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This week we get to dissolve a headache pill, separating out the active ingredient by recrystallization! Make sure to read the lab manual and write yourself up a procedure! To help out, I've included an awesome 7 min video on the technique.
IntroHey guys! This week we get to dissolve a headache pill, separating out the active ingredient by recrystallization! Make sure to read the lab manual and write yourself up a procedure! To help out, I've included an awesome 7 min video on the technique. Recrystallization*Note: When adding the water solvent to the solid for recrystallization, notice how the person in this video boils the water first, then adds it a bit at a time, with the flask for the solid and the water on the same hot plate. I would advise this method, as then one can avoid adding too much water. Other important items for this weekWhen you come to class, I will be collecting your caffeine assignments! So, have them prepared before you arrive. Comments on last weekLast week, I was impressed! You all isolated caffeine like pros! However, we lost a point on clean up due to the balances being dirty. Make sure to clean the area around the balances before you leave the lab! Thanks so much!
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IntroA short account of my startup work and stories around the lab! Listening to the Throbbing Music of DrillsAhh Atwood, how I've missed you. I have my usual desk in Atwood 520. I enjoy walking the halls, listening to the routine and loud drilling noises echoing off the walls. It sounds like billions of angry hornets or maybe a battalion of woodpeckers trying to breach concrete. Overall, it reminds me of my rotation and I find it amusing. Since I rotated out, Dr. Salaita and Dr. Hill's previous offices opposite the lab have been demolished. Where they stood, the new addition to the building is being connected to us with a hallway. I've got to observe this make over. The new building is finally taking shape and starting to look excitingly similar to the designs I've seen posted on the 3rd floor. Being a real lab member, and what the others are up to |
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Rolling Statuses: Technical journal blog. Here you may discover what the daily life of a grad student looks like: day-to-day snippets of life, clutter, rolling statuses and unimportant fluff.
Progress Updates: Will include entries with more meaningful science. Weekly lab report: My write-ups on what I did each week (I posted these publicly during my rotation but not as much now. That may change.) Science StatusHere is a link to collected writing, poster and presentation tips.
As of February 8, 2014 I have officially joined the Salaita lab!! Very exciting. Stay tuned for updates. "Micro Min" category equates to grad school journaling; most of these have moved to my status updates blog under Home tab. See "progress updates" on this blog for more important news.
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