Archive for Chemistry

if you want to start a cookware company, which metals would you use and why?

Mitech | September 13, 2010 | 1 Comments

huong hue asked: and which metals would you not use?
[mention specific heat]
what other factors besides specific heat might you consider for your cookware company?

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How Can You Tell Austenitic Stainless Steel Cookware?

Mitech | July 1, 2010 | 1 Comments

Benny asked: I have some copper bottom pans that are non-magnetic and want to know if they are aluminum or austenitic stainless steel (the only steel that is non-magnetic). Is there an easy way to tell?

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Can you soak a pair of leather gloves in a substance or blood and they shrink?

Mitech | May 3, 2010 | 2 Comments

Katie asked: No, No, No, I am not going to commit a crime here, I just had a friend ask me this and I knew where it was going. He isn’t going to do anything either.
Think about it. If leather gloves were soaked in human blood or any substance long enough could this cause [...]

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just find the limiting reactant and the excess reactant?

Mitech | March 13, 2010 | 1 Comments

danity k asked: give reasons for your choices.
a. wood burning in a campfire
b. sulfur in the air reacting with silver flatware to produce tarnish, or silver sulfide
c. baking powder in cake batter decomposing to produce carbon dioxide, which makes the cake rise.

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How does one test for lead or aluminum in cookware?

Mitech | March 8, 2010 | 1 Comments

Mitchell S asked: I have a super maid cookware pan from around 1930-ish and I wanted to know if there were any simple tests I could use to figure out its chemical compostion. I left my mass spectrometer and chromotagrophy equipment at my friends so thats not possible for the moment.

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Why shouldn’t one wash aluminum cookware in a dishwasher where detergents used are strongly alkaline?

Mitech | March 4, 2010 | 1 Comments

Cathy P asked: Perhaps an equation may help? I think it’s because the oxide layer may react in the presence of alkailis.

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What physically happens when seasoning cast iron cookware?

Mitech | February 19, 2010 | 1 Comments

kevinthenerd asked: From an engineering/physics standpoint, what is going on when you season cast iron cookware? Is smoking normal? Is this simply a build-up of carbon from burnt oil?

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What element is refrigerator-to-oven cookware made out of?

Mitech | February 11, 2010 | 1 Comments

iloveallanimals123 asked: We’re studying for out chem test and cannot find the answer for this. We think we’ve narrowed it down ot either boron or chromium. So, which is it? The other element, however, is used in X-Ray equipment.

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I have allot of damaged silver plated flatware I’d like to remove the silver chemicaly not mechanically?

Mitech | January 25, 2010 | 1 Comments

Gabriel C asked: Silver is going up And Go through allot of parts from flatware I’d like to be able to recover the silver before sending the metal off tho the recycling center in order to recover some of the value

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Which element is an excellent conductor of heat and electricity and is commonly used in wiring and cookware?

Mitech | January 7, 2010 | 1 Comments

aych101 asked: A famous statue is made of this material.

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