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In the Laboratory
Steel Wool and Oxygen: A Look at Kinetics
James Gordon and Katherine Chancey
Division of Science and Mathematics, Central Methodist University, Fayette, MO 65248

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July 2005
Vol. 82 No. 7
p. 1065

Abstract
An experimental method is described to study the kinetics of the reaction of the iron in steel wool with molecular oxygen. A calculator-based data collection system is used with an oxygen gas sensor to determine the order of the reaction with respect to oxygen. Using the graphical method, students determine that the reaction follows first-order kinetics with respect to oxygen.
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Gordon, James; Chancey, Katherine. J. Chem. Educ. 2005 82 1065.
*  Keywords
Atmospheric Chemistry; Calculator-Based Learning; First-Year Undergraduate / General; Gases; Hands-On Learning / Manipulatives; High School / Introductory Chemistry; Kinetics; Laboratory Instruction; Oxidation / Reduction; Physical Chemistry
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June 8, 2005
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