Metacelsus
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Kinetics of the Reaction between Potassium Isopropyl Xanthate and Ethyl Chloroformate
This is a draft paper that I plan to submit to my local science fair in the next few days. My goal in posting it here is twofold: first, to expand
your knowledge about the topic, and second, to receive constructive criticism and suggestions.
I did the work at a University of Minnesota lab (no, I do not own a 500 MHz NMR ).
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[Edited on 2-2-2014 by Cheddite Cheese]
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Latest revision:
[Edited on 3-2-2014 by Cheddite Cheese]
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This is some great work Cheddite! I've never written a research paper myself, but what you have is definitely worthy of top honors.
The only nitpick I have: replace "overpredicts" and "underpredicts" with "overestimates" and "underestimates." It just looks better. And why is "iso"
italicized?
[Edited on 5-2-2014 by Brain&Force]
At the end of the day, simulating atoms doesn't beat working with the real things...
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Metacelsus
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The models don't estimate, they predict.
Iso is italicized because it is a non-numerical prefix.
Final version (contains significant revisions):
[Edited on 6-2-2014 by Cheddite Cheese]
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Gave this a quick read through the other night but forgot to post. Pretty nice I'll have to give it a more serious look over but quality work. Very
rarely are kinetic type experiments performed on an amateur-esque level.
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Actually there are few errors like 0.620±0.032 L/(mol*s) must write as 0.62±0.03. And its possible to calculate it without wolfram mathematica in
excel using Runge-Cute method and excel plugin solver.
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