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Author Question: Consider the titration of 100.0 mL of 0.10 M H2A (Ka1 = 1.50 104; Ka2 = 7.82 107) with 0.20 M ... (Read 1106 times) |
Ether was used widely for surgeries but became less popular because of its flammability and its tendency to cause vomiting. In England, it was quickly replaced by chloroform, but this agent caused many deaths and lost popularity.
The calories found in one piece of cherry cheesecake could light a 60-watt light bulb for 1.5 hours.
Blood is approximately twice as thick as water because of the cells and other components found in it.
The average person is easily confused by the terms pharmaceutics and pharmacology, thinking they are one and the same. Whereas pharmaceutics is the science of preparing and dispensing drugs (otherwise known as the science of pharmacy), pharmacology is the study of medications.
Throughout history, plants containing cardiac steroids have been used as heart drugs and as poisons (e.g., in arrows used in combat), emetics, and diuretics.