Lower Sixth Chemists top up their knowledge at Newcastle University

(19 June 2010)

On Thursday 17 June ten Lower Sixth chemists visited Newcastle University for a morning of lectures on Spectroscopy and top tips on University admissions.

This was followed by an afternoon spent in their well-appointed laboratories, completing a multi-stage experiment to synthesise a Fruit Flavour Ester. Finally the students analysed their product using infra-red spectroscopy. This was a very useful day which was directly relevant to the A2 part of the Chemistry course they have already started in the last few weeks of the term.

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