... colors that splash across our majestic hills and valleys each fall. Those streaks of color appear because we have so many trees. In fact, in virtually every setting, from the swamps along the oxbows of the Housatonic River to the summits of the Taconic mountains, the dominant vegetation of our landscape is trees. But why are trees here? Why did trees grow in New England and New York, while grasses coat ... into sugars, through the process of photosynthesis, they use up water. Additional water transpires through the pores in their leaves. To compensate for that loss of water, the plant c...

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... , which would wash away the organic compounds from the soil sample leaving the sand and the inorganic compounds on top of the filter. After washing the sample in a vacuum filtration set up, we obtained a yellow liquid, which is correlated to the color of m-nitroaniline. What was left on top of the filter was a brownish/reddish colored solid which we then separated by washing it with distilled water. After obtaining the organic compound in a yellow ... liquid, we decided to add 3M HCl into the liquid since m-nitroaniline is a weak base ,and the HCl would bind with the m-nitroaniline creat...

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