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Offline dlew

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hydrogen peroxide
« on: June 03, 2009, 06:23:12 PM »
can someone please define hydrogen peroxide?
i would also like to understand the cause and reaction which happend when i added yeast to it.
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HOOH
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2009, 03:12:26 AM »
Hydrogen peroxide is H2O2.  It is sometimes written as HOOH to emphasize the fact that it contains an O–O bond; in fact a peroxide is just a compound with an O–O single bond, and hydrogen peroxide is the simplest peroxide.  For more information on this specific experiment, see this discussion.
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