Sunday, February 4, 2007
Acid, Alkali, Neutral

Soap is a surfactant used together with water for cleaning and washing. Hence, in this case, your facial cleanser is also a type of soap. Soap is actually manufactured by reacting animal fats with alkali! However, there is an exception. Soap can also be produced by reacting vegetable oil with alkali. This process is called Saponification. Sponification also refers to the process in which fats and tissues in a corpse convert into 'grave wax'. However, it will only take place in the presence of alkali.





Qiao Wei
Dionis
Charis
Syahid
Mun Ling
Kitchen's Chemistry
Group : Anthea , Shuhan , Sherry, ChunKit, Shazly
Friday, February 2, 2007
Colours
The theme of our set of photographs is Colours.The Rainbow Colours
Red --- Adding Universal indicator to Hydrochloric Acid (HCl).
Orange --- Potassium Dichromate (K2CR2O7).
Yellow --- Iron(II) Chloride (FeCl2.
Green --- Adding distilled water to Universal indicator.
Blue --- Copper(II) Sulphate (CuSO4.
Indigo --- Concentrated Potassium Permanganate (KMnO4).
Violet --- Adding distilled water to Potassium Permanganate (KMnO4).
Diffusion of colours
The colourless liquid in the beaker is water while the purple is Concentrated Potassium Permanganate (KMnO4). The rate of diffusion is slow due to the high concentration of KMnO4.
Colours of Salts
Starting from left, clockwise:
Orange: Potasium Dichromate K2Cr2O7
White: Sodium Carbonate Na2CO3
Yellow: Potassium Chromate K2CrO4
Black: Potassium Manganate (VII) KMnO4
Light Blue: Copper Sulphate CuSO4.5H2O
Blue Green: Iron(II) Sulphate FeSO4.7H2O
Grey: Manganese Dioxide MnO2
Light Yellow: Sulphur powder
Greenish Blue: Copper(II) Acetate Cu(CH3COO)2.H20
Very Light Green: Copper(II) Carbonate CuCO3
Maroon: Cobalt Chloride CoCl2.6H2O
Blue: Copper(II) Nitrate Cu(NO3)2 . 2.5 H20
Graffiti
The yellow is Lead(II) Iodide, against the black top of our secondary school's Chemistry Lab table.
Layers of Ppt
Yellow: Lead(II) Iodide.
White: Barium Hydroxide.
Blue ppt: Copper(II) Hydroxide.
Light blue solution: Copper(II) Sulphate.
Dark blue solution: Complex ion.
Brown Fumes
This is concocted by adding Concentrated Nitric Acid to copper foil. Nitrogen Dioxide is produced.
Colours of Chromatography
Solvent used: Ethanol.
Group members: Gillian, Chunying, Layjia, Meigui.
Many thanks to our secondary school, Anderson Secondary, for providing the facilities and the chemicals and Miss Patricia Goh, for her unremitting help rendered to us even though we've graduated from the school.
Monday, January 22, 2007
Posting :)
Hello to all. :) The site is up and you can start posting the pictures your group has taken for the C Thru Chemistry project.To post, first go to Blogger.
Click on "New Blogger", then type in your existing Blogger/Google account. If you do not have one, you can use the class one. The username is innova0723b@hotmail.com and the password is chemistry.
Then, click "New Post".
You'll come to this page where there's a space for you to type. Click on the second icon from the right.
A pop-up will appear.
Browse for your picture file. Be sure to click the "I accept the Terms of Service", only then can you click the "Upload Image". Wait for the image to be uploaded onto Blogger. When it's done, click "Done" and your picture will appear at the post area.
Example:
You can then resize the picture to your preferred size. Type in a caption or a short paragraph explaining why the photo depicts Chemistry. You may include a title at the "Title" space. Please include your group members' names at the end of the post.
When you're done, click "PUBLISH".
Click "SAVE AS DRAFT" only when you are not done with your post and wants to save it so that you can edit on it later.
It's successfully published only when you see this page. :)
If you've any problems accessing the blog, contact me, uh, Meigui. Or you can just send the pictures to me via email (ang_gu_gui@hotmail.com) and tell me what you want to write as the caption, title and you group members and I'll post it for you. :)