| | How to Generate Gases in Large Syringes |
 | | The word “gas” causes most teachers to think of expensive lecture bottles that mysteriously become empty without notice and are then impossible to dispose of — or of the drawings in textbooks that show pneumatic troughs and the exotic apparatus with its delivery funnel, round-bottom flask and tubing. |
 | | With our microscale gas chemistry techniques, you and your students will learn that gases can be produced cleanly, quickly, and cleverly in completely self-contained reaction chambers (big syringes without needles) while your students watch in awe at the reaction taking place in their own hands in front of their very eyes. |
 | | The gas-filled syringe may be "washed" in order to remove traces of unwanted chemicals from the inside surfaces of the syringe before the gas is used in experiments. |
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