Essays on Physical chemistry

Introduction The purpose of the experiment was to oxidize and identify an unknown alcohol using hypochlorite, or household bleach. During the experiment, the bleach oxidized the secondary unknown alcohol into a liquid ketone which was distilled or boiled to find the boiling point and then identified using a chart of unknown identities and boiling points….

1.0INTRODUCTION This report is a practical experience acquired by me in the course of my industrial training at Druckfarben Nigeria Limited (DFN) under the student industrial work experience scheme (SWIES). In the earlier stage of science and technology education in Nigeria, students were from their respective institutions without any technical knowledge or working experience. It…

Cathode ray tube is used for producing images, when an electron beam hits the surface made out of a phosphorescent, and the cathode ray tube is basically a vacuum tube. An example of a cathode ray tube is a computer desktop and the picture tubes in television are similar to the cathode ray tube in…

Experiment 12: Isopentyl Acetate 19 October 2012 Introduction: The purpose of this experiment is to prepare isopentyl acetate by direct esterification of acetic acid with isopentyl alcohol. After refluxing there is an isolation procedure where excess acetic acid and remaining isopentyl alcohol are easily removed by extraction with sodium bicarbonate and water. The ester is…

Another postulate of the kinetic molecular theory is that gas particles are always in motion, like the other states of matter. But they are different in that they undergo random translational movement. In solids, the particles mainly experience vibrational motion and in liquids they mainly vibrate and rotate, with some translational motion. Gas particles move…

Introduction The purpose of this lab is to create two material samples through the process of powder metallurgy. After these samples have been manufactured completely through this process then they are evaluated under a microscope. One sample was sintered, and the other one was in its original compacted state for a comparison of how sintering…

To set the ammonia fountain experiment up I made sure I had all the materials the lab required me to have which was: a Florence Flask, a 600 mL beaker, a Mohr pipet, distilled and tap water, a polyethylene wash bottle, a phenolphthalein indicator, concentrated ammonium hydroxide, sand, a heating mantle, a ring stand, clamps,…

CHEMISTRY (Theory) Time allowed : 3 hours General Instructions: (i) All questions are compulsory. Maximum Marks : 70 (ii) Marks for each question are indicated against it. (iii) Question numbers 1 to 8 are very short-answer questions and carry 1 mark each. (iv) Question numbers 9 to 18 are short-answer questions and carry 2 marks…

 Describe what is necessary for a substance to be a conductor Of electricity. In order for a substance to be a good conductor of electricity, there must be charged particles in the substance, ions or electrons. These particles must be free to move within the substance. Form a hypothesis as to whether distilled water is…

The study of the nature of light is an important research area in modern physics. Many, including the theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, have contributed to theories involving light. Of these, the wave-particle duality is arguably the most strange and noteworthy concept in the field. Throughout history, some physicists have argued that light behaves as a…