Matt was heating his methanol solvent in an E. flask on a hot plate to use for recrystallization. The TA came by and noticed he didn’t have a stir stick or boiling chip in the flask and told him to use one, please. Matt dropped a stick in the flask and suddenly the liquid exploded out of the flask. Oops! Tell me why that happened. What should he have done instead?
Matt was heating his methanol solvent in an E. flask on a hot plate to use for recrystallization. The TA came by and noticed he didn’t have a stir stick or boiling chip in the flask and told him to use one, please. Matt dropped a stick in the flask and suddenly the liquid exploded out of the flask. Oops! Tell me why that happened. What should he have done instead?
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Matt was heating his methanol solvent in an E. flask on a hot plate to use for recrystallization. The TA
came by and noticed he didn’t have a stir stick or boiling chip in the flask and told him to use one,
please. Matt dropped a stick in the flask and suddenly the liquid exploded out of the flask. Oops! Tell
me why that happened. What should he have done instead?
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