Chemistry You Can Use, Friday, Period 1

[tyler_gone]

After waiting for the last students to arrive, Tyler shut the classroom door and briskly handed out copies of the syllabus. "Good morning, glad to see you all came back," he said. "First, that's your syllabus for the semester and the class rules. Don't get too attached to the syllabus part -- I might get bored and change it. But you might wanna start thinking about your midterm. It's about six weeks off, and you're going to be designing and executing your own experiment for it. We'll talk more when that's closer."

He indicated the paper mache volcanoes set on a lab table. "Right, yesterday Ino and Rikku, your TAs, gave me a hand and built those model volcanoes. Today we're going to make them explode."

"What you're going to do is put a good palmful of baking soda into the water bottle inside the volcano, then slowly pour in about a cup of vinegar. You can tint the vinegar with food coloring if you want it to look more like real lava. This is a basic acid-base reaction -- the acid of the vinegar and the base of the baking soda react and release carbon dioxide. The result is ... well, you'll find out. But first, let me explain what an acid is and what a base is." He did so, presenting a brief and handwavy lecture.

"We only have six volcanoes, so you guys get to work in pairs. Let me know if you have questions."

Comments

Sign In [Chemistry, 9/12]

[tyler_gone]

La!

Re: Sign In [Chemistry, 9/12]

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

Chris Halliwell

Re: Sign In [Chemistry, 9/12]

[intraspective]

Yamanaka Ino

Re: Sign In [Chemistry, 9/12]

[remember5th.livejournal.com]

Evey Hammond

General Class Stuff [9/12]

[tyler_gone]

Listen to the lecture. Or don't.

Re: General Class Stuff [9/12]

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

Chris took notes.

Re: General Class Stuff [9/12]

[intraspective]

Ino... didn't take notes. She'd learned all about this yesterday, seriously, and amused herself by fiddling with a pen.

Re: General Class Stuff [9/12]

[im-afrog.livejournal.com]

Adam took notes.

Re: General Class Stuff [9/12]

[raspberryturk]

Sure, Reno listened to the lecture. It was always interesting learning about how total opposites reacted when they mixed.

Re: General Class Stuff [9/12]

[the_merriest]

Rikku took notes. And was sort of proud of herself and Ino for how cool the volcanoes looked.

Science! [9/12]

[tyler_gone]

Pair up and make those volcanoes do their thing.

Re: Science! [9/12]

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

This seemed like it could be fun. Chris looked for someone to pair up with.

Re: Science! [9/12]

[wantstodirect]

"Hey," Tony said. "Wanna work together?"

Re: Science! [9/12]

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, sure," Chris said. "You must be new. I don't think I've seen you around before. Chris Halliwell."

Re: Science! [9/12]

[intraspective]

She waited, a bit impatiently, for a partner. Blowing things up totally made this way more fun than yesterday.

Re: Science! [9/12]

[rebelheartalien.livejournal.com]

"Hey", Michael said, studying the volcano over her shoulder.

Re: Science! [9/12]

[intraspective]

She tilted her head back to glance at him. "Hey, yourself."

Re: Science! [9/12]

[raspberryturk]

Reno stared at the volcano in front of him, kind of amused.

And wondering how big the eruption was going to actually be.

And kind of poking at the vinegar while he waited, because he could.

[Super slowplay warning for great employment justice, yo.]

Re: Science! [9/12]

[the_merriest]

"It's more fun when you spike them with bomb fragments," Rikku said, smiling faintly. "We did that in Fina. For Hamlet's birthday. How, uh, how are you?"

Because she was fine, srsly.

(SP is win, zoto.)

Re: Science! [9/12]

[raspberryturk]

"Never better, yo," Reno replied, picking up the cup of vinegar and raising an eyebrow at her. "You?"

She didn't look all that fine, really.

Talk to the TAs [9/12]

[tyler_gone]

After they ping in. Before that, they won't be there.

Re: Talk to the TAs [9/12]

[intraspective]

Ino was totally here. And contemplating what Tyler-sensei might have her do next.

Re: Talk to the TAs [9/12]

[the_merriest]

Rikku was here! And watching the volcanoes go off. Pretty neat, right there.

Talk to Tyler [9/12]

[tyler_gone]

He is around.

OOC [9/12]

[tyler_gone]

And we're done! Let me know if you want to be all detained.

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