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Find the mass of Cr3+ in the original solution. MSDS Solutions - Free material safety data sheets from 3E Compan. ChemSpider - Database of Chemical Structures and Property Predic. Fluoroantimonic acid. Fluoroantimonic acid (systematically named fluorium hexafluorostibanuide and fluorium hexafluoridoantimonate(1-)) is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula H 2FSbF 6 (also written H 2F[SbF 6]).

Fluoroantimonic acid

It is an ionic liquid created by reacting hydrogen fluoride with antimony pentafluoride in stoichiometrically equivalent amounts. Similar acids can be created by using excess antimony pentafluoride.[1] The 1:1 combination forms the strongest known superacid, which has been demonstrated to protonate even hydrocarbons to afford carbocations and H2.[2] Despite the proton being called effectively "naked," it is in fact always attached to a hydrogen fluoride molecule through a very weak dative bond, similar to the hydronium cation.[3] However, the weakness of this bond accounts for the system's extreme acidity.

The reaction to produce fluoroantimonic acid is: SbF5 + F- → SbF6- Overall: SbF5 + 2 HF → SbF6- + H2F+ Structure[edit] Comparison with other acids[edit] Applications[edit] Safety[edit] Self-Experimenters: Psychedelic Chemist Explores the Surreality of Inner Space, One Drug at a Time. This is the final story the series of eight stories in our feature on self-experimenters.

Self-Experimenters: Psychedelic Chemist Explores the Surreality of Inner Space, One Drug at a Time

Alexander Shulgin is the world's foremost "psychonaut. " The 82-year-old chemist has not only created more of the 300 known consciousness-altering (or psychoactive) compounds than anyone living or dead, he has, by his own account, sampled somewhere between 200 and 250 of them himself—most of them cooked up in the musty lab behind his home in the hills east of Berkeley, Calif., where he has shared many a chemical voyage with his wife of 26 years, Ann. "I take them myself because I am interested in their activity in the human mind.

How would you test that in a rat or mouse? " says Shulgin, known to friends as Sasha. He has paid the price for his avocation. As a student at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1950s, Shulgin's gateway drug was mescaline, a naturally occurring psychedelic found in peyote and other groovy cacti. Shulgin, who left Dow in 1965 to consult for the U.S. How do Pop Rocks candy work?" "Pop Rocks" is an extremely cool candy to some people, but to other people it is just plain weird and they won't touch the stuff.

How do Pop Rocks candy work?"

Regardless of which view you subscribe to, you have to admit that it is definitely a technology candy -- nothing in nature works like Pop Rocks do! So how do they work? One of the amazing things about Pop Rocks is that they are patented. That means that you can go read the patent and see exactly how they work. You can click here to see the patent -- this page is a synopsis, and if you click the "View Images" tag at the top of the page you can look at scanned images of the actual patent. Here's the basic idea. To make Pop Rocks, the hot sugar mixture is allowed to mix with carbon dioxide gas at about 600 pounds per square inch (psi). When you put the candy in your mouth, it melts (just like hard candy) and releases the bubbles with a loud POP! Chemistry Tutorials & Drills. General Chemistry. Alcoholic Liquor. English Oatmeal Stout by BevShots Have you ever wondered what your favourite libation looks like under a microscope?

Picture a scientist, drunk off White Russians; staring into his glass and thinking — I bet this would look really cool if I magnified it! To the Lab-Mobile! A few years and a few sloshy nights later, BevShots was born. A company that sells beautiful magnified prints of your favourite alcoholic drinks. Whiskey Magnified Gin Closeup The images are made by first crystallizing the drink of choice on a lab slide. Each image is created by using a pipette of each particular drink and squeezing a drop onto a slide. White Russian Tequila! Pina Colada Cocktails can have fruit and soft drinks in them which contain citric acids and complex sugars which dry out well and look great photographed.

American Amber Ale Scotch Scotch Scotch. Vodka Tonic Some drinks such as vodka do not have as many impurities in them as cocktails such as a pina colada. Japanese Rice Lager English Pure Brewed Lager.