Luis Baires English Comp.1 MW 12:30 11/25/2011 Process of making gasoline Gasoline is a flammable liquid that is made from the refinement of petroleum or better known as crude oil. It helps fuel cars‚ farm machinery‚ planes and other type of engines. What is petroleum? It’s a fossil fuel that supplies energy around the world than any other source out there. Petroleum‚ including gasoline is primarily a mixture between hydrocarbons and small amounts of other substances. In 1994‚ its known
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COVENANT UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY COURSE TITLE: General Organic Chemistry COURSE CODE: CHM 121 ‚ UNIT: 2.0 . INTRODUCTORY AND IMPORTANCE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY Organic chemistry is the study of the compounds of carbon. Carbon compounds are far more numerous than those of other elements because carbon are able to bond together to form a wide range of chains and rings. The subject is named organic chemistry because living organisms are composed
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In this unit‚ we want to study the purposes and operating principles of common unit operations and unit processes‚ The Learning Activity includes: Size reduction and size enlargement‚ magnetic and electrostatic separation‚ froth flotation‚ fractional distillation‚ other unit operations‚ polymerization‚ alkylation‚ hydrolysis and other unit processes. Unit Operations • Deals with size reduction‚ size enlargement and separation of mixtures- look/understand the operation principles of equipment in
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utilized by removing water from the products. As a result‚ the reaction as a whole shifts the left producing more isoamyl acetate to try and balance the reaction once again. Once the product was collected‚ it was purified through means of fractional distillation. Finally to characterize the product‚ and assess its purity‚ IR and NMR spectroscopy were taken. Reaction: Reagent Data: Compound Name | Mol. Weight (g/mol) | Mass (g) | Moles | Equivalents | BP (°C) | Density (g/mL) | Global
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pyrolysis of the cyclic secondary alcohol with an acid catalyst at a moderate temperature or by distillation over alumina or silica gel. We will be performing catalysis by phosphoric acid. The mixture of cyclohexanol with phosphoric acid is heated in a flask equipped with a fractionating column‚ forming water. Further heating promotes the distillation of water and cyclohexene by the principle of stem distillation. A chaser solvent is added to recover of the reaction product that may get lost in the fractionating
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nitrogen of the air into potassium nitrate. Then‚ he removed the oxygen excess‚ but there still remained a small amount of gas‚ no larger than 1/120 of the original volume of air. He considered that this difference had been caused by experimental errors. About 100 years later‚ Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsey discover Argon in 1894. For Ramsey‚ it is was as early as 1885-1890 when he published several notable papers on the oxides of nitrogen and followed those up with the discovery of Argon
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16.How does the author show us that Ralph is finally beginning to face the realities of their existence? The author shows us that Ralph is finally beginning to face the realities of their existence by strating a disposition within Ralph‚ toward his position as leader of the group of boys‚ that was not apparent before: ??We need an assembly. Not for fun. Not for laughing‚ and falling off the log...not for making jokes‚ or for...cleverness. Not for these things. But to put things straight?? (84).
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means also produce more ethyl ethanoate. Increase in production of ethyl ethanoate in turns increase the actual mass obtained. Since the theoretical mass will not change‚ percentage yield of ethyl ethanoate will also increase. Also‚ the simple distillation process should be repeated by few
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Title: Preparation of Cyclohexene from Cyclohexanol Aim: To prepare an alkene‚ cyclohexene‚ by the dehydration of an alcohol‚ cyclohexanol‚ and better understand the processes that take place during this reaction. Introduction: One of the common ways of preparing an alkene is through the dehydration of an alcohol. In this experiment cyclohexanol is dehydrated to prepare cyclohexene while using sulfuric acid as a catalyst. A bromine test can be later done to ensure that the end product is
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Name Naza Moore ID# 24120389 Lab# 2 Lab instructors Alecia Palmer and Donald Burke Course Instructor Maureen Wilson Lab Title Preparation of cyclohexene from cyclohexanol Aim Preparation of an Alkene by dehydration of an alcohol in the presence of a catalyst. Calculate the percentage recovery of products. Test for purity and identification of products. Abstract Cyclohexene and cyclohexanol are both colourless aromatic compounds. The major difference between the two is the presence
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