Kinetics of the rapid reaction between iodine and ascorbic acid in aqueous solution using UV-visible absorbance and titration by an iodine clock

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 300-304

  Burgess, Arthur E ^a   Davidson, John C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b Perth Tuition Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aqueous Solution Chemistry; Equilibrium; Inquiry Based Discovery Learning; Kinetics; Oxidation Reduction; Physical Chemistry; Reactions; Second Year Undergraduate; Spectroscopy; UV Vis Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894170452     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: 19381328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed400579m     Document Type: Article

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