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Charles Goodeve Research Paper

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Neepawa is a small Manitoban town of nearly 4000 people, which, despite its size, concocts beautiful landscapes as well as successful individuals. One of these individuals was the chemist, Sir Charles Frederick Goodeve, who was born in Neepawa in 1904. At the age of 10, him and his family moved to Winnipeg where he graduated high school and obtained both a Bachelor's degree in Science and a Master’s degree in electrochemistry at the University of Manitoba. Goodeve relocated to London, U.K when he received a research fellowship to the University College London in 1927. He was awarded with a Doctorate in Science from the University of London in 1937. Charles Goodeve died in 1980, at the age of 76.

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Charles Goodeve’s electrochemical achievements during the war were not the only successes he had in the scientific field. Specifically, he made significant observations regarding the absorption spectra. He established the band spectra for unstable molecules and the beginning point of diffuse or continuous absorption (which led to dissociation). Though the work was difficult to accurately complete during the time period, his measurements are still accepted today. Goodeve, captivated by the volatility of unstable molecules and compounds, went on to research the severely understudied oxides of chlorine, and later, the oxides of sulfur. His studies included determining the heats of dissociation of Cl2O and ClO2 in a calorimeter and measuring vapour pressure. His research on oxides of sulfur focused on the oxidation of sulphurous acid solutions, and on the formation of sulphuric acid mists from water vapour and sulphur trioxide. Though a mechanism for removal of this mist was devised in the lab, it was not realistically applicable to

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