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Life Lessons from Organic Chemistry That’ll Make You Smile (or Cringe)

Lesson 1: To give, first be a source In the first year of my PhD, I became fascinated by arrow-pushing mechanisms. These mechanisms are how organic chemists track the movements of electrons in a chemical reaction. Think of this as a one-way dance: Arrows move from regions of high electron d...

If there’s only one thing you need to know from Chemistry Class, it’s this…

In addition to these ecological effects, the property of water’s density anomaly also plays a fundamental role in the regulation of Earth’s climate. The oceans act as thermal regulators, absorbing heat during warm periods and releasing it during cold periods. The density anomaly of ...