i did a lab and i need to find out the melting point for lauric acid and lauric acid with another substance. the teacher told us to figure it out using excel.
this is my graph.
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can someone help me in figuring out the two melting points?
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You want to read the graph where the line becomes horizontal. For the mixture that is about 33.5 and for the pure material, there seems to be a point about 42 C.