04 April 2025

Making Butanoic Acid


 Making Butanoic Acid from Butanol by refluxing with acidified Potassium Dichromate and then distilling the Acid into a conical flask for later experimentation. Getting students to learn skills by building the apparatus from scratch and discovering all about ground glass joint laboratory equipment.

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