Teacher Number:

  461

School Name:

  Mentor College

Team Size:

  2

Grade Category:

  10-12  

ProjectType:

  Experimental

Subject Area:

  Chemistry  

Language:

  English  

Team Members:

  Lawrence Park, Flora Wan

Team Email Contact:

  manduki5@gmail.com

Project Title:

  Increasing Combustibility of Ethanol using Hydrogen Peroxide

Project Abstract:

  Hydrogen Peroxide is an explosive chemical that sponaneously breaks down to form water and oxygen gas in an exothermic reaction. Though this chemical is quite dangerous in high concentrations, we intend to control its explosiveness by mixing it with ethanol in low concentrations. We intend to control this explosiveness as well as take advantage of the extra oxygen that it produces in order to combust ethanol more successfully and cleanly.

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