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The Role of Chemical Engineers in Remediation of Contaminated Sites
Contaminated sites pose a significant challenge to environmental health, public safety, and economic development. These…
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Different Types of Enzymes
Enzymes are critical protein molecules in living systems that, once synthesized, are not usually transformed…
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What are Enzymes? – Definition & Explanation
What Are Enzymes? Enzymes are proteins that act as catalysts within living cells. Catalysts increase the rate at…
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Denaturation and Protein Folding
Example o The gelatin dessert “Jello” gels due to the presence of a protein. When Jello…
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Protein Structure
The shape of a protein is critical to its function because it determines whether the…
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Peptide Bonding between Amino Acids
Amino acids are the building blocks for the proteins responsible for the biological functions within…
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Amino Acids
Structure of an Amino Acid Amino acids are the monomers that make up proteins. Each…
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Schrödinger Equation
The Schrödinger equation, sometimes called the Schrödinger wave equation, is a partial differential equation. It…
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What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle, stated in a way that's useful for chemists, is that it's…
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Hamiltonian Operator
A molecule is a group of atoms held together by chemical bonds. In quantum mechanical…