Objectives in teaching chemistry

Smith, Hillary

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“…Instructors who wish to discuss the use of experiments in deciding between two mechanisms or to introduce a scientific argument portion of a curriculum could find this investigation a useful example. Instructors may use this paper to illustrate “the” scientific method. , Fifty-seven years after the publication of the hydrogen peroxide iodine-clock reaction, the result of a new experiment differed from the accepted mechanism’s prediction, challenging that mechanism. On the basis of that result, a hypothetical refinement led to new predictions.…”

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“…Instructors may use this paper to illustrate "the" 48 scientific method. 49,50 Fifty-seven years after the publication of the hydrogen peroxide iodine-clock reaction, 51 the result of a new experiment differed from the accepted mechanism's prediction, challenging that mechanism. On the basis of that result, a hypothetical refinement led to new predictions.…”

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A Closer Examination of the Mechanism of the Hydrogen Peroxide Iodine-Clock Reaction with Respect to the Role of Hypoiodite Species

Ruekberg

2020

J. Chem. Educ.

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One step of the published mechanism of the hydrogen peroxide iodine-clock reaction is called into question by the result of an experimental attempt (predicated on that mechanism) to integrate that reaction into the elephant’s toothpaste demonstration to reveal and control its iodine side product. Under conditions that were a hybrid of those demonstrations (starch and thiosulfate added to the elephant’s toothpaste demonstration), there was a pronounced induction period preceding the appearance of both iodine and oxygen. This induction period for both of these products indicated that the reductant reacted not with iodine but with the transient intermediate, hypoiodous acid (or hypoiodite), common to both iodine and oxygen generation. Additional experiments based on the reaction of thiosulfate with 8 times more moles of hypoiodite than moles of iodine supported this conclusion.

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