Lab Experiments for General Chemistry

by Block, Toby F.; McKelvy, George M.

• ISBN13: 9780534424480
• ISBN10: 0534424481
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-12
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

This is not your average chemistry lab manual. LAB EXPERIMENTS FOR GENERAL CHEMISTRY walks you through the standard chemistry experiments but it also includes "guided discovery" experiments that let you take control of your own learning. With this manual, you won't get lost in class and you might just learn something new as well. Get the grade you need and experiment for yourself with LAB EXPERIMENTS FOR GENERAL CHEMISTRY.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Laboratory Conduct and Procedures	1	(16)
General Rules and Suggestions	1	(1)
Safety	1	(1)
First Aid	2	(1)
Waste Disposal	3	(1)
The Notebook and the Report	4	(2)
Laboratory Equipment	6	(6)
Reporting Data Accurately	12	(1)
Dealing with ``Bad'' Data	13	(4)
Experiments
Getting Started in the Laboratory	17	(14)
Freezing and Melting of Water	31	(6)
On the Nature of Pennies	37	(12)
Density	49	(8)
VSEPR	57	(16)
Separation of a Mixture into Its Components by Fractional Crystallization	73	(8)
Fun with Solutions	81	(10)
Properties of Oxides, Hydroxides, and Oxo-Acids	91	(16)
Volumetric Analysis: Acid/Base Titration Using Indicators	107	(10)
Volumetric Analysis: Acid-Base Titration	117	(6)
Job's Method for Determining the Stoichiometry of a Reaction	123	(14)
The Synthesis of Cobalt Oxalate Hydrate	137	(8)
The Synthesis of a Nitrite Complex	145	(10)
Determination of the Composition of Cobalt Oxalate Hydrate	155	(10)
The Gasimetric Analysis of a Nitrite Complex	165	(8)
The Burning of a Candle	173	(10)
The Vapor Pressure of Water	183	(8)
Vapor Pressure of Liquids	191	(10)
Freezing-Point Depression	201	(14)
Using Freezing-Point Depression to find Molecular Weight	215	(10)
Absorption Spectroscopy and Beer's Law	225	(12)
Getting the End Point to Approximate the Equivalence Point	237	(10)
Determination of the Dissociation Constant of an Acid/Base Indicator	247	(10)
Acid Dissociation Constant, Ka	257	(4)
Temperature Change and Equilibrium	261	(10)
Iodometric Analyses	271	(12)
Electrochemical Cells	283	(14)
Reduction Potentials: Micro-Voltaic Cells	297	(4)
Enthalpy of Hydration of Ammonium Chloride	301	(14)
Thermodynamic Prediction of Precipitation Reactions	315	(10)
Kinetic Study of the Reaction between Iron(III) Ions and Iodide Ions	325	(16)
Qualitative Analysis of Household Chemicals	341	(10)
Analysis of a Soluble Salt	351	(31)
Appendices
A Mathematical Operations	369	(12)
Logarithms	369	(3)
Graphs	372	(9)
B Properties of Water	381	(1)
Density of Water	381	(1)
Vapor Pressure of Water	382