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The bit about reacting alkali metal carbonates with CaCl₂(aq): how does that go exactly?

I suspect it is mainly the job of education to deal with this issue, rather than for scientists. The danger with involving scientists is that this...

Yep, didn't win but made the final (last 5) :(

And just to add a tiny bit to PhDemon's always-excellent answers, the word "alkali" has an Arabic derivation (as do algorithm, algebra, alchemy,...

You were talking about "expansion symmetry" of moving observers wrt the visible universe; but the universe is not a valid frame of reference, so you...

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Thank you PhDemon for the help!

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The problem was that Faraday and co didn't know that electrons orbit in atoms and that this current explains permanent magnetism. Had they done so,...

I agree, but the traditional view of magnetism leads people to think of poles as things rather than labels. For example, the direction of a magnetic...

Nitpick! I hate it when people talk about eating sodium! Sodium is a very reactive metal, eating it would kill you! You mean sodium chloride or salt!

1) They are called alkali metals because they form alkalis (soluble metal hydroxides when they react with water) 2) Potassium hydroxide can be...

I suspect that the OP has found something in the 3 years since posting. :)

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Here dude, Metallicbeing, this'll help; https://archive.org/details/flatlandromanceo00abbouoft Just read it.

Actually, electron spin is not at all fundamental to the development of the flux concept, so ignorance of same is irrelevant. The magnetic field...

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Then why do you persist in making claims? Given that your post contained a number of flat declarations that were wrong then wouldn't it have been...

If you are interested in learning about mathematics a website called Khan Academy is a good place to start.

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