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ELI5: interactions between acid and base that would occur in day-to-day setting

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ELI5: If Fentanyl is so deadly how do the clandestine labs manufacture it, smugglers transport it and dealers handle it without killing everyone involved?

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ELI5: How do fireworks get their shape?

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eli5: How does super glue get packaged without activating?

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ELI5: Why does salt dissolve when you put it in a liquid?

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ELI5: How is insulin made?

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ELI5: Why are laxatives, and only laxatives, sold in chocolate form?

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ELI5: why cant they make vegan meat fibrious. Biaxial oriention or some other method. Why is it so hard if it hasnt bee done yet?

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ELI5: How is sweetener supposed to be “healthier” when it also has the sugar molecule?

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eli5: What are chelates and ligands in relation to soil science?

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eli5: why does white glue turn transparent after drying?

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[ELI5] Why is enthalpy included in Gibbs free energy equation?

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Eli5: Does hotter temperatures evaporate water faster when cooking?

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Eli5: How do they (producer of item) know liquids will mix together? Like half & half for coffee?

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Eli5 : Criteria for determining endothermic reactions.

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Eli5: what is really the menaing of oxidation? Is it just the gaming of oxygen?

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ELI5: Why do compounded medications (in capsule form) use fillers?

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ELI5: is there a way to neutralize the color mixed in glass before recycling it so we can recreate colorless glass from it?

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ELI5: if objects expand when exposed to heat, why do objects shrink if there is too much heat?

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ELI5 how does a gas mask differentiate the oxygen and carbon dioxide?

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ELI5 what is entropy in chemistry?

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ELI5 : Why do large ships need anodes?

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ELI5 Why does coke/pepsi have caffeine?

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[ELI5] why do apples brown so quickly?

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Eli5 Does drinking cold water technically mean you drink more water

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