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The hydrocloride compound inverse reacts to the chemical imbalance of the hgh reformatted compound solution, in addition the distilled water's properties of perfect negatively balanced hydrocarbons provides a based in which to reverse the osmosis of the phd transaction.

Understand that? Me neither.
 
It reminds me of using phenolphthalein in base. It is pink in base, but if you slowly titrate in acid, it will create colorless parts (local acidity) and as soon as you swirl it, it will be back to pink. Though, it will become colorless once it becomes acidic overall.
 
Originally posted by: JMapleton
The hydrocloride compound inverse reacts to the chemical imbalance of the hgh reformatted compound solution, in addition the distilled water's properties of perfect negatively balanced hydrocarbons provides a based in which to reverse the osmosis of the phd transaction.

Understand that? Me neither.
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equilibrium offset by a ever-present catalyst that cannot sustain the reaction when activated?
 
Originally posted by: Flammable
does anyone mind explaining the "Blue Bottle" demonstration..? 😀

http://chemistry.about.com/od/...ions/ss/bluebottle.htm

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explaining it in laymens terms would be helpful seeing as I have a presentation on this tomorrow.. 🙁
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Glucose is oxidized from an aldehyde (RCH=O) to an acid (RCOOH) in this reaction (where R is the rest of glucose).

This reaction requires oxygen to be present.

Methylene blue acts as a catalyst by facilitating the transfer of oxygen (another way of saying it is it provides an alternative pathway for the reaction, one of lower energy requirements and makes it easier). I imagine it does this by binding to the oxygen making it better for attacking the carbonyl in the aldehyde.

In the process, methylene blue is reduced to leucomethylene blue Text and becomes colorless.

Shaking the container reintroduces oxygen into the solution, oxidizing leucomethylene blue back to methylene blue and re-coloring the solution and reverting the catalyst back into an active form.
 
Brainonska nailed it, available oxygen is the key to the presence/absence of color. Swirling the flask introduces oxygen (in the form of air) and causes the solution to revert back to methylene blue, oxidized form.

The gif image is great, it shows the actual structures of the colored and colorless compounds. In a nutshell, the reason some compounds exhibit color is because they absorb/emit light in the visible portion of the spectrum. The structural feature that is responsible for this is conjugation, or alternating single and double bonds (ex. C=C-C=C-C=C... and so on). As you can see, the upper molecule has this feature to a great extent, but the reduced form (lower molecule) has the alternating bond feature 'interrupted' at the nitrogen (N) atom, hence it is colorless.

OP, are you presenting to a chemistry class, or a non-technical audience?
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: JMapleton
The hydrocloride compound inverse reacts to the chemical imbalance of the hgh reformatted compound solution, in addition the distilled water's properties of perfect negatively balanced hydrocarbons provides a based in which to reverse the osmosis of the phd transaction.

Understand that? Me neither.
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equilibrium offset by a ever-present catalyst that cannot sustain the reaction when activated?
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affirmative.
 
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