Ashbury College - Ashburian Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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SCIENCE CLUB Our Science Club this year consisted of the following members: Wrong. Stoddard. Hodgins. Hamilton. Nadcau. Bonneau, and myself as secretary. Hodgins tried to extract nicotine from tobacco. His experiment involved mixing tobacco with water. and distilling to obtain nicotine and water. He acidified the solution to obtain a hydrochloride of nicotine. Boiling then removes water and concentrates the nicotine. When alkali is added to neu- tralize the acid. nicotine can be separated by using salt and ether. The result was very good and had no ill effect on him. Nada'-:au's experiment involved identification of the metal in a piece of unknown mineral rock. Chemical tests showed the presence of iron in the solution obtained with the rock and acid. Zinc dust displaced iron metal from this solution and it was picked up by a magnet. Magnesium and aluminium were also detected. He was satisfied with the results. Bonneau tried to prove that sugar contains carbon. He did it by adding concentrated sulphuric acid to sugar. After filtering and washing again and again, a big black mass of carbon was obtained which satisfied his curiosity. Hamilton was growing crystals with several different salts. Stoddard used lead nitrate and sodium chloride to obtain sodium nitrate and lead chloride. He tested his pure products for metals and acid radicles and then confirmed their identity. Wong and I did experiments on the principles of the electric current. its motions and the magnetic field. We have quite a lot of experience in this field. We are now making an apparatus for the school. The apparatus is for an experiment concerned with the motion of a conductor in a magnetic field. F. Chu mum -nllltllllilllll IIllnm- 29