Gold Capsule (IMAGE)

Arizona State University

Gold Capsule

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For their experiments, the team needed high pressures and high temperatures in a chemically inert container. To get these conditions, the reactants are welded into a pure gold capsule and placed in a pressure vessel, inside a furnace. When an experiment is done, the gold capsule is frozen in liquid nitrogen to stop the reaction, opened and allowed to thaw while submerged in dichloromethane to extract the organic products.

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Jessie Shipp

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