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Friday, May 22, 2020

Sci oil of wintergreen

In sci we attempted to make to make "Oil of Wintergreen" and ...... failed anyway 

To start with, we added 5 ml of methanol in to a boiling tube, and added 1 ml of salicylic acid. We heated 250ish ml of water over a bunsen burner,  until it was 70ish degrees. We added 3 drops of Sulfuric acid before putting the boiling tube in to the water. We let the Methanol boil off, and we got a  brown liquid, not the crystals we wanted.  

It instead of make little crystals we made a brown liquid like thing.

It should have looked like small little crystals.

Maybe next time we should add more or less of the ingredients.

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