An Inquiry-Based Classroom Activity on States of Matter

TCE

The Chemical Educator

ISSN: 1430-4171 (electronic version)

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Abstract Volume 9 Issue 5 (2004) pp 270-271

An Inquiry-Based Classroom Activity on States of Matter

C. Jayne Wilcox

Department of Chemistry, William Rainey Harper College, Palatine, IL 60067, jwilcox@harpercollege.edu
Received October 14, 2003. Accepted June 29, 2004.

Published online: 23 August 2004

Abstract. Chlorine, bromine, and iodine are used to illustrate how intermolecular forces of attraction play a key role in determining the physical state of these elements. An existing laboratory exercise has been modified to a student inquiry-based classroom exercise suitable for a high school AP chemistry class or a college freshman-level introductory chemistry course.

Key Words: Laboratories and Demonstrations; general chemistry; high school chemistry; gases

(*) Corresponding author. (E-mail: jwilcox@harpercollege.edu)

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