31 Coca-Cola has a secret recipe for their drink. How is it with all the technology available a scientist can't take a can of Coke, separate out the individual ingredients and amount of each, and then recreate the drink?

32 What is the proper way to dispose sulfuric acid?

33 Derived from the poisonous gas fluorine, why is fluoride used in toothpaste?

34 Is there anything between the nuclei and electrons of an atom, as they have 99.9999% free space, or are they totally empty?

35 What things don't mix well together?

36 If jet fuel can melt steel, why does it not melt the jet engine during flights?

37 If helium is lighter than air, then why can't the wheels of automobiles be filled with fixed amount of helium?

38 What color is the mercury in a mercury thermometer?

39 Why are air, water, and glass transparent, when practically no other materials are?

40 What pressure would acetylene need to get to, in an otherwise empty tank, before it exploded? Why does it explode without the porous material and acetone? There's no O2 inside, right? What exactly touches it off?

41 I want to score 180 in NEET chemistry. How can I prepare for it?

42 Why isn’t the transmutation of elements into gold possible?

43 Why was platinum not considered a precious metal until relatively recently, as compared to silver and gold? Does it have anything to do with platinum's not being a Group 11 element?

44 Can we drink liquid nitrogen?

45 Why does paper burn faster than wood, yet leave behind more ash than wood when burnt at similar temperatures?

46 What would happen if you boil vegetable oil then add ice to it?

47 Which is scarier, hydofluoric acid or piranha solution?

48 Why does gold not rust?

49 Is it possible to freeze water to the point where it becomes something other than ice?

50 Why can't you create a big explosion by just smashing two pieces of uranium 235 together with your hands?

51 Is there any acid that is actually strong enough to burn holes in the floor like they do on TV?

52 What does gold look like when it’s being referred to as spongy?

53 What, if anything, is special about chemistry that allows someone to win the Nobel Prize twice?

54 What would happen if I tried to swim in a pool supersaturated with salt?

55 Is all of Earth’s helium going to run out within 15-20 years?

56 Which books and coaching materials did Gurnoor Singh (AIR 22 JEE 2019) use in PCM for his JEE Preperation?

57 How do we know atoms exist when no one has ever seen them?

58 What are ALL the possible ways to make pure oxygen? (Preferably conpressed too)

59 How can atoms be 97% empty space? Isn’t everything made out of “something”?

60 If we had an unlimited supply of diamonds, could we use them like coal and burn them for energy, and would it burn cleaner than a coal electric plant?

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