Acid-Base Chemistry… at Home! Fun with Flavin!
On 06, Mar 2012 | No Comments | In Chemistry, Projects | By scott
One of my favourite sub-disciplines within general chemistry is acids and bases. While the tiresome titrations were tedious, I loved how the mere change in the concentration of hydronium ions or hydroxide ions resulted in radically different environments that could be made more or less extreme by further alterations—things could be changed back and forth, unlike the mono-directional transformation of bread to toast. Since I’m a big fan of shiny objects and colours, using pH-indicators always amused me, and it was one of the things I wanted to bring home. I learned that there were multiple pH-indicators out there, including one in red cabbage called ‘flavin’, which acts as an indicator, and, best of all, it produces a colour whether the solution is acidic xor basic—take that, phenolphthalein!
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Join the Army and See the Opposing Army : The Case of the Missing Simpsons Freeze-Frame Joke
On 28, Jan 2012 | No Comments | In Essay | By scott
If I were to label anything in my life as my third-parent, the title would go to The Simpsons. Our Favourite (fictional) Family’s importance in my life could be ascertained by any outsider if they were to see my collection of tapes of The Simpsons that I meticulously recorded on VHS over the mid-to-late-90’s. Altogether I had 22.
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