This is a self-published lab manual involving low hazard chemistry laboratories involving classical and instrumental methods of chemical analysis and testing.
Here’s a list of contents:
12 Principles of Green Chemistry
Responsible Use of Fume Hoods
Washing glassware
Chemical Safety
Categories of Chemical Reagents
Rules for Handling Reagents
Central College Vermeer Science Center Laboratory Rules
and Policies
The Laboratory Notebook
Use of the Balance
Experiment 1: Lab check in, balances and desiccators
Experiment 2a: Observations of a Candle Burning
Experiment 2b:Sampling
Experiment 3: Using a Spreadsheet, Buret, and Pipet
Experiment 4: Gravimetric Determination of Phosphorus in Plant
Food Using Household Chemicals
Experiment 5: Titration of KHP
Experiment 6: Titration of wine and vinegar
Experiment 7a: Acid-base titrations with plotting and application
Experiment 7b: Acid-base titration plots using known acids
Experiment 8: Natural Indicators
Experiment 9: Buffer Action
Experiment 10: Examination of Personal Products as Buffers
Experiment 11: Flame Emission Spectrometric Determination of Sodium
Experiment 12: Determination of Dyes in Kool-Aid Using Visible
Spectroscopy
Experiment 13: Two Colorful Plant Molecules–Determination of
Beta-carotene Using Visible Spectroscopy/ Identification of
Betatin by Fluorescence
Experiment 14: Determination of Henna in a Hair Product Using
Visible Spectroscopy
Experiment 15: Determination of Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) by
Fluorescence
Experiment 16: Determination of Nitrates NO3–: UV screening and
ion selective electrode
Experiment 17: Gas Chromatographic determination of alcohol
in orange extract
Experiment 18: Determination of L-dopa in Mucuna pruriens
(Velvet beans) by HPLC
Experiment 19: Determination of the slope of a pH electrode (New Lab)
Experiment 20: Determination of Quinine by Fluorescence (New Lab)
Experiment 21 :Determination of Iron in Wine and Beer or Pomegranate Juice by Atomic Absorption (New lab. Uses Standard Addition)
Experiment 22: Determination of p-coumaric acid in sage using
fluorescence and standard addition (Under Development)
Experiment 23: Identification of Polymers using Infrared Spectroscopy
Experiment 24 Determination of acetaminophen by cyclic voltammetry
Experiment 25: Determination of chloride ion by ion selective electrode
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Newly revised for 2021
E-books of other labs, tests and keys
Introduction to Analytical Chemistry
Titrations/Acid-base chemistry
Spectroscopy
Catherine Haustein 