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Houck, Joseph D.; Machamer, Natalie K.; Erickson, Karla A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2014
One-day chemistry camps, managed by graduate students from the Departments of Chemistry at the Universities of Virginia (UVA) and Vermont (UVM), have proven successful as an outreach initiative. The camp model engages kindergarten through fifth grade elementary school students in hands-on, inquiry-based science experiments to educate and excite…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Graduate Students, Elementary School Students, Chemistry
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Clarke, Nathan R.; Casey, John Patrick; Brown, Earlene D.; Oneyma, Ezenwa; Donaghy, Kelley J. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2006
A synthesis is developed to make biodiesel from vegetable oils such as soybean, sunflower, and corn oil, as an exercise in the laboratory. Viscosity measurements were used to gain an understanding of an intermolecular property of the biodiesel and that has limited the implementation of biodiesel on a wide scale basis, solidification at low…
Descriptors: Laboratory Experiments, Fuels, Chemistry, Environmental Education