Hello, estemmed readers of the HiveSTEM community. It has been a while. It’s so great to be back, not on Steem but Hive. Nice logo and colour mix.In my last post on Steem, I was discussing the chemistry

Today's post will be centred majorly on spectroscopy and chromatography. So, let's get to start with the discussion on nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPYIn

Hello, dear readers. I will be starting today's post on the explanation of a special type of spectrometer called The Time-of-flight mass spectrometer.TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETERIt was during the 1950s

Medicines from plants: The first recorded use of plants for medicinal purposes was found on Egyptian papyrus dated about 1500 BC. All over the world, from tribal medicine in Africa to folk remedies in

Carbon dioxide is not the most potent greenhouse gas. If its concentration in the Earth’s atmosphere were to double, the effect would probably be an increase in temperature of 1.5-4.5°C. However, the

Hello, great readers. Greetings to the entire steemstem and stem communities. Thanks for the constant support and motivation. Today, I will continue from where I stopped in my previous post on ALKANES,

Winter smogs and summer smogs: People have become too reliant on the car. In the UK, for example, nearly a quarter of all car trips are less than 2 miles in length. Of all the journeys people make

So far, I have treated carbonyl compounds together and looked at reactions of the C=O functional group in both aldehydes and ketones. They do, however, differ in their reactions with oxidising and reducing

The most publicized hormones must be progesterone and testosterone. The reason for their fame is sex. Progesterone is the female sex hormone, which prepares the uterus for pregnancy after an egg has been

Monohalogenoalkanes are best prepared by replacing the hydroxyl group in an alcohol with a halogen atom. A variety of reagents can be used for this conversion and some of these are concentrated hydrochloric

The mechanism of a reaction details the smaller steps in the process that results in the formation of the end products from the starting material. In particular, a mechanism seeks to explain which bonds

After a serious accident, such as a plane crash in a remote area. Blood transfusions may have to be carried out under difficult conditions, but there may not be time to identify and match a victim’s blood

A colorimeter is a simple form of visible spectrometer. A fixed band of wavelengths of visible light is selected using a filter. This is then passed through the solution under test. The light that has

The first commercially successful azo dye was Chrysoidine. The azo group, – N=N –, acts as a ‘delocalisation bridge’ between the two benzene rings to form an extended delocalised system, which is the

Hello guys. While scrolling through my past posts on steemit, I stumbled across one that really caught my attention. It's a post on The World of Oil and the Petrochemical Industry written almost 8 months

Doctors often need to use X-rays to look inside the intestine and the stomach for cancers, ulcers and blockages.An image of an X-ray, Pixabay.However, using X-rays to diagnose such conditions does pose

Most ionic salts dissolve in polar solvents such as water. A solvent is a liquid that can dissolve other substances. The most common solvent is water. A solute is the substance that is dissolved the solvent.

The common feature of almost all compounds of the alkali metals is their high solubility in water. All the compounds of alkali metals are ionic and so they have a giant ionic lattice. As a result, they

Some people think of carbon dioxide as just the greenhouse gas that causes global warming problems, although of course carbon dioxide is essential for life as well. From earliest times on Earth and

Alkenes can also undergo other sorts of addition reactions, such as catalytic hydrogenation. In this case, hydrogen is added to the C=C bond to make a saturated compound. The reaction mechanism is not