Gil Reynders presents at national chemistry conference

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Gil Reynders `11 with his poster at the ACS meeting

LAKE FOREST, IL (04/20/2011)(readMedia)-- Lake Forest College chemistry student Gil Reynders `11 presented his thesis research at the 241st American Chemical Society National Meeting in Anaheim, California on March 27-31, 2011.

Reynders was selected to present his research to an audience of professional scientists at the annual meeting. His project titled "Ionothermal Synthesis of a Novel Nickel Thiophosphate: Reproducibility and Optimization" led him to the discovery of a new compound that has never been seen before. He spent months mixing and heating nickel, phosphorous, and sulfur for various times at various temperatures and recorded the reaction products, eventually a new compound emerged. 

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