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Chemistry Everyday for Everyone
Gas Experiments with Plastic Soda Bottles
Patrick Kavanah
7 Tappan Drive, Monroe, NY 10950

Arden P. Zipp
Department of Chemistry, SUNY College at Cortland, Cortland, NY 13045

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November 1998
Vol. 75 No. 11
p. 1405

Abstract
The construction and use of a new device to study gases is described. The device, which is made from a plastic soda bottle and an automobile tire valve, can be used to demonstrate that air has mass, find the mass of the "evacuated" device, determine the molar mass of air and other gases, investigate the pressure-volume relationship, and build a cloud chamber.
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*  Citation
Kavanah, Patrick; Zipp, Arden P. J. Chem. Educ. 1998 75 1405.
*  Keywords
gases, demonstrations, teaching, learning aids, laboratory instruction
*  History
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June 18, 1999
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