Questions of the Week
What is the difference between a compound and a mixture?
What is a solute?
What is a solvent?
What is a solution?
What is an example of a solution?
Scientist of the Week
I was born on September 29, 1901.
I was an Italian (later naturalized American) physicist and the creator of the world's first nuclear reactor, the Chicago Pile-1.
I have been called the "architect of the nuclear age"[1] and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
I was one of very few physicists to excel in both theoretical physics and experimental physics.
I was awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for my work on induced radioactivity by neutron bombardment and for the discovery of transuranium elements
Daily Questions
Give an example of a heterogeneous mixture.
Is fruitcake a compound?
How would you classify a chocolate chip cookie? (According to our discussions)
Why is there no subscript written for the “C” in formulas such as CO2?
In the dissolved oxygen mixture, why is the extra O2 not attached to the H2O?