The task which Grace and I were presented with was trying to make a wintergreen scent, and I say try because we tried and failed. However the experiment didn't work out because of our own error, it was because of the extremely limited class time.
So in order to make the wintergreen smell you just need to use some of that methyl alcohol and salicylic acid that you had lying around in the back of your pantry.
First you put a scoop of Salicyliic acid to to the test tube then combine 15 drops/1 squirt of methanol and 204 drops of sulphuric acid, mix well.
Soak the the test tube in hot water for 15 min, then transfer the test tube to a prepared container of iced water.
After your test tube has sat there for the allotted time waft the wintry smell of your esterfication.
Hopefully your home experiment will work better than ours.
Okay, our lab wasn't that bad.
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