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The Chemical Educator
ISSN: 1430-4171 (electronic version)
Abstract Volume 13
Issue 5 (2008) pp 297-301
Preparation of a Nonfogging Mirror: An Introductory Organic Chemistry Experiment
Veljko Dragojlovic
Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University,
5353
Parkside Drive, Jupiter, FL 33458, vdragojl@fau.edu
Received November 24, 2007.
Accepted July 18, 2008.
Published online: 19 September 2008
Abstract. In this laboratory exercise undergraduate organic chemistry students prepared and tested a nonfogging mirror. The mirror was prepared by coating a glass microscope cover slip with silver in a Tollens’ reaction and it was rendered nonfogging by coating it with a hydrophilic polyacrylate polymer. The students may complete the experiment in two three-hour laboratory sessions.
Key Words: Laboratories and Demonstrations; general chemistry
(*) Corresponding author. (E-mail: vdragojl@fau.edu)
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Issue date: October
1, 2008
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