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[Cu(H2O)6]2+ is and octahedral shaped complex which I shall draw on the whiteboard.

It is blue for thw following reasons:

When the water ligands bond to the Cu2+ ion, it causes the d orbital...

A catalyst is something that changes the rate of a chemical reaction, without being used up during it.

A catalyst provides a different reaction pathway, which requires a lower activation energy tha...

The chemical equation is as follows:

CaCO_3(s)+2HCl_(aq)--->CO_2(g)+H₂O(l)+CaCl_2(aq)

The general formula for an acid reacting with a ca...

A buffer solution is a solution which resists changes in pH when small quantities of acid or alkali are added to it. An example of a biological buffer system would be the bicarbonate buffer system (regula...

DNA requires one template strand that is conserved, in order for the nitrogenous bases to order themselves correctly in the new polynucleotide chain. This relies on the complimentary base pairing C-G and ...