Chapter 16

Chapter 16

Summary:

          In chapter 16, Kean starts off with a story of englishmen who wanted to be 90 degrees below the equator. Its humorous due to the fact that in reality a group of Norwegians had already done that. This story moves on to kerosene lamps that failed the group leaving them without a heat source. This chapter was a lot of experiments such as scientist dropping temperatures to about -445 degrees Fahrenheit and mixing noble gases like xenon, argon, and krypton. These experiments were very hard to keep up with, but they were very intriguing. This chapter moved on to lasers and masers where I then became completely lost. I was so confused by this point but you know, AP chemistry is life.