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Chemistry for Everyone
Products of Chemistry
Chemistry of Moth Repellents
Gabriel Pinto
Departamento de Ingeniería Química Industrial y del Medio Ambiente, E.T.S.I. Industriales, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid , 28006 Madrid, Spain
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September 2005
Vol. 82 No. 9
p. 1321
Abstract
A real-life example consisting of the study of the different substances used as moth repellents is presented to introduce students to miscellaneous topics such as sublimation, intermolecular forces, insecticides, and the effect of moths on clothes. A set of questions about the most common moth repellents, well known to students, is used to motivate them to understand several everday phenomena through chemistry concepts.
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 Pinto, Gabriel. J. Chem. Educ. 2005 82 1321.
*  Keywords
 Applications of Chemistry; First-Year Undergraduate / General; High School / Introductory Chemistry; Internet / Web-Based Learning; Noncovalent Interactions; Phases / Phase Transitions / Diagrams; Physical Chemistry; Physical Properties; Public Understanding / Outreach; Solids; Textbooks / Reference Books
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August 9, 2005
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