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neutralized in what way?

i mean neutrally charged. you need the 3 + added because the citrate ion is -3

now if they only let you do the actual reaction in class... could be fun to do

anytime

actually, in ionic form, it's: C6H5O7-3(aq) + 3H+(aq) + NH4+(aq) + OH-(aq) --> 3NH4+(aq) + C6H5O7(aq) + H2O(l)

yeah it is. the 3 NH4 groups make the compound neutral

good ol' billy has advertising and marketing ability far beyond apple. that's the only reason

i take it this is done in aqueous solution... the NH3 really is NH4OH, so you get (NH4)3C6H5O7+H2O

i like skye's post; anybody here know how to make rockets, sparklers, etc that don't just blow up?

mulder, just about anything with NO2 or NO3 is explosive.

interesting how that works, considering the massive number of chemicals we can obtain. are we arrested for buying bleach and vinegar? hey, if one tries at all, they can produce ClO2 from those. think of all the alkaline metals we have access to through electrolysis. they come from common compounds. think of all the chlorates we have access to. we have access to nitrates, also. depending on who your government is, you will be traced. i am positive that if you go buy a 25lb sack of KNO3, you will not be arrested. i am positive that if you use some of that sack of KNO3 for syntheses of small amounts highly nitrated compounds, such as NG and PETN, nobody will know and nobody will care. if you go running around telling people how you have an explosives laboratory in your basement, you will be reported to the police. every chemist here knows that they have the choice to use their potential resources in multiple ways. my opinion is irrelevant.

both yt and i have stated that despite the fact that we know these syntheses, we don't like to share them, and we rarely use them ourselves (i never have). speaking for myself, i'd like to say that although it may be cool to say "wohoo, i just made some silver acetylide!" it's absolutely crazy and dangerous*124098^13580123580. a friend of mine made his own lab experiment (last of the year of AP chem). he decided to make silver acetylide. he also burned through an evaporating dish in the process. you don't want to mess with primary explosives.

right, i remember learning in my molecular bio class that proteins were broken because enzymes came into contact in a certain way...i just need more specifics on the exact mechanics

i know what they are and what they do, but i do not understand how they do what they do. how do catalysts and inhibitors have their effects?

ionic compounds tend to be between metals and halogens or nonmetal polyatomic ions. thus, they tend to not yield cation gases since the boiling points of metals are quite high.

Mac OSX Panther owns all... unless you enjoy unix to a fault, in which case you should go for linux. example; a friend of mine can keep his powermac g3 (OSX Jaguar; panther is quite a bit better) on for weeks at a time without any difference in performance. it works well even with moderate to heavy usage. i can't keep my pc on for more than 8 hours without being forced to restart. after 3 hours of relatively heavy usage, the comp's performance decreases at a slightly exponential rate. to add to that, with OSX, programs never crash. also, macs are better for media work such as video editing, sound editing and photo editing.

how was i being irresponsible? to be honest, to the date, i have yet to synthesize anything explosive. calm down buddy

that's interesting. what for? what kind of an explosion are you after?

i dunno, but it's true. depends on where you are.

do you think anybody cares? if you want to make something just keep quiet about it and make it in your basement. oh, and don't blow people up. oh, i know of quite a bunch of syntheses; trinitrophenol, nitrocellulose, nitroglycerin (2 methods actually), nitric acid and silver acetylide among others. feel free to ask:) oh, and i know of a good way of obtaining and purifying KNO3 from old manure...

no; H2O is odorless. pour a glass and sniff. every solid and liquid has a certain amount of itself in the gas phase floating over it.

i guess you missed my previous post:\ the neutrons can be exploited...think fusion. that's the only way. it's impossible to have a chemical reaction that yields a neutron. only nuclear reactions can do so. radioactive decay fusion and fission.

it's all relative to one's opinion, really. every covalent bond that doesn't involve two of the same element is polar. every polar covalent bond is partially ionic. every ionic bond is partially polar covalent. a fully ionic bond is an oxymoron. if there is no sharing of the electrons involved, it's not a bond; rather, it's the transfer of electrons. the 1.7 rule is linus pauling's opinion, and what chemists use today.

right. any bond involving polyatomic ions is considered ionic. any bond with an electronegativity difference greater than 1.7 is also considered ionic.

ay, i like pyrochem. as for easy experiments, probably the easiest thing to do is go buy a 25lb sack of KNO3, add glucose and melt into a caramel consistency (don't overheat) then light a match. it gets quite hot and yields a large smoke cloud. but hey, that's way too easy and really boring. there's other syntheses i know of; what are you looking for?