Lots of foods contain protein. When you eat them the proteins undergo hydrolysis reactions to break them down into their constituent amino a...

Carbohydrates like disaccharides and polysaccharides can be broken down into monosaccharides. In the lab we use acid hydrolysis, but in you...

Have you ever tried to determine the chloride concentration in a water sample using gravimetric analysis? It's pretty tricky! There must...

If you have an aqueous salt solution it conducts electricity because of all the ions in the solution. If you add a different aqueous salt so...

Trying to titrate a weak acid with a weak base using an acid-base indicator is .... annoying! The end point of the titration is extremely d...

I was sitting with some friends drinking tea in glasses. I noticed some people like "weak" tea and others like their tea "st...

I was trying to buy a present for my mum for Mothers' Day. "A gold chain," I thought, "would be a nice present". But...