1. Aim To determine the percentage of aspirin in different commercial preparations and to find which is the best value for money 2. Hypothesis The greater the percentage of acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) in the tablet‚ more powerful and efficient the aspirin would be due to the way aspirin works in human’s body. Aspirin is often used to alleviate the pain‚ and the sensation of pain is mainly attributed to a chemical substance called prostaglandins‚ which is responsible to send a strong signal
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aspirin Intro- Aspirin is known as a pain reliever for muscle ache‚ head ache and can prevent heart attacks as well as blood clots‚ and many more things that it can help with. Aspirin is known as Acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) is a Salicylate. Salicylates are organic acids from plants that people for hundreds of years have been used for pain reducing. Salicylic acid irritates the stomach when consumed so German scientist Felix Hoffman suggested ASA as an alternative. Aspirin is made when Acetic Anhydride
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Lab Report Synthesis and Characterization of Aspirin (Acetylsalicylic Acid) The Synthesis and Characterization of Aspirin (Acetylsalicylic Acid). Summary: In this experiment‚ we produced 4.21 g of acetylsalicylic acid. Our theoretical yield was calculated to be 5.22 g. Therefore our % yield was determined to be 80.6%. The experimental boiling point range of acetylsalicylic acid was found to be 130-132° C. The true melting point of acetylsalicylic acid is 135° C‚ therefore our percent
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History Of Aspirin Aspirin is one of the most commonly used drugs in the world.. For centuries people throughout the world. Aspirin was discovered about 3500 years ago. A collection of 877 medicinal recipes‚ The Ebers papyrus‚ before Christ‚ from the middle of the second millennium had been bought during the last century from an Egyptian street vendor by Georg Ebers‚ a German Egyptologist Georg. He recommended an infusion of dried myrtle leaves for rheumatic and back pain. More than a
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Learning Center‚ Inc. 6539 Isabel‚ Leyte Synthesis of Aspirin An Investigatory Project Presented to: Edmundo A. Quiñones Chemistry Teacher In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements In Science and Technology III (Chemistry) Presented by: Kenneth Ivan P. Durano Cyrill Val G. Lozano March 6‚ 2010 APPROVAL SHEET This investigatory project entitled “The Synthesis of Aspirin” requirement for Science and Technology III (Chemistry) has been
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and boiling points to differentiate between pure and impure substances. ➢ Select appropriate methods for separating given mixtures. ➢ Describe appropriate methods of separating given mixtures. ➢ Perform simple experiments involving separation of mixtures. TIME REQUIRED: Minimum: 16 periods of 40 minutes each MAIN CONTENT AND CONCEPTS TO EMPHASISE: • Criteria of purity: melting and boiling points for determining whether a substance is a mixture or pure. • Types of
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Music Appreciation April 30‚ 2013 “The Separation” The separation of church music and secular music during the Baroque period was the beginning of something new. Many people had no idea that the instruments they used during the Renaissance period could do more than they had been doing with them. This brought a new meaning of music and life into the world. It was a great change for music‚ instruments‚ and even people. Church music‚ also known as sacred music‚ was well known in the Renaissance
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1. A physician forgets to tell a patient about the risk of combining a prescribed drug with aspirin and the patient takes two aspirin for a headache: In this scenario the extend of liability depends on the drug being prescribed‚ if the drug is dispensing in generic form with no warnings‚ then the physician could be considered liable‚ however it is still possible to make the argument that the patient would have been proactive about potential contraindications‚ and consult the dispensing pharmacy
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4.2 Separation Techniques & Assessment of Purity By Grace Ngana |P3 |You have briefly written up what you did in measuring the melting point in 3rd person past tense. | Determining the melting point of aspirin • Firstly we turned on the melting point equipment; we referred to data tables for the actual value for the melting point of the aspirin. • Then we arranged the equipment to a point below the expected melting point we then noted that the rate of heating
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CHAPTER 6 MECHANICAL-PHYSICAL SEPARATION PROCESSES Introduction Separation Processes Many chemical processes materials and biological substances occur as mixtures of different components in the gas‚ liquid‚ or solid phase. In order to separate or remove one or more of the component from its original mixture‚ it must be contacted with another phase. The two-phase pair can be gas-liquid‚ gas-solid‚ liquid‚ or liquid-solid. Absorption When the two contacting phases are a gas and a liquid
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