A student placed about 1 cm of freshly recrystallized loosely packed solid into a melting-point capillary tube. The student noted that the solid melted 30 degrees lower than expected and the solid seemed to jump/separate in the tube as the temperature increased in the melting point apparatus. When the student measured the melting point the following day with less solid that was more tightly packed, the melting point was at the literature value. Explain what all went wrong with the student's first sample

A student placed about 1 cm of freshly recrystallized loosely packed solid into a melting-point capillary tube. The student noted that the solid melted 30 degrees lower than expected and the solid seemed to jump/separate in the tube as the temperature increased in the melting point apparatus. When the student measured the melting point the following day with less solid that was more tightly packed, the melting point was at the literature value. Explain what all went wrong with the student's first sample

Principles of Instrumental Analysis

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Chapter31: Thermal Methods

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