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Chemistry: Gas Laws

Gas LawsChemistryGas LawsBoyle's Law: Why Compressed Gas Is SmallCharles's Law: The Incredible Imploding CanGay-Lussac's Law: Spray Paint + Campfire = Bad NewsThe Combined Gas LawAvogadro's Law and…

Chemistry: How Ionic Compounds Are Formed

How Ionic Compounds Are FormedChemistryIonic CompoundsWhat's an Ionic Compound?How Ionic Compounds Are FormedProperties of Ionic CompoundsWhat's in a Name? Ionic Nomenclature As you might expect…

Chemistry: Percent Composition

Percent CompositionChemistryThe MoleWhat's a Mole?Molar MassConverting Between Moles, Molecules, and GramsPercent Composition Sometimes, it's handy to figure out how much of an element is present…

Chemistry: What Is an Equilibrium?

What Is an Equilibrium?ChemistrySolution Chemistry/emical EquilibriaWhat Is an Equilibrium?Equilibrium ConstantsHeterogeneous EquilibriaDisturbing Equilibria: Le Chtelier's Principle When we…

Women in the 109th Congress

Sources: www.house.gov and www.senate.gov Blacks in the 109th Congress (42 in House: 42 Democrats; 1 Democrat in Senate) State House Senate Alabama Artur Davis (D)   California…

Women in the 110th Congress

Check out the lists of minorities and women in the 110th Congress, along with which state and political party they represented. The 110th Congress was the meeting of the legislative branch of the…

Brewer's: Trulli

Female spirits noted for their kindness to men. (RandleHolms: Academy of Armory.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894TrumpTruepenny A B C D E F G H I J…

Brewer's: Albino-poets

Oliver Wendell Holmes, in the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (chap. viii.), speaks of Kirke White as one of the “sweet Albino poets,” whose “plaintive song” he admires. It implies some…

Brewer's: Helvetia

Switzerland. So called from the Helvetii, a powerful Celtic people who dwelt thereabouts. See from the ashes of Helvetia's pile The whitened skull of old Servetus smile. Holmes. Source:…