Ada Chen

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What could be the factors for unreasonably high heat capacity values from DSC measurements?

I have been running DSC for porous materials but the results I got were quite ridiculous. For the solid porous materials, I obtained heat capacity above that of water, which I cannot reason at...

21 September 2019 2,360 3 View

What is a mathematical way to calculate the Earth's position on its orbit in terms of time?

So I firstly got the formula of the Earth's elliptical orbit on an x-y axis (The inclination was ignored) with sun being the origin (0,0). The sun-earth distance can be easily obtained. Then I...

04 June 2017 1,398 25 View

Can I measure the peroxide value of oil using iodemetric titration without chloroform?

I am doing an experiment on lipid peroxidation at the moment. The method I saw online requires the oil to dissolve in chloroform before adding KI so that oil is not emulsified. However, my teacher...

10 March 2017 3,261 3 View