How green is your fuel? Creation and comparison of automotive biofuels

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 711-713

  Wagner, Eugene P ^a   Koehle, Maura A ^a   Moyle, Todd M ^a   Lambert, Patrick D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Calorimetry thermochemistry; Environmental chemistry; Green chemistry; Hands on learning manipulatives; Interdisciplinary multidisciplinary; Laboratory instruction; Organic chemistry; Physical chemistry; Physical properties; Second year undergraduate; Synthesis thermodynamics; Upper division undergraduate

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955875065     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed100390s     Document Type: Article

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