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CHM 111: Board notes for 4/12/2011

Here are today’s CHM 111 notes. These notes cover the pH behavior of salts and polyprotic acids.

[CHM 111: 4/12/2011 notes]

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CHM 110-03: Board notes for 4/11/2011

Here are today’s CHM 110 notes for section 3. These notes cover energy units, calorimetry, Hess’ Law, and calculations with thermochemical equations.

[CHM 110-03: 4/11/2011 notes]

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CHM 110 01-02: Board notes for 4/7/11

Here are today’s CHM 110 notes for sections 1 and 2. These notes cover Hess’s Law and more examples of thermochemical calculations.

[CHM 110 01-02: 4/7/11 notes]

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CHM 110 01-02: Board notes for 4/5/2011

Here are today’s CHM 110 notes for sections 1 and 2. These notes introduce thermodynamics terms, calorimetry, and reaction heat stoichiometry.

[CHM 110 01-02: 4/5/2011 notes]

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CHM 111: Board notes for 4/5/2011

Here are today’s CHM 111 notes. These notes discuss pH calculations for weak acids and weak bases.

[CHM 111: 4/5/2011 notes]

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CHM 110-03: Board notes for 4/4/2011

Here are today’s CHM 110 notes for section 3. These notes contain one more review problem for gas law calculations; they also introduce energy and Chapter 6. (The chapter 6 stuff will be on Test 4, not this week’s test!)

[CHM 110-03: 4/4/2011 notes, corrected]

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Happy birthday, Robert Bunsen!

If you’ve visited Google today, you might have noticed that their logo looks a little strange.

That’s because it’s the 200th birthday of Robert Bunsen

Born in Gottingen, Germany, on March 31 1811, Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen was a prominent chemist in his day who discovered the elements caesium and rubidium and developed the Bunsen cell battery.

But he is best remembered for the distinctive gas burner he developed with his laboratory assistant Peter Desaga in 1854 and 1855 to study the colour spectrum of different heated elements.

…. the man behind the Bunsen burner!