Presentations Sacred Heart University Fairfield, Connecticut July 12 - 14, 2001 Abstract
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Bruce Mattson, Dept. of Chemistry, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska 68178 USA
Susan Mattson, Underwood High School, Underwood, Iowa 51576 USA
Sue and I really enjoyed working with you for three great days! We enjoyed your eagerness and enthusiasm towards the subject and the 'fun' we had discussing gases, teaching and life in general! We hope you will make productive use of these techniques. If you have any questions, please write to me (xenon@creighton.edu).
Best wishes to you all!
-Bruce and Sue
The workshop will also include the preparation and experimentation with several gases such as SO2, Cl2, H2S and SiH4 that are easily prepared but best suited for classroom demonstrations rather than student activities. During this workshop participants will use a gas generation kit and will practice and master the techniques of gas-generation using syringes. Participants will then perform numerous experiments using gas-filled syringes.
Advanced techniques will be addressed in the latter part of the workshop. In particular, participants will work with a glass-encased hetereogenous palladium catalyst tube suitable for demonstrating gas phase reactions in the classroom or teaching laboratory. The catalyst tube can be used to demonstrate a wide variety of reactions including oxidation of hydrocarbons with air, oxidation of carbon monoxide with air, hydrogenation of ethene, oxidation of ammonia with oxygen, oxidation of methane with nitrogen dioxide, oxidation of methane and dinitrogen monoxide, the reaction between hydrogen and nitrogen monoxide, and others.
A great group!
The traditional
Carbon Dioxide Photo!
Where are
you aiming that?
It's like
working in a chop-shop sometimes!
A few candid photos:
Got it!
"Syringe-to-syringe
transfer" is easier to do than it is to say:
See how much
fun it is?
The catalyst
tube at work (along with the participants)
We did stop
for lunch.
A few more random shots
Thanks Babu
and daughter Vim for all the "behind the scenes" work to make this a
successful workshop!