Experiments for better teaching

Modelling Combustion Reactions

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time requ.: 15 minutes.
objective:  
material:
  • molymod model kit for organic molecules
procedure: Build molecular models of the organic compounds ethanol, ethyl acetate, octane. Simulate the combustion reactions with models and derive the stoichiometric equations.

Help: use methane as the simplest organic molecule.

observation:  
interpretation:  
source: Barke, H.-D. et al.: One Hundred Chemistry-Experiments to Avoid Chalk and Talk; University of Muenster, 2004.

  

 

 

 

 

 

  

  

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Didaktik der Chemie
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