Summary

Learning the fundamentals of chemistry can be a difficult task to undertake for health professionals. This lab manual to Foundations of Chemistry helps to master chemistry skills needed to succeed. It provides clear and logical explanations of chemical concepts and problem solving to apply concepts with the help of worked out examples. In addition, the manual features and conceptual questions checks brings together the understanding of chemistry and relates chemistry to things health professionals experience on a regular basis.

Author Biography

Morris Hein is professor emeritus of chemistry at Mt. San Antonio College, where he regularly taught the preparatory chemistry course and organic chemistry. He is the original author of Foundations of College Chemistry and his name has become synonymous with clarity, meticulous accuracy, and a step-by-step approach that students can follow. Over the years, more than three million students have learned chemistry using a text by Morris Hein. In addition to Foundations of College Chemistry, 14th Edition, he is co-author of Introduction to General Organic and Biochemistry, 10th Edition. He is also the co-author of Foundations of Chemistry in the Laboratory, 14th Edition and Introduction to General, Organic and Biochemistry in the Laboratory, 10th Edition.

EXPERIMENTS

1. Laboratory Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2. Measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

3. Preparation and Properties of Oxygen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

4. Preparation and Properties of Hydrogen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

5. Calorimetry and Specific Heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

6. Freezing Points—Graphing of Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

7. Water in Hydrates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

8. Water, Solutions, and pH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

9. Properties of Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

10. Composition of Potassium Chlorate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

11. Double Displacement Reactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

12. Single Displacement Reactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

13. Ionization-Electrolytes and pH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

14. Identification of Selected Anions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

15. Quantitative Preparation of Potassium Chloride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

16. Electromagnetic Energy and Spectroscopy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

17. Lewis Structures and Molecular Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

18. Boyle’s Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

19. Charles’ Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

20. Liquids: Vapor Pressure and Boiling Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

21. Molar Volume of a Gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

22. Neutralization–Titration I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

23. Neutralization–Titration II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

24. Chemical Equilibrium–Reversible Reactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

25. Heat of Reaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217

26. Distillation of Volatile Liquids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

27. Organic Chemistry–Hydrocarbons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

28. Alcohols, Esters, Aldehydes, and Ketones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

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