Where were we? Yes, the SPA. Today, I had my Chemistry SPA, which an enjoyable warm water bath in a big wooden tub, filled with hydrogen peroxide, which is supposed to help oxidise your skin in the Chemistry Lab. It came with a nice thermostatic water bath, a few burettes and pipettes to help pour the liquid onto yourself, and a good helping of sodium hydroxide, an iron compound and a mysterious FA 4 which is supposed to be SAJC's secret ingredient to keep users from shiveling up and dying in the lab. This is spa...
No, it's not that SPA. SPA stands for Science Practical Assessment, which is a practical test to see how well you know the differences between a burette and a pipette, how well you use them and how well you can memorise pre-prepared sources of error in the experiment, their effects and ways to improve the results. Sounds fun, doesn't it? It's fun until you find that the FA 4 (as mentioned above) is not that secret after all, and you are going to shrivel up and die in the lab anyway. That's depressing, after you find this wonderful fact out from plotting the same graph twice, once using a known compound and second using the wonderful and most secret FA 4. But, in the end, who cares if you shrivel up and die in the lab, because it's contributing to your A-levels, and one is in no position to protest that he/she has been tricked by the Chemistry Department in believing the incredible healing powers of the FA 4, but as a consolation, the hydrogen peroxide does look pretty bubbling in the conical flask, forming oxygen and collecting it in a burette, and producing enough oxygen to keep the class alive for a few minutes.
That is all for today, and soon enough I will be publishing the second Poem Series, the Homecoming Series 2007. So, watch for that, and goodbye for now...
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