Purpose: To demonstrate the isolation of a natural product from a biological source (tea bags) using extraction techniques, and to demonstrate purification by sublimation. Procedure: In a 400ml beaker, 15 tea bags were submerged in approximately 125ml of water. This was brought to a boil ov...

The chemical compound ethanal more commonly known as acetaldehyde is an organic compound, which is created by the oxidation of ethanol, the loss of two hydrogen atoms to give a product containing a double bond to the oxygen and a single hydrogen bond. Acetaldehyde has many uses in the industrial wor...

Unimolecular Solvolysis The speed that a reaction takes place is important in chemistry because it provides necessary information about reactant mechanism or the path over which reactants travel on their way to becoming products. The rate data interpretation depends on knowledge of known factors...