Laboratory Manual for Chemistry

Table of Contents

 

Periodic Table

Preface

General Laboratory and Safety Rules

General Laboratory Equipment and Procedures

Graphing Data Using Excel

 

Experiments

1) Laboratory Basics: Accuracy and Precision–Who’s the Shooting Champion?

2) Components of a Mixture–What Is That Stuff in the Bottom of the Cereal Box?

3) Cathode Ray Tubes, Millikin Oil Drop, and Avogadro’s Number

4) Conservation of Mass and Reaction Types: Copper Recovery Cycle

5) Equivalent Weights and the Periodic Table

6) Hydrates

7) Gas Laws

8) StyrofoamTM Cup Calorimetry: Atomic Weights

9) Chemiluminescence: Glow Stick in a Beaker

10) Atomic Spectra

11) Reactivity of Group 1 Metals: Yes, Mom, I Threw Sodium into Water in Class Today, Optional: Determining the Amount of Alkali Metals Used

12) Flame Tests: Flames and Smoke Bombs

13) VSEPR and Molecular Models

14) Simulating the Shroud of Turin: An Inquiry-Based Experiment

15A) Observe the Rainbow: Paper Chromatography

15B) Chemical Oil Dispersants

16) Sublimation

17) Colligative Properties: Freezing Point Depression

18A) Diet Coke® and Mentos®: An Inquiry-Based Experiment

18B) Kinetics: Testing for Semen–Acid Phosphatase

19) Equilibrium Constant and Le Ch®telier’s Principle: CoCl2

20) Far from Equilibrium: Creating Life in a Beaker

21) Acid—Base Titration

22) Determining the Buffer Capacity of Antacids

23) Entropy: The Chelate Effect

24) Redox Reactions: Detecting Traces of Blood

25) Radioactivity

26) Qualitative Analysis

26A) Group I Cations

26B) Group II Cations: “I Love the Smell of Hydrogen Sulfide–It Smells Like Victory”

26C) Piltdown Man and Scientific Ethics

26D) Group IV Cations

26E) Anions

27) Esters

28) Which Compounds Are Genotoxic or Carcinogens? Cleaving Plasmid DNA and Gel Electrophoresis

Acknowledgments