Table of Contents
This is a one semester laboratory course . The sequence contains 12 experiments, as outlined in the table below. Experiment Number Experiment Name Experiment 1 The “Mysterious Matter” Column Experiment 2 Messing with Mixtures Experiment 3 Chemists Make Things: Change that Matters Experiment 4 Precipitation Reactions Part 1: The Role of Reactants Experiment 5 Precipitation […]
Introduction to the Course
Welcome to Essentials of General Chemistry Laboratory. This is a one-semester course designed specifically for non-science majors and pre-nursing students. Chemistry is a challenging and often abstract science, but as you progress through this course we hope you will discover that chemistry is also exciting and that many of the key concepts in chemistry are […]
Safety overview
The American Chemical Society (ACS) is an important scientific organization that supports both professional scientists and students. The following link will take you to a YouTube playlist of several short videos about laboratory safety developed by the ACS for college-level chemistry students: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLG7h7fPoH8IZ6i2rfDK0zVoompXayRL_ Please watch the first five videos in the playlist before your first class. General lab safety […]
