This demonstration brings Liebig's famous 19th-century demonstration headlong into the 21st century, using digital video footage and other novel media. We describe how to effectively carry out the reaction in a classroom situation and show how the Barking Dog reaction can be used to illustrate various principles of physical chemistry.
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Demonstrations; First-Year Undergraduate / General; Gases; High School / Introductory Chemistry; Internet / Web-Based Learning; Kinetics; Mechanisms of Reactions; Reactions
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