is quintessential to a successful society. for prosperity to flourish, a region must educate its children properly. we can see a difference already. just a note, the KKK is still 5,500 members strong, plus there's the "white aryan resistence" and the "church of the creator" to deal with. not to mention the phone company that calls its competitors sinners. unfortunately, a great number of my points i cannot use statsistics for. there is no statistic for the number of bigots in an area. there is no statistic for the number of confederate flags in an area. and unfortunately, i can find nothing on performance in alabama schools. actually, scratch that! statistics from a random school from alabama (on this site it actually takes like 5 minutes to find any one particular school, so don't think i wasted my time looking around for a school with poor performance) known as "autaugavilla school" (a high school): "Scale: Percentage of students meeting the standards Grade 7 Writing: Holistic Composition 7% (This school-2002) 38% (State average-2002)" source: http://www.greatschools.net the fact that this school is 96% black and 83% of students receive free or reduced-price lunch may be relevant.

Am-241-->alpha radium is no longer used in anything really, although it used to be in luminescent paints

"Niether can any of the Noble gases." xenon forms a number of fluorides, namely the di, tetra and hexafluoride as well as XeF7-, XeF8-2, [XeF5]+[AsF6]-, [XeF]+[AsF6]-, XeOF4, XeO2F2, XeO3F2, XeO4, XeO6-4, and Ba2XeO6. also, don't forget about krypton difluoride. also, argon forms clathrates such as Ar8(H2O)46 and Ar(quinol)3. krypton forms clathrates as well; Kr8(H2O)46, Kr(quinol)3. also, [KrF]+[AsF6]- exists. xenon forms clathrates such as Xe8(H2O)46. Xe(quinol)3.

i dont think the iupac name would be dihydrogen monoxide. i believe it would be hydrogen oxide. nontheless, it doesn't really matter. dihydrogen monoxide, hydrogen hydroxide, hydrohydroxic acid, water, we all know what it is

at the second link i found indole and tetrahydrofuran. see, that's confusing. indole is legal? people can just buy it and make any sort of tryptamine. and THF? great for certain organic syntheses

the current causes the oxidation/reduction reactions to occur. electrostatic forces are the forces that attract opposite charges. ionic "bonds" are the result of strong electrostatic forces between ions.

the forces holding NaCl together are all electrostatic. no covalent bonds. the current reduces the Na+ and oxidizes the Cl-

the second hydronium cation of sulfuric acid doesn't dissociate completely, or nearly so. thus, a 2:1 ratio would increase yields

interesting, as such catalysts generally promote the oxidation of aliphatic hydrocarbons to epoxides

"Sorry, sodium chloride." NaCl at 500 celsius in argon wouldn't work. now, if you ran a current through it at such temps, it would yield chlorine gas and sodium metal

i told you. get pure carbonate, add hydrohalic acid, electrolyze fused salt

add a more active metal that won't react with water. try magnesium or aluminum