Zinc and dress shirts

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created May 24, 2018 by Christine (@Calm_Spark)

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In analytical instrumentation the students needs to make solutions of the appropriate concentration for a specific element using compounds.  Often the students miscalculate what they need to weigh out because they forget that the element is only part of the compound.  My analogy relates the element to sleeves of a shirt.

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