Chemistry

Some interesting downloads

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I found a bunch of brochures for compounding various things for pharmacists, and thought you might be interested. We don’t make medical or health claims for our products, but there’s some interesting information in there about compounding things like styptic pencils, deodorants, and suppositories! Compounding gels Compounding medication sticksCompounding acne products Want more? You can find...

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Chemistry Sunday: Introduction to organic chemistry – functional groups

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We deal a lot with functional groups in organic chemistry, so I’m going to quickly go through the various types of functional groups so we can get to more stuff about essential oils! A functional group is “a molecular module, and the reactivity of that functional group is assumed, within limits, to be the same in...

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Chemistry Saturday: Cis and trans fats

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Original post can be found here… When we have a double bond on a fatty acid, it can be in either the cis- or trans- configuration. What exactly does this mean? In the cis configuration, the missing hydrogen atoms are on the same side of the double bond (cis means “same”). The molecules bend at...

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Chemistry Friday: Introduction to organic chemistry

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Nope, I haven’t gone all granola on you! Organic chemistry is a subdiscipline within chemistry involving the scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation (by synthesis or by other means) of carbon-based compounds, hydrocarbons, and their derivatives. These compounds may contain any number of other elements, including hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, the halogens...

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Argh! Why are you trying to teach me chemistry?

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So you get jokes like this! (Click here for more! They’re not all as awesome as this!) I find it interesting how many of us say, “I’m not good at math”. When was the last time you truly tried to do any real math beyond adding up the bill at a restaurant and trying to...

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