Catalog Description: This course is designed to illustrate and explain the principles covered in CHEM 113.

Corequisite: CHEM 113.

Offered in the Fall and Spring semesters. One semester; one credit.

Prerequisites by Topic: Elements and their symbols, names and formulas of compounds, valences, balancing equations, stoichiometry; algebra, use of graphing calculator.

Goals: Same as for CHEM 113; development of laboratory techniques, including the use of the top-loading balance, pycnometer, burner and crucible, calorimeter, tenth-degree thermometer, and manometer. It is also hoped that students will relate the abstract principles covered in the lecture to the physical realities encountered in the laboratory.

Textbook: PRINCIPLES OF CHEMISTRY IN THE LABORATORY (1998 Edition) by William J. Busler; Christian Brothers University.

Measuring Densities of Liquids and Solids

Hydrates: Properties and Percentage of Water

Calorimetry: D H for a Reaction; Heat Capacity of a Metal

Determination of the Molar Mass of a Volatile Liquid

Spectroscopy: Determination of the Wavelength of Spectral Lines

Vapor Pressure and Enthalpy of Vaporization

Determination of Molar Mass by Freezing-Point Depression

Breakage Deposit: A breakage deposit of $25.00 must be paid at the beginning of the semester. This deposit, minus deductions for breakage, will be refunded after the last chemistry lab course at CBU.

Keys: All students are issued keys to their laboratory desks. There will be a charge of $1.00 for opening a desk; a charge of $5.00 will be assessed for losing a key.

Checkout: Students must check out of the laboratory on the appointed day at the end of the semester. Any student who fails to do so will be charged $1.00 per day until the breakage deposit has been used up.

Laboratory Safety and Conduct: It is the firm policy of the CBU Chemistry Department that safety glasses be worn at all times in the laboratory. Contact lenses may not be worn in the lab.

Attendance and punctuality are required.

Graded assignments include seven advance study assignments, seven lab reports, and a comprehensive final examination.