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A useful chromatography resource from the RSC
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- Thank you Geoff for your reply. I am also a chemist. I just want to make sure how we would teach it for students in our chemistry subject. So as i got from you, we teach it as particles ceases and stop moving?
- Geoff, (not Richard!) I fear I am becoming more like my parents everyday, mixing up names of people that I clearly should not mix up....The Richard Thornley videos above must have confused me. John
- Hi John, You make a valid point (to Richard?) about HF and BF3 - although fluorine with an electronegativity value of 4 is always a problem with the ~ 1.8 rule of thumb - but I'm still not convinced that triangular bonding...
- Hello Omar, I'm a chemist, not a physicist, and the question is hypothetical as absolute zero can never be reached. As I understand it particles at absolute zero would not possess translational or vibrational kinetic energy. All particles...