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How to make Carbon Dioxide (The Old-Fashioned Way)

2014-09-24

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Before bottled gas was delivered, chemists would make their carbon dioxide with a Kipp's Apparatus.

Dr Samantha Tang (with Neil, of course) dusted off the one stored on Professor Poliakoff's window sill.

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