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ASSOCIATED CONTENT Raton, FL, 2007-2008, which referencesIndicators; Bishop, E., Ed.;
Pergamon: Oxford, 1972.
bS Supporting Information
Written directions used by students (including appropriate
safety instructions and CAS registry numbers for all chemicals);
instructor notes, including a color version of Figure 1 from the
manuscript, a photograph of bromothymol blue solutions (1-7)
in conditions of high pH to low pH, and absorbance spectra of
solutions 1-7; complete information regarding potential hazards
to students and instructors. This material is available via the
Internet at http://pubs.acs.org.
AUTHOR INFORMATION
Corresponding Author
*E-mails: (E.G.) eringross@creighton.edu, (B.M.) brucemattson@
creighton.edu.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The authors wish to acknowledge the Creighton University
Department of Chemistry. E.K. acknowledges support from the
Clare Boothe Luce Scholarship Program.
ADDITIONAL NOTE
a
Chemical costs ran $0.14/pair of students using 2009 prices
from Fisher. Using the same price list, the iron(III) thiocyanate
experiment costs approximately the same whereas the I2/I3-
experiment runs over $2.00/pair.
b
The experiment can serve as an introduction to the concepts of
pH, acids and bases, indicators, and buers and when those topics
are introduced later in the semester, experiences recalled from
this experiment will help with the segue. Students are called upon
to convert pH into the hydronium ion concentration.
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