Chemistry Made Simple

Oxidation States: The Scorecard You Need For Every Redox Reaction and Half-Equation.

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Group 2 Elements and Their Compounds - The Reaction and Trends You Need to Know

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How to Do a Titration - From Lab to Calculation

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Avoid Chemistry Calculation Chaos - Know the Correct Units and How to Convert Them

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Master the Acid Dissociation Constant Ka, and Use it to Calculate pH of Weak Acids

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Master the Equilibrium Constant Kc

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What is a Reversible Reaction and an Equilibrium

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What Exactly are Acids, pH, Strong & Weak Acids

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Master the Ideal Gas Equation in Chemistry

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How to Do Calculations in Chemistry Using the Mole

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How My ADHD Helps Me to Help You Learn Chemistry

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How to Balance Equations, and Why It Is So Important

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Never Ignore a Mole - What is a Mole and Why it is so Important

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What You Need to Know about Isotopes at A-Level

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How to Write and Understand Electron Configuration

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What is an atomic orbital, and what are the "rules" about orbitals?

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Quantum Mechanics - Two analogies to help you understand QM and quantum numbers.

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How Quantum Mechanics makes the atom 3 dimensional, effects the shape of molecules, and dictates the periodic table's configuration

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Physical, Organic, or Inorganic? How to navigate these chemistry topic groups.

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