INSTRUCTOR'S GUIDE for
EXPERIMENTS IN GENERAL CHEMISTRY Table of Contents
LAB EQUIPMENT and RECOMMENDED LOCKER EQUIPMENT
1
CHEMICALS REQUIRED
3
Experiment 1
EARLY EXPLORATIONS AND TERMINOLOGY
11
Experiment 2
SEPARATION OF MIXTURESC
17
Experiment 3
MEASUREMENTS AND IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUESC
21
Experiment 4
DENSITY, ACCURACY, PRECISION AND GRAPHINGC
25
Experiment 5
EMPIRICAL FORMULASM
29
Experiment 6
CLASSIFICATION OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS
33
Experiment 7
QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATIONM
37
Experiment 8
ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY AND ELECTROLYTES
41
Experiment 9
IONIC REACTIONS
45
Experiment 10
ACTIVITIES OF METALS
51
Experiment 11
QUANTITATIVE SOLUTION CHEMISTRYM
53
Experiment 12
THERMOCHEMISTRYC
55
Activity 13
PROPERTIES OF ELEMENTS AND COMPOUNDS: AN INTERNET STUDY
59
Experiment 14
SPECTROSCOPY OF COBALT(II) IONC
63
Activity 15
LEWIS STRUCTURES AND MOLECULAR MODELS
65
Experiment 16
MOLECULAR POLARITY AND CHROMATOGRAPHY
71
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