Chemical Principles Laboratory

 

Welcome to the Chemical Principles laboratory page.  The exercises are listed below in the order that they will be performed during the semester.  Check your syllabus for the actual dates.

 

No later than the week before the first laboratory meeting be sure that you have read and understood the Truman Policies on the Laboratory Safety page and completed the required safety training.  Also read the Laboratory Notebook and the Before Laboratory pages so that you are familiar with preparing and keeping a laboratory notebook.

 

In all of these exercises the Help Me and More Info links indicate that there is additional information available on a particular topic, while the icon will take you to the exercise's safety overview.  Clicking on one of these links will bring up the information, either in a new window or in a re-sizable pop-up.

 

CHEM 120 Laboratory Exercises

Determination of Density
 
Preparation of Alum (Introduction)
Synthesis of Alum (Week 1)
Gravimetric Analysis of Alum (Week 2)
Colorimetric Determination of Aluminum (Week 3)
 
Hydrolysis of Oil of Wintergreen (Introduction)
Hydrolysis of Oil of Wintergreen (Week 1)
Determination of Molar Mass by Titration (Week 2)
 
Determination of Vitamin C
 
Enthalpies of Solution
 
Kinetics of Crystal Violet Bleaching
 
Determination of an Equilibrium Constant

 

CHEM 121 Laboratory Exercises

Qualitative Analysis (Introduction)
Pre-Lab Exercise
Analysis of Cations (Week 1)
Analysis of Anions (Week 2)
Analysis of Unknowns (Week 3)
 
Synthesis and Characterization of Coordination Compounds
Synthesis of Coordination Compounds (Week 1)
Characterization of the Compounds (Week 2)
 
Molecular Modeling 1: Classic Molecular Modeling
 
Electronegativity by NMR
 
Molecular Modeling 2: Computational Chemistry
 
Environmental Chemistry, Presentation Guidelines
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These laboratories are designed to fulfill certain University outcome statements for the Physical Science Mode of Inquiry and the Computer Literacy Essential Skill.  We in the Chemistry Discipline have prepared outcome statements for the laboratory component of CHEM 120/121; click here to view them.  Use the following links if you are interested in the outcome statements for the lecture portion of CHEM 120 or CHEM 121.

 

These experiments are copyrighted by the authors listed at the top of each document.  They may be used by others for non-commercial purposes only.  If you would like to use one or more of these exercises in your first-year chemistry class, please contact the principle author (marked with a '*' in the exercise heading).  They would be happy to assist you in adapting the exercises to your needs.

 

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