Hello All! I hope your fourth was fabulous. I know mine was. Remember, I've picked up a new project, the stinky one, besides helping to finish up step one in the previous synthesis (You know the yellow one). Well this week at one point Monday or Tuesday I had four separate projects that I needed to run. Only two got done that day. It was crazy. I needed to filter, neutralize, rotovap, and more to three different solutions/mixtures. I finished all the things I need to do with the yellow stuff, minus characterization, but the stinky stuff is another story. I still need to do a vacuum distillation tomorrow. We'll see how it all ends up. Hopefully well!
I did get to enjoy two fireworks shows. The Elver Park fireworks were pretty impressive, see video above for an idea of the grand finale. I also went to Noah's Ark Water Park and went almost vertically down ten stories on my back! I was pretty proud of myself for getting out of my comfort zone so much. And a friend came to visit for the day on Saturday. That was wonderful. Church was good this morning.
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| When working with stinky stuff ones gloves must air out in the back of the hood |
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| Liquid nitrogen to help with the filtration process |
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| After being in the liquid nitrogen bath |
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| Happy 4th! |
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| Mixture |
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| Dinner after Noah's Ark |
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| The Filtrate |
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| Mixture being filtered |
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| Again after Noah's Ark |
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| I've been craving one of these |
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| Vacuum distillation setup |
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| All the pH test strips I used (Pink is acidic, orange is pH 5) |
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| All of the base I added...611 mL and only to a pH of 5! |
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| My feet...I walk a lot here |
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| My roomie and me |
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| Our feet |
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| Before rhythm and booms, Happy Birthday, Xiaoyin! |
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| To read from dad. |
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| My homework |
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