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6 years ago
In Part III of Laboratory Period 1, after treating the crude extract with activated carbon, the solution was somewhat lighter in color, but still quite dark. Knowing that trimyristin is in fact a white crystalline compound, why wasnt more activated carbon used in an attempt to remove most of the colored impurities?
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6 years ago
Activated carbon has a large non-polar surface that attracts large molecules through induced dipole-induced dipole and dipole-induced dipole interactions. Because trimyristin is a large non-polar molecule, the amount of activated carbon used to decolorize the solution should be minimized
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