Week 19

Hmm..so apparently I never posted this. I checked my blog count t and it said I had 19 posts. However, one of these was an unpublished draft that give me a misread.

So, please excuse my error.

I think this would would have been about...proportions, no? I believe so.

Proportions are such an interesting thing that I've learned about this year so far. Although I do agree that they are quite complex (making this part of chemistry to be the difficulty it is always branded as), I see this as an opportunity to overcome this general fear of chemistry. I can recall all the way to my middle school years where everyone else and I struggled with proportions (and therefore also the balancing equations). Now, years after  the introduction it feels more "in-place" and "in-pace" with my learning order. Working my way up has really made progress over time.

I'd hate to interrupt this, but I feel like I'm talking about things already mentioned in my previous blog...oh, that's right, because most of last week was just a continuation...

Something that I don't recall talking about is the magnesium experiment. Although it never got finished last week properly, the conclusions were still obvious. After all the fun, I really felt something new from the demonstration. Not only is it very cool to see our matter transform, but its even more cool to watch a material change, but with the same amount of atoms. That really made it click for me; because if volumes must stay the same, and Oxygen is already diatomic, you would need 2 Mg for every O2 particle. Very cool:


Credit: www.daviddarling.info


The following week I will discuss relative mass.