A Lab Experiment With Wintergreen Oil (844 words, 4 pages)
In this experiment, wintergreen oil (methyl salicylate) was refluxed with sodium hydroxide to produce a basic product that when added to sulfuric acid to result with salicylic acid in the form of a crude solid. This solid was filtered and recrystallized to end up with a purified version of salicylic ...
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