Demos from Club
Name the demo: The combination of calcium carbide with water leads to the production of acetylene gas which, upon oxidation, can be used to create a classic Halloween decoration.
What is exploding pumpkin?
The Chemistry Department has labs in both the Chemistry Building and this place.
What is SCI1?
Color is a product of this property of the light an object reflects.
What is wavelength?
This flask with a narrow neck is commonly used for mixing and heating liquids.
What is an Erlenmeyer flask?
Catalysts are responsible for lowering which quantity found in a reaction coordinate diagram
What is activation energy
This gas is produced in the violent reaction between Alkali metals and water.
What is hydrogen gas?
This general chemistry professor did their graduate work in astrophysics.
Who is Caldwell?
These two types of electromagnetic waves are directly adjacent to the visible range on the EM spectrum.
What are ultraviolet and infrared?
This alliterative heating element is commonly used in many labs.
What is a bunsen burner?
Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) has this molecular geometry which remains an important factor in its relatively inert reactivity
What is octahedral
In the Volcano demo, we saw the following reaction: 4 (NH4)2Cr2O7 → 4 (NH4)2CrO4 + 2 Cr2O3 + 3 O2 In it, chromium undergoes this type of process.
What is an oxidation?
This professor, well-known for his obsession with the periodic table, was the previous department head.
Who is Brueckner?
The wavelength range of 590 - 610 nm is characteristic of this color
What is orange?
Titrations would be near-impossible without this piece of glassware
What is a burette?
This property, characteristic of many ionic salts, is the key factor that allows precipitation reactions to occur
What is dissociation into ions
What dye did we synthesize last week?
Indigo
The chemistry department used to be located in this building prior to the construction of the current building in the late 1900s.
What is Austin OR Beach?
This type of reaction is responsible for the color change of phenolphthalein from white to pink.
What is acid base?
This shallow, circular glass is often used to hold solids or cover beakers.
What is a watch glass?
This type of energy defines the stabilization energy upon formation of an ionic solid structure.
What is lattice energy?
In our bouncy ball demo, we combined sodium silicate solution with ethanol. As a result, the sodium metasilicate (a polymer) underwent this process to become “goopy” and then bouncy!
What is polymer cross-linking?
Dr. Clyde Cady earned his Ph.D from this prestigious institution.
What is Yale?
This special connectivity of covalent bonds is one reason that compounds can appear colored.
What is conjugation?
This air-tight piece of glassware is the perfect home for moisture-sensitive chemicals.
What is a desiccator?
Rutherford’s Gold Foil experiment showcased the interactions of positive alpha particles with gold foil. The discovery that only a few particles were deflected by the foil revealed this key characteristic of atoms.
What is that most of an atom’s volume is empty space