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Essentially, it is the adjacent atoms or groups attached to the central carbon atom which have the ability to stabilise or destabilise a carbocation. The formation of this carbocation is what determines t...

Earthquakes are caused by the release of tension that builds up at plate margins. They can be triggered at destructive, constructive and conservative boundaries. At destructive margins, tension builds up ...

This differentiation requires use of the chain rule. The first step is to differentiate the whole thing, treating the bracket as u, so u=1+2x². Therefore we are differentiating u^1/2....

Politics is a baffling subject. 

The play-within-a-play highlights the feeling of paranoia built up throughout Hamlet. In performance, it makes the audience highly aware of their perspective as witnesses to both truth and lies. The whole...