1. Introduction                                                                                         1

2. The Structure of the Laboratory Report                                                3    

3. Laboratory Safety                                                                                 7

4. Sample MSDS                                                                                     13

5. Practice: Tutorials on How to Use Excel                                                 17

Practice I: Basic Excel Operations                                                             25

Practice II: Graphs ("Charts") in Excel                                                         29

Practice III: Regression Methods in Excel                                                     31

6. Chemical Changes of Copper: A Complete Cycle                                    33

7. Density I: Identification of Metals and Plastics                                         41

8. Density II: Precision and Accuracy in Measurements                                 51

9. Radioactivity                                                                                             59

10. Sythesis of Potassium Tris(oxalato)ferrate(III)                                         71

11. Qualitative Analysis of Group I                                                             79

12. Formula of a Hydrate                                                                           87

13. Conductivity and Solution Stoichiometry                                             95

14. Equivalent Weight of a Metal by Gas Evolution Analysis                      107

15. Thermochemistry                                                                                 113

16. Spectrophotometric Analysis of Commercial Aspirin                             127

17. Emission Spectroscopy                                                                         137

18. The Shape of Molecules: Lewis Structures and Modeling                     145

Ball-and-Stick Models                                                                             149

Computer Models I                                                                                 151

19. Halflife of Ba-137m                                                                             159

20. Phosphorescence Decay Kinetics   Part I                                             169

                                                            Part II                                             175

21. Kinetics of Dye Bleaching, I                                                                 181

22. Kinetics of Dye Bleaching, II                                                                 191

23. Determination of the Formation Constant for FeSCN²⁺                         199

24. Determination of the Dissociation Constant for a Weak Acid                 207

25. Effectiveness of Commercial Antacids                                                     217

26. Buffers                                                                                                 227

27. Determination of a Solubility Product Constant                                         237

28. Examples of Chemical Equilibrium                                                             245

29. Identification of Fe³⁺, Al³⁺, Zn²⁺, Ba²⁺, and Ca²⁺ Ions                             261

30. Voltaic Cells                                                                                             269

31. Efficiency of Electrochemical Etching                                                         281

Thermistor Calibration                                                                                     289

Answers to Selected Prelaboratory Questions                                                 292