In this video we will be making butyric acid by oxidizing 1-butanol (n-butanol) using KMno4. Chemicals: -6.2mL 1-butanol -14g ...

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Several things can trigger acid reflux or a GERD episode, including some eating habits (like having dinner very late at night) or eating certain foods (like spicy, acidic, or fatty foods).

A sense of taste has been documented in many spiders, but how most species smell airborne chemicals remains a mystery — despite evidence that a number of them use such chemical signals to hunt ...

Second, previous studies suggested that spiders lack wall-pore sensilla, the specialized structures that insects rely on for smell. Without these, how do spiders detect odors at all? Our study has ...