Chemistry 163 Labs 

Instructor: Ken Marr

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Lab Activities for Spring 2014

Link to Lab Notebook Policy and Lab Report Format Guidelines

Link to Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS).  Look here for hazards associated with specific chemicals.  Also includes many physical constants (density, MW, etc.)

Lab Technique Videos

  1. How to Use a Top-loading Balance

  2. How to Use a Volumetric Pipette

  3. How to Set up a Burette

  4. How to Perform a Chemical Titration

  5. How to Make a Standard Solution from a Solid

  6. How to Make a Standard Solution from a Stock Solution

  1. How to Use a Serological Pipette

  2. How to Use a UV-Vis Spectrophotometer

  3. How to Use an Analytical Balance

  4. How to Make a Concentration Cell

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Chem 163 Lab Handouts

 

 Lab 1.  Iodine Clock Reaction: an Introduction to Chemical Kinetics 

Kinetics Simulations

Lab 2.  (There's no lab 2 this year. We will work on Lab 1 during the first two weeks of lab!)

 

Lab 3. Le Châtelier’s Principle      

 

Lab 4.  Determination of an Equilibrium Constant      

Lab 5.   This week's lab exercise consists of two separate experiments and lab handouts

Lab 5A.  Determination of the Ka of a Weak Acid and Kb of a Weak Base from pH

Lab 5B. pH and Buffers--how can pH be Changed?

Lab 6. Use of Titration Curves to Determine the Ka of Two Weak Acids      

Lab 7.   Thermodynamic Prediction of Precipitation Reactions  

Lab 8 Measurement of Voltaic Cell Potentials and the Electrolytic Reduction of Cu2+

© Kenneth R. Marr 2003