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  • Flasks and beakers filled with water against blue background
    By Lipi Gupta 12 months ago

    How To Convert Ppm To Micrograms Per Cubic Meter

    Unit conversions are a helpful thing in many different parts of everyday life, and that's also true when it comes to measures of concentration.

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  • Close up of amethyst crystals on green background
    By Pearl Lewis 12 months ago

    How To Find Lattice Constant

    Crystals are fascinating and beautiful to many people for many reasons, but there's also quite a bit of science behind them, including the lattice constant.

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  • Close-up of an unlabeled reagent bottle in a laboratory
    By Tiffany Betts 12 months ago

    Eriochrome Black T Solution Preparation

    Used for dyeing and testing for metal ions, among others, preparing a solution of Eriochrome Black T is simple and has a variety of applications.

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  • Erlenmeyer flask of sodium hydroxide (NaOH)
    By Elias Nash 12 months ago

    How To Calculate The Normality Of NaOH

    In chemistry, normality is a way to represent the concentration of a solution. Luckily, calculating its value is a pretty straightforward thing to do.

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  • Bubbles rising in blue-tinted water
    By Tiffany Betts 12 months ago

    How To Make Negatively Charged Water

    In general, water is a neutrally charged molecule, but there are some ways to give it a negative charge. What's more, the process is a quick and easy one.

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  • asteroid flying above the surface of Earth from space
    By Joe Roberts 12 months ago

    Terrestrial Life May Not Have Started On Earth

    Nobody knows how life began on Earth, but some tantalizing clues from an asteroid suggest it might not have started here.

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  • Scientist inserting cuvette with pink liquid into spectrophotometer
    By Denielle Radcliff March 5th, 2025

    How To Use A Spectrophotometer

    Spectrophotometers are used to determine how much light a solution can absorb, indicating its concentration. Fortunately, the process isn't too complicated.

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  • Closed jars filled with fermenting vegetables
    By Lan Luo March 4th, 2025

    5 Uses Of Fermentation

    Fermentation is a process you're probably familar wikth due to its associations with food. But it's a lot more ubiquitous than that, seeing use in many fields.

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  • Two flasks filled with yellow and blue liquid on a desk
    By Maria Kielmas March 3rd, 2025

    How To Neutralize Muriatic Acid

    Muriatic acid is a dangerous substance that should be neutralized if accidentally spilled. Fortunately, there's a simple and safe way to do just that.

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  • Black and white close up of Marie Curie looking serious
    By Elaine Todd March 3rd, 2025

    The Tragic Story Of The Scientist Destroyed By Her Own Discoveries

    Scientific research can be a dangerous thing, a fact that becomes clear with the aid of hindsight. And that's no more true than in the case of this scientist.

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  • Flask with pink liquid and pH strip
    By Kevin Beck March 3rd, 2025

    How To Calculate The Percentage Of Ionization Given The pH

    pH is a measure of the strength of an acid or base, but it's also indicative of the percentage of ionization. As such, you can calculate one from the other.

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  • Hand holding pH indicator strip over beaker filled with blue liquid
    By Claire Gillespie March 3rd, 2025

    How To Calculate The PH Of NaOH

    While pH testing strips can be used to determine the strength of NaOH, it's also possible to calculate that value using little more than a simple process.

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  • Smoking blue liquid in flask
    By Jack Brubaker March 3rd, 2025

    What Happens When You Put Dry Ice In Water?

    If you've seen bowls full of smoking liquid, then you might know something about the effects of dry ice in water, but what exactly is the science behind that?

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  • Beaker and test tubes with colored liquids in lab
    By Chris Deziel February 27th, 2025

    How To Convert pKa To Ka

    Ka is an important value when it comes to the strength of acids and bases, but sometimes, it can be unwieldy. That's where the conversion to kKa comes in.

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  • Chernobyl explosion artwork
    By Richard Milner February 20th, 2025

    The Worst Part Of The Chernobyl Disaster Isn't What You Think

    Chernobyl is an infamous disaster that's also become something of a cautionary tale. But as it turns out, there's a chance it could have been avoided.

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  • Containers of red and blue litmus paper
    By Elle Hanson February 19th, 2025

    What Is The Difference Between Blue & Red Litmus Paper?

    Litmus paper might be something that you've seen in a chemistry lab, but how does is actually work? And why are there two different colored versions?

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  • Black and white image of sticky honey
    By Tiffany Betts February 15th, 2025

    Scientists Accidentally Created A Sticky Substance Straight Out Of A Sci-Fi Movie

    Sci-fi movies feature technology that seems far beyond our current capabilities, but that isn't always true. This new material proves that much.

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  • Mars polar ice cap as seen from above
    By Elias Nash February 11th, 2025

    It Snows On Mars, But It's Not The Same As Earth

    Everyone knows that Earth is capable of providing beautiful, snowy landscapes, but it isn't unique in that. It snows on Mars, too, but there's a bit of a twist.

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  • Bug-like net capturing CO2 molecules
    By Tiffany Betts February 10th, 2025

    The Porous Powder That Can Capture CO2

    Global warming is a major concern, with the growing presence of carbon dioxide being a big part factor. But this powder might be able to combat that issue.

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  • Person stretching yellow slime in their hands
    By Elaine Todd February 9th, 2025

    How To Make Edible Slime: The 13 Best At Home Recipes

    Who doesn't enjoy making (and playing with) slime? If you want to try something new with the sticky substance, then consider trying out these edible slimes.

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  • Lab glassware with colored fluids
    By Riti Gupta February 7th, 2025

    How To Convert Mg To mmol/L

    In chemistry, concentrations are important measurements, and it's helpful to know how to convert between them. Here's how the math works out.

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  • Carbon, nitrogen, oxygen chemical elements on periodic table
    By Rosann Kozlowski February 7th, 2025

    How To Calculate The Percent Abundance Of An Isotope

    A single element can have multiple different forms, called isotopes, and it's possible to determine the percent abundance of those forms. Here's how.

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  • Rendering of planet Earth in starry space
    By Elias Nash February 6th, 2025

    Molecules That Can Never Exist Naturally On Earth

    Space is home to a great many oddities, and even chemistry gets strange out there. In fact, there are even some molecules that you'd never find here on Earth.

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  • Artist's rendering of Mars horizon
    By Elias Nash February 5th, 2025

    How A NASA Experiment Might Have Destroyed Life On Mars

    Researchers have been looking for life on Mars for a long time, and they might have found it on one occasion, only to destroy it at the same time.

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  • Computer illustration of planet Uranus
    By Elias Nash February 4th, 2025

    The Smelly Truth About Uranus

    While space harbors plenty of mysteries, it turns out that Uranus' smell isn't one of them. Here's the explanation for why it's so uniquely stinky.

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  • multicolored northern lights
    By Daniel Allen January 26th, 2025

    Every Northern And Southern Lights Color Explained

    The northern and southern lights, auroras visible from the poles, glow with a range of different colored lights. Here's the reason for each of those colors.

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  • Lab Experiment
    By Kevin Beck January 10th, 2025

    How To Calculate A Milliequivalent

    The concept of moles and equivalents, and thus millimoles and milliequivalents is of vital importance in medicine and clinical pharmacology.

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