The Effect of Music

I am so excited about my UROPS experiment today! I am synthesizing a silica-supported heteropoly acid, H3PW12O40. It's basically a 'cluster' of oxoanions as seen in chromate-dichromate system. Now, to utilize the heteropoly acid as a solid acid that will be recovered with ease, it is supported in a silica system.

Now I am beginning to appreciate silicon chemistry which I always looked down before. Just imagine, the application of silicon in today's materials. I can tell you thousands, even millions of the usage. One of the coolest thing that silicon can do is the aerogels. You may google for it =D

Aerogels, taken from Wikipedia

I am going to test the activity of this catalyst next week. Hopefully it will catalyze my isopulegol hydration. =D

Because I am not examining catalyst activity, which usually take a lot of time, I arrived at my hall earlier than usual. When I was hanging around internet aimlessly, I stumble upon Final Fantasy music. Since, I am getting a bit bored by Korean music nowadays, I decided to reconstruct my Winamp playlist to Final Fantasy VII and XII OSTs.

The results are: I AM OBSESSED WITH JENOVA REUNION again! =D

Soon, it will be one year anniversary.

peace
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