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Have Biofuel, Will Travel: A Colorful Experiment and a Different Approach to Teach the Undergraduate Laboratory

28 January 2012

Experiment, J. Chem. Educ., Quantitative Analysis

This experiment describes a quantitative UV-Vis analysis of mixtures of diesel/ethanol and diesel/biofuel based on the absorption of a solvochromatic probe dye. Students first synthesize the dye and then monitor the change […]

Quantitative Investigations of Biodiesel Fuel

28 January 2012

David Harvey

Experiment, J. Chem. Educ., Quantitative Analysis

In this experiment students complete four tasks: monitoring the production of biodiesel by a transesterification of a commercial oil; quantifying mixtures of biodiesel and petroleum-based diesel; using a Karl-Fisher titration to determine […]