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2 years ago

What accident led percy julian to discover the method to separate progesterone from soybean oil?

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esearchers in many countries were seeking innovative and cost-effective ways to synthesize steroids, including cortisone and the sex hormones. German chemists discovered that the steroid stigmasterol, which Julian had obtained as a by-product of the physostigmine synthesis but was also obtainable from soybeans, could be used in the synthesis of certain sex hormones, including progesterone

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A factory discharges clean, warm water into a nearby stream. Fish keep dying in this part of stream. Explain why.

Ostrovityanka [42]

Answer:

the fish can't survive in that warm water

Explanation:

when the factory puts that warm water into the stream where the fish live they changed their environment. by adding unknown chemicals and changing the temp of the water the fish start to die.

The fish aren't used to living in that warm water, and if they can't adapt fast enough they will die, also the unknown chemicals that could be in the water will act as a poison for them making that stream unable to support any life.

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2 years ago

The weight of a sack potato in india is 50kgf. will the weight increase or decrease in bhutan. why

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Answer:

Assume that the sack was initially close to the sea level. Its weight will increase even though its mass stays the same.

Explanation:

The weight of an object typically refers to the size of the planet's gravitational attraction (a force) on this object. That's not the same as the mass of the object. The weight of an object at a position depends on the size of the gravitational field there; on the other hand, the mass of the object is supposed to be same regardless of the location- as long as the object stays intact.

Let $g$ denote the strength of the gravitational field at a certain point. If the mass of an object is $m$ , its weight at that point will be $m \cdot g$ .

Indeed, $g \approx 9.81\; \rm N \cdot kg^{-1}$ on many places of the earth. However, this value is accurate only near the sea level. The equation for universal gravitation is a more general way for finding the strength of the gravitational field at an arbitrary height. Let $G$ denote the constant of universal gravitation, and let $M$ denote the mass of the earth. At a distance $r$ from the center of the earth (where

$\displaystyle g \approx \frac{G \cdot M}{r^2}$ .

The elevation of many places in Bhutan are significantly higher than that of many places in India. Therefore, a sack of potato in Bhutan will likely be further away from the center of the earth (larger $r$ ) compared to a sack of potato in India.

Note, that in the approximation, the value of $g$ is (approximately, because the earth isn't perfectly spherical) inversely proportional to the distance from the center of the planet. The gravitational field strength

On the other hand, the weight of an object of fixed mass is proportional to the gravitational field strength. Therefore, the same bag of potatoes will have a smaller weight at most places in Bhutan compared to most places in India.

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2 years ago

What are oil and waters properties of matter?

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Answer:

Two other beneficial properties of the oil include the inhibition of corrosion of metal surfaces, such as steel, and the removal of dirt and detritus via detergency.

Properties of water include its chemical formula H2O, density, melting, boiling point & how one molecule of water has two hydrogen atoms covalently bonded to one oxygen atom.

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3 years ago

Compare 1 mole of H2, 1 mole of O2, and 1 mole of F2. (a) Which has the largest number of molecules? Explain why. (b) Which has

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a) Answer:

Number of molecules in 1 mole

Explanation:

a) Whether we take any of the substance among all three of the given substances they will have the same number of molecules in 1 mole of the substance is considered and the value for this will be $6.023 x 10^23$

b) Answer:

In the given question mass of the substance which is greatest is asked for one mole and we also know that mass of one mole is given by molar mass.

Explanation:

b) It is known that $31.98g/mol$ is the molar mass for oxygen which is greater than that of hydrogen while fluorine has a molar mass of $38.0 g/mol$ which on comparison shows that, it is the highest amongst all three.

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3 years ago

The red balls represent _____ and have a positive charge.

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