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Why is it a bad idea to freeze water in a plastic container?
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What safety rules should be followed in a science laboratory?
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How much does one gallon of salt water weigh?
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Why are the oceans salty?
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If using muriatic acid do the fumes rise or stay near the ground without air movement?
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What are the uses of alcohol lamps?
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How can you find the number of protons and electrons and neutrons in an atom or ion?
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Can you use muriatic acid to clean out your pipes?
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What good things does ozone do?
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What is the importance and impact of chemistry on people society and technology?
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What is zero degrees Kelvin?
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Why is snow white and water transparent but sometimes ice can be both?
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How does the elevation and air pressure affect the boiling point of water?
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Who are some famous foreign chemists and what are their contributions to the field of science?
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How do you determine if a bond is non-polar covalent or polar covalent or ionic?
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What affects the rate of a chemical reaction?
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What are the names and uses of the various laboratory tools?
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What is air pressure at sea level in all the different units of pressure?
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How do you solve Ideal Gas Law problems?
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Why haven't chemists created a periodic table of compounds?
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What are the vertical columns or families or groups in the periodic table?
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How do fireworks work?
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How do you solve all different types of chemistry problems?
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How do you count the valence electrons of an atom?
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How do you draw Lewis dot structures?
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What is plastic made from?
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How did hydrogen obtain its chemical symbol?
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What is the modern periodic law of the elements?
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What is the metric unit for liquid volume?
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How do you determine if a molecule is polar or non-polar?
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How do you prepare the sodium perchlorate solution and how will it behave in hydrochloric acid medium?
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What is the octet rule in chemistry?
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What chemical and molecular effect does sugar have on water?
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What does it mean that acids donate hydrogen ions while bases accept them?
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What are practical uses of calcium?
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What is the relationship between melting point and atomic radius?
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How do you write a balanced chemical reaction?
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How can the Bohr model of atomic structure be used to explain the reactivity of the alkali metals?
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Is baking soda the same as muriatic acid?
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Which alkali metal has no known uses?
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How do you find the pH of a strong acid solution?
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How do you balance a reduction-oxidation or redox reaction?
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Why does fire need oxygen?
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What is the lowest and highest number of shared and unshared atoms in a unit cell of a FCC structure and a simple cubic structure?
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What is the difference between an acid and a base?
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What is ether?
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What is the Bohr model of the atom?
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How much does a gallon of milk weigh?
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How do you solve stoichiometry problems?
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How do you determine the shape of a molecule?
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How do you calculate the molality of a solution?
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What is the Lewis dot structure of methane?
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How does the polarity of water allow it to effectively dissolve ionic compounds?
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What is inside a fire extinguisher?
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How do you write a net ionic equation?
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What are two types of vaporization?
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How do you find the pH of a strong base solution?
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Why does boron form a tripositive ion?
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Do all explosions produce carbon dioxide?
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What is the structural formula of periodic acid?
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Who are some Filipino scientists?
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What is the freezing temperature of alcohol?
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Why is water a special substance in the metric system?
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Although Dalton's atomic theory was rejected at first he used his theory to do what that soon resulted in his theory being accepted by scientists?
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Who are some famous foreign scientists and what are their contributions to the fields of science?
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What is the freezing temperature of wine?
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What is a surfactant?
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Where does arsenic come from?
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What is the temperature difference between a yellow flame and a blue flame?
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What is the structure of hex-1-yn-4-one?
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