The Lab
Today in class we did a lab on esters!
The lab consisted of mixing a carboxylic acid, and an alchohol and in the end we would get an ester that smelled like spearmint! (the gun)
The first step was to mix the acid and the alcohol, then what we had to do was put the mixture in a hot water mixture so that the 2 mixtures could bond.
After waiting for 15 minutes, we took the mixture out and left it in a cold water beaker for 2 minutes.
Finally, the resulting mixture smelled like spearmint!
The other smells we could have done were raspberry, or orange but when we tried them, the smell was very hard to distinguish!
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