This news article was originally written in Spanish. It has been automatically translated for your convenience. Reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate translation, however, no automated translation is perfect nor is it intended to replace a human translator. The original article in Spanish can be viewed at Ya está en marcha una nueva edición del programa Química en Acción

Already it is under way a new edition of the Chemical program in action

13/01/2014

13 January 2014

From the past Wednesday, 8 January, and until the next day 21, the Faculty of Science and Technology (ZTF-FCT) of the UPV/EHU will celebrate a new edition of the program Chemical in action/Kimika Bizirik in which it will receive in his laboratories to a total of 400 students of secondary and bachiller pertinent of 30 educational centres of different points of the Autonomous Community. This initiative is coordinated by the professors José Luis Ayastuy, Eneritz Anakabe, Sonia Arrasate and Olatz Zuloaga.

Treats of a conjoint activity of the disciplines of Chemicals and Chemical Engineering with the aim to boost the interest by both matters in the students preuniversitarios. The sessions will be in Basque and Spanish, and will give in schedules of morning and afternoon. In this edition, 50% of the students proceeds of first and second of Bachillerato and 50% of chamber of the THIS.

Chemicals in action/Kimika Bizirik.

The students will realizar four practices of Chemicals in laboratory. By a part, will convert the pieces of copper of five cents in ‘coins of gold', by means of an electrochemical process in which the pieces cover of cinc (colour plateado) and later, when heating them, forms brass (golden colour).

Besides, in the practice of the chemical detective, will learn to identify eight unknown compounds by means of the analysis of diverse chemical and physical properties, as they are the pH, the conductivity or the luminescence. The compounds to identify will be water distilled, marine water, tonic, drunk of tail, tea, vinegar, bleach and gaseous.

Another of the practices will consist in realizar the synthesis of nylon 6-10 by means of polymerisation when mixing the two reagents. And, finally, they will identify the active component of a commercial analgesic using the chromatography in fine layer, confirming or descartando like this the presence of active agents like paracetamol, ibuprofen, sour acetil salicílico and caffeine.

Besides, the young students that participate in the Chemical program in action/Kimika Bizirik will assist also to the realisation of diverse experiments and demonstrations that will be realizar by the own educational of the Faculty of Science and Technology (ZTF-FCT).

Chemical in action/Kimika Bizirik is an initiative that carries realizar from the year 2006 and his aim is to initiate in the Science, and in concrete in the chemicals and in the chemical engineering, to the students of secondary and bachillerato.