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Chromatography

Chemistry; General chemistry

Chromatography is a method for separating mixtures based on differences in the speed at which they migrate over or through a stationary phase .

The amplitudes of waves moving into the same region of space add to produce a single resultant wave. The resultang wave can have higher or lower amplitude than the component waves. See constructive ...

Rearrangement reaction

Chemistry; General chemistry

A reaction in which a reactant and product are isomers of each other. Chemical bonds within the reactant are broken and reformed to produce the product.

Experiment

Chemistry; General chemistry

An experiment is direct observation under controlled conditions. Most experiments involve carefully changing one variable and observing the effect on another variable (for example, changing ...

Oligosaccharide

Chemistry; General chemistry

A carbohydrate that consists of only a few linked monosaccharide units.

Uncertainty principle

Chemistry; General chemistry

The exact momentum and exact location of a particle cannot be specified. Werner Heisenberg stated that the product of uncertainties in location and momentum measurements can never be smaller than h/4 ...