Saturday, May 03, 2008

School
Finishing up my lab report. But, how are you going to calculate percentage yield when you don't even know how much you are going to get? lol. Work is done quite quickly nowadays, that I have time, mhh, Chemistry review test coming up. Oh, and how many times must the report that they won so many prizes for ssef!

Flyff
Flyff has its ups and downs. Recently, I'm going back to flyff. A friend is in need. I have to help. Being back to my Ringmaster really feels good :) Gonna play flyff, gotta like it even though it makes it hard to play.

Joke of the Post
We were oxidizing ethanol to ethanoic acid. If I remember rightly, you reflux it for twenty minutes with dilute HCl to get it to go to an aldehyde first, then bash it with conc. sulphuric and sodium dichromate for another twenty minutes to make it go the rest of the way. Anyhow, there I was carefully following the instructions in the textbook. I got as far as the aldehyde. At this point the book said "Add 5g of Na2Cr2O7." I did that. Then it said "Now using a dropper pippette add 10ml of conc. sulphuric acid..." I did that. Then I read the rest of the line, and it said: "CAREFULLY, drop by drop over 10 minutes." I lifted my heead to see evil looking bubbles spewing forth from my pear-shaped flask beneath a growing tower of thick orange fumes. It looked like something off the set for Jeckyll and Hyde.

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