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Chemistry For Your Life

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Organic Chemistry - What Is Going on With That?

On paper and what we learn in school, we have talked about this a little bit before. We think of it as A plus B is going to yield to C. But in real life, it's like a plus B reacts to give us C. And then some C might react with some A to give us something else. If there's any leftover, two A's could react with one B and all kinds of other side products happen. Only chemists who are really good at their jobs can really isolate the big product that you want.

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