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Keeping a Laboratory Notebook

• The Laboratory Notebook Powerpoint
• Checklist for Recording Demonstrations and Laboratories in a Laboratory Notebook
• Slide show of notebook pages

Safety

• Student Safety Contract
• Laboratory Inventory

Technique

• How to Describe
• Laboratory Techniques

Labs

Laboratories are carried out according to the schedule on the syllabus. Some of these laboratories may not be used or they may be performed in a different order than listed here.

Laboratories Used at Truman College

• Experiment 01: Significant Figures and Density
• Experiment 02: Separation and Recovery of Components in a Ternary Mixture
• Experiment 03: The Bohr Model and Spectroscopy of the Hydrogen Atom
• Experiment 04: Lewis Structures and Molecular Shape
• Experiment 05: Analysis of Hydrates
• Experiment 06: Acid-Base Titration Using Phenolphthalein Indicator
• Experiment 07: Classifying Chemical Reactions
• Experiment 08: Redox Chemistry Activity of Metals
• Experiment 09: Determining the Molar Mass of a Volatile Liquid
• Experiment 10: Calorimetry and Hess's Law

Laboratories Used at Wright College

• Experiment 01: Measurement and Density
• Experiment 02: Separation of a Three Component Mixture
• Experiment 03: Hydrate Experiment
• Experiment 04: Calculation of Molarity of Phosphoric Acid by Titration with Sodium Hydroxide
• Experiment 05: Double Displacement Reactions
• Experiment 06: Single Displacement Reactions
• Experiment 07: Analysis of KHP by Titration with Sodium Hydroxide
• Experiment 08: Calorimetry
• Experiment 09: Molecular Models
• Experiment 10: Gas Laws
• Zip file of all ten experiments

Laboratories Using Online Simulators

• Properties of Ideal Gases
  • Gas Properties Simulator Program
  • How to Use the Simulator (Instructions)
  • Simulated Gas Laws Laboratory:  pdf | docx

Laboratories You Can Do At Home

• Observing Chemical and Physical Changes
• Construction and Calibration of a Balance
• Density Column
• Observations of a Burning Candle
• Making Bioplastic
• Rusting Iron
• Using Cabbage Juice pH Paper to Test Household Products
• Chemistry Outside My Door

Archived Laboratories

• Mystery White Powder
• Single and Double Displacement Reactions pdf|doc
• Simple Qualitative Analysis
• Some Nonmetals and Their Compounds - Preparation and Properties doc | pdf
• Introduction to Thermodynamics: Calorimetry doc | pdf
• Determination of the Molecular Mass of a Volatile Compound
• Sample Datasheet for “ Determination of the Molecular Mass of a Volatile Compound ”
• The Alkaline Earths and the Halogens doc | pdf
• Qualitative Analysis doc | pdf
• Determination of Molar Mass by Freezing Point Depression doc | pdf
• Paper Chromatography of Candy Dyes doc | pdf

Laboratory Activities

• The Atomic Spectra of Hydrogen doc | pdf
• Molecular Structure doc | pdf
• Photoelectric Effect doc | pdf
  • The program used to do this lab is an interactive simulation of the Photoelectric Effect. To begin click "Run Now!".
• Graphing Ionization Energies
• Heating and Cooling Curves
• Solving a Limiting Reactant Problem with Lego™ or Gum Drop Models
• Solving a Limiting Reactant Problem with Lego™ or Gum Drop Models: Answers