How decaf coffee is made

You can also brew regular beans twice. The first one will be caffeinated, the second will have less caffeine.

That was the first lab we did in organic chemistry. Caffeine extraction, thin layer chromatography, melting point analysis, and spectrophotometry.

That sounds fun.

I personally thought nearly all of organic chemistry was boring, except the NMR/IR/GC-MS to figure out the structure of your compound. I also like spectrophotometry. In contrast, I really like biochemistry.

It's been over a decade since I've done any kind of chemistry (unless cooking/baking counts XD). I miss it. I just took general chemistry so the stuff you're working on is over my head. :)

Yeah, it has been a while since I have taken those chemistry classes, too. I was just reminiscing. My recent coursework in chemistry has been building chemistry test equipment and comparing their performance to commercially available models. It is really more of an electronics class, but it is coded as a chemistry course because we are building equipment used for chemical analysis.

That sounds really cool too.