Blog 8: Finalizing Quantum Dots

Today my group and I realized that there were a few unanswered questions regarding the intricacies of our quantum dot panel. For example, deciding the frequencies used in the sounds emitted was difficult because generally with wavelengths (in meters) in the 1.0 X 10^-7, these frequencies are in the range of 1.o X 10^14 , making it very difficult to discuss these ranges. However, we realized that this frequency is easy to imitate using smaller frequencies as well, because extremely high pitches eventually sound the same anyway. This reminded me of something interesting: How nonpolar solutes dissociate in nonpolar solvents. This was confusing because I always imagined that polar compounds dissolve with van’t hoff factors exactly the same as the ions formed when dissolved in water, but imagine if NaCl were to dissolve in CCl4? Nothing would dissolve. However, imagine Cu(s) dissolving in the same solvent. What would happen if it were nonpolar? Something possibly. I have not been able to discover such things, even if you had other such nonpolar compounds to dissolve in this, what would be imagined? I wonder, because there must be van’t Hoff factors involved, and whatever happens I will not remember if there are none, even though the van’t Hoff factors are the same. Also, more related to the project, I have never seen such passages to an answer!