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The 2026 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
The Nobel prize for Chemistry this year celebrates the pioneering work of Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai on homochirality - the synthesis of just the required enantiomer of chiral compounds and not the mirror...
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I thought I had addressed this in my last answer Harprit. Ask your students why a warm windy day is better for drying clothes outside rather than just a warm day.
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Thanks. Any thoughts on questions on (l)/(g) equilibria? It's not explictily in the syllabus and you also can't just always apply LCP in the same way.
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Site authorHello Mini,Remember an EE is not a Ph.D. thesis! I think this idea fom your student has considerable potential. If a good research question is formulated then there is considerable scope for personal input into designing the methodology and to...
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