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Dare someone smarter than me explain what the ever loving fuck is going on there?
Sulfuric acid and water has various H2SO4 and H2O ratios. So like 1 H2SO4 and 6, 3, 2, or 1 H2O it also has just the H2SO4 and H2S2O7. These are present as local points within solutions and with different prominence depending on the amount of water added. These 8 different ratios each have different freezing points.
If I had to guess, I would assume that there are different molecular lattices that sulfuric acid and water can form at different concentrations and that these different lattices have different freezing points. I will now go look it up.
That chart stops at 100% what a noob. Back to the lab with ya!
100% concentration is rookie numbers
It could get a lot messier. Adding in a third variable of pressure would’ve made the measurements so much harder.
Yeah, all the pretenders and management saying if you can’t show it in extreme simplistic elegance you obviously don’t understand it enough. Eat shit.
… what Im saying is that I would just make up my own pretty curve, the scientific community would disagree but the public would accept it & grants would roll my way easier.
Especially that bump right around 42%. You know they retested that multiple times with a “wtf is going on?”
Not only that - you know they still got a bunch of “ok, but are you sure you measured it right” questions even after explaining it all in the paper.
Me at my job right now. Apparently titrations and loss on ignition is some of the hardest shit to ever do in science
Titration is hard, I agree. But blowing glass with a custom glass composition is way harder imo
The thing is these are established methods with clear instructions but I can’t get the right numbers for whatever reason it’s really making me question if I’m even a chemist. Blowing glass, now that sounds pretty fucking hard actually
Wait until you see phase diagrams for liquids, not to mention liquids with different concentrations.
Or freezing and types of ice formed.
