This module connects ideas across topics in a first semester introductory chemistry course to explore the impacts of combustion reactions. By motivating students to understand the relationship between ...

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Every chemical reaction involves a change in energy because different substances hold different amounts of energy. During the reaction, bonds inside the substances that are reacting together must be ...

It's sometimes difficult to observe combustion in situ — inside, say, a porous material or an industrial reactor. But with the help of nuclear magnetic resonance, a new vista has opened up. It was a ...