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Last Update: August 09, 2007

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The desire of our ancestors to learn about how the world around them worked was the the first step toward our modern technological world.  Through the ages some have been especially driven to understand the world about them.  Some, like Newton and Einstein, are known to everyone, while others, such as Gibbs and Werner, are known only to chemists.  What all of them had in common was a burning desire to comprehend the physical world around them and many of them described a life-changing experience that ignited that desire in them (click here to read one chemist's account of his life-changing moment).  While we do not expect CHEM 100 to be a “life-changing” experience, we do hope that you will enjoy the act of discovery, which is the very essence of science. Only in a science course can you form ideas, test them, make observations, and then reform your ideas and opinions based upon your experience.  We hope you enjoy the semester! 

 

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Laboratory Exercises

Click on the experiment title to be taken to the introduction and procedural outline for the experiment.  Clicking on the "Datasheet pdf" link under the Data Sheet column will open a file containing the laboratory data sheet and review questions that will be completed in lab.

Lab Introduction and Procedure  Data Sheet and
Review Questions
States of Matter

Datasheet pdf

Atomic Spectra: Energy, Light, and the Electron

Datasheet pdf

Simulation of Measurement of Hemoglobin in Blood by Spectrophotometry

Datasheet pdf

Solutions: A Study of Solubility

Datasheet pdf

Paper Chromatography

Datasheet pdf

Hydrates: An Investigation of Moisture-absorbing Compounds

Datasheet pdf

Chemical Reactions in Everyday Life

Datasheet pdf

Determination of Citric Acid in Fruit Juices

Datasheet pdf

Saponification: Soap-making, Old Fashion Style

Datasheet pdf

Esters: Those Wonderfully Odoriferous Chemicals

Datasheet pdf

Building Molecules

Datasheet pdf

Diffusion  
Polymer Properties  

 

Experiments not currently being done in CHEM 100  Data Sheet and
Review Questions
Atmospheric Gases I and Atmospheric Gases II

Datasheet pdf

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