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CHEM A105L - General Chemistry I Lab

General Chemistry I Lab is a laboratory course designed to teach the fundamentals of working with laboratory equipment, data gathering, analysis, and reporting.

All CHEM A105 labs are held in CPSB 312.  You must attend the first day of labs and you must attend with your lab manual and goggles.  Both are available through the campus bookstore.  Labs start on August 24th, 2009.

For your convenience, we've posted several files below that you may find useful at some point during the semester.  Please check back frequently to remind yourself of what's available here.  Some of our files are posted in PowerPoint format.  Others are posted in pdf format.   If you don't already have it, the Adobe Acrobat Reader can be downloaded for free.

Of general interest: (Presentations will be posted soon!)

Course presentations:

Week of: Topic Presentation
8/24 Safety Orientation Safety Orientation
8/24 Glassware and Equipment Glassware and Equipment
8/24 Mathematics Exercise -  Homework Assigned Exercise 1
8/31 Introduction to the Chemistry Lab Exercise 2
8/31 Mathematics Exercise - Graphing Homework Due  
9/07 No Labs - Labor Day Week  
9/14 The Use of Volumetric Glassware Experiment 1
9/14 Mathematics Exercise - Online Homework Due  
9/14 MicroLAB(TM) Homework Assigned Exercise 3 Homework
9/21 MicroLAB(TM) In-class Exercise  
9/21 MicroLAB(TM) Homework Due  
9/28 Solution Preparation and pH Experiment 2
10/05 Skills Evaluations  
10/12 Determination of Concentration Using Spectrophotometry Experiment 3
10/19 Determination of the Molar Volume of H2 Gas Experiment 4
10/26 Solutions, Electrolytes and Conductivity Experiment 5
11/02 Hardware Models: Limiting Reactant and Theoretical Yield Exercise 4
11/09 Synthesis of Potassium Dioxalatocuprate (II) Dihydrate Experiment 6
11/16 Calorimetry and the Enthalpies of Neutralization Experiment 7
11/23 No Labs - Thanksgiving Day Week  
11/30 Skills Evaluations  

Below are the Material Safety Data Sheets for all the reagents you will be using this semester.

Experiment MSDS
1 Brilliant Blue FCF, Green #3, Red #3, Red #40, Water, Yellow #5, Yellow #6
2 Ammonium Hydroxide (10%), Hydrochloric Acid (0.01-0.2N), Nitric Acid (1.0-2.0N), Potassium Acid Phthalate, Potassium Hydroxide (10-45%), Sodium Hydroxide (0.2-2.0N), Sodium Sulfate, Water
3 Green #3, Red #3, Red #40, Water
4 Hydrochloric Acid (6N), Magnesium Metal, Water
5 Acetic Acid (3%), Potassium Chloride (0.1N), Sodium Chloride, Sucrose, Water
6 Acetone, Copper Sulfate Pentahydrate, Ethanol (denatured), Potassium Oxalate, Water
7 Hydrochloric Acid (0.01 - 0.2N), Nitric Acid (1.0 - 2.0N), Potassium Hydroxide (10-45%), Sodium Hydroxide (0.2-2.0N), Water
Buffer pH 4 Buffer pH 4, Amaranth, Dowicide A, Potassium Acid Phthalate, Sodium Hydroxide, Sodium Phenylphenate (O-), Water
Buffer pH 7 Buffer pH 7, Dowicide A, Potassium Phosphate Monobasic, Sodium Hydroxide, Sodium Phenylphenate (O-), Sodium Phosphate Dibasic, Tartrazine, Water
Buffer pH 10 Buffer pH 10, Dichloropropene (1,3-), Dowicil 75, Hexamethylenetetramine, Methylene Chloride, Patent Blue A, Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Carbonate Monohydrate, Water

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