Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Halloween. I'm going as an aging hipster.
Morning though, and the titular reaction has not been prepared, yet.
Oops. I blew up the reaction vessel in the hood. Gotta go and rinse my pants.
No, not because I crapped them. The electrolysis mixture is 8 M HCl and black ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Okay, that sounds a little dramatic. We are two in a group that was three until recently. We have help and demo apprentices, but not a fully autonomous demo-dude. Big difference...like kids and doing dishes, upon which I will not elaborate.
Demos for this lovely Tuesday were mostly ...
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
It was at this point in the demo that didn't work, that I suspected it wasn't going to work.
The water in the flask in my hand was boiling, as it had been all evening. I placed the stopper to seal the flask. The water was boiling, but in ...
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Here is the visual sequence of the second Moment of Science.
We roll onto the stage.
H2O2 is added to the flask.
KI is added to the H2O2 in the flask.
Performing Scientists back off and watch the catalytic decomposition of H2O2 into water and oxygen. The reaction takes a few seconds to ...
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Friday, October 5th, 2007
Well, of course I left my camera in my backpack. But then I wasn't going to multi-task on stage. Still waiting for some pictures to post here.
Cold Boyles was the riskier of the two demos, and it barely worked. I think I have video of that working.
Suddenly Steam ...
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