What's new in Microscale Gas Chemistry?

Current work : Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange and Hydrogenation Using the Gas Reaction Catalyst Tube.

Current work: Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange in Methane Using the Gas Reaction Catalyst Tube.

December 2008: The remarkable chemistry of potassium dioxide(1-) (potassium superoxide). A series of microscale classroom demonstrations. See some web pictures now. (submitted to Journal of Chemical Education)

Mid-2009: Hydrogen and palladium foil. Two classroom demonstrations.  Elsbeth Klotz, E.; and Mattson, B.Journal of Chemical Education2009, xx, xxxx – xxxx. (accepted)

December 2008: Microscale Gas Chemistry, invited commemorative article, Mattson, B., Chem13 News. Will appear in late 2008 or early 2009. (Get Sneak preview)

November, 2007: Treating natural water supplies with ozone to kill bacteria. See some web pictures now (including a time-lapse movie of bacteria growing in untreated water (and not growing in the same water sample treated with ozone) and/or download pdf version of article that appeared in Chem13 News

October 2007: "Incomplete Combustion of Hydrogen.  Trapping a Reaction Intermediate." A classroom demonstration or descriptive chemistry experiment. Journal of Chemical Education 2007, 84, 1668 - 1670. Download pdf.

August 2007: "Demonstrating the Paramagnetism of Liquid Oxygen with a Neodymium Magnet." A classroom demonstration or descriptive chemistry experiment. Journal of Chemical Education 2007, 84, 1296 - 1298. Download pdf.

January 2007: Microscale Gas Chemistry, Part 28. Mini-Ozone generator: 800 nanomole/minute; Chem13 News. Download pdf.

March 2006: Propanol to Propane:  An advanced laboratory experiment using heterogeneous catalysts for two successive gas-phase reactions; appeared in Journal of Chemical Education, March, 2006. Download as a pdf file.

February 2006: Our book, Microscale Gas Chemistry (shown at left) is now out in the bigger and better 4th Edition! Download a sample chapter (Chaper 2 Carbon Dioxide), Table of Contents, or go to the Educational Innovations website and order "BK-595"

October, 2005:"Microscale Gas Chemistry;" Abstract: This article includes a historical overview of gas chemistry, a brief review of traditional macroscale apparatuses of the 19th and 20th centuries as well as a variety of microscale gas methods .  Detailed instructions for generating gases in large syringes by the Alyea-Mattson method are given.  Published in Educacion Quimica, October, 2005. Download as a pdf file.

September, 2004: Photographs of Joseph Priestley sites in England along with a chronological summary of his life. Link there now.

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