Chemical reactions are responsible for life as well as all the products that we use during our lives. But there are some common misconceptions about reactions, especially that the product of a ...

The chemical element chlorine is too reactive to exist on its own in nature, but some of the compounds that contain it are essential to life. We use hydrochloric acid (HCl) in our stomachs to break ...

The spectacular reaction of alkali metals with water was poorly understood — despite being a staple of chemistry classes. It’s the classic piece of chemical tomfoolery: take a lump of sodium or ...

If the temperature is increased, the particles have more energy and so move quicker. Increasing the temperature increases the rate of reaction because the particles collide more often and with more ...

DURING the course of some work which I have been carrying out recently on the photo-synthesis of hydrogen chloride from its elements, rather curious results have been obtained. The light used to ...