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Explain electrophilic aromatic substitution?

Electrophilic aromatic substitution ( S E Ar ) is an organic reaction in which an atom that is attached to an aromatic system (usually hydrogen) is replaced by an electrophile. An electrophile is reagent tha...
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What is historiography and why is it helpful?

Historiography is the essentially ‘the history of history’. In the typical study of history you will be looking at events and facts- analysing why they happened and the causes and consequences. Historiograph...
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What is the Quark structure, Baryon number, and antiparticle of a kaon, K+, which has a strangeness of 1.

Firstly we must figure out what we know about this particle. We have its stangeness which is 1 and we know its charge from the "+" symbol in the question, which is also 1.For the first bit we shoul...
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What is the derivative of ln(x)?

First let y=ln(x). Recall that the exponential function, e x , is defined as the inverse of the logarithmic function, ln(x). To make x the subject of the formula, use the inverse function exp. This gives tha...
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Why is it that sin^2(x) + cos^2(x) = 1?

Let's start with the definition of sin( x ) and cos( x ). We're going to use t rather than x here to avoid confusion, but the idea is exactly the same. Take a unit circle - that is, a circle with centre (0,0...
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