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GENERAL INFORMATION

Safety and Emergency Procedures 3

Phone Numbers 3

Labeling of Chemicals 5

Evacuation Procedures 6

Laboratory Regulations & Procedures 8

General Laboratory Instructions 10

1. Attendance 10

2. Planning Laboratory Work 10

3. Notebook 10

4. Reports 11

5. Honor Code 11

6. Calculators 11

Accuracy and Precision of Experimental Data 14

Scientific Notation and Significant Figures 19

Preparation of Graphs 20

Guide for Writing Chemistry Laboratory Reports 21

EXPERIMENTS

Experiment 0 Check-In 0-1

Experiment 1 Acid-Base Titrations I-1

Experiment 2-3 Qualitative Analysis of Metal Ions in Solution II & III-1

Experiment 4 i. Determination of the Equivalent Weight

and pK_a of an Organic Acid IV-1

ii. Qualitative Identification of the Organic Acid Using

Infrared Spectrometry IV-4

Experiment 5 Light, Electrons, Particles, and Waves V-1

Experiment 6 Preparation of an Inorganic Cobalt Complex Co(NH₃)_nCl₃ VI-1

Experiment 7 i. Gravimetric Determination of Percent Chlorine in the

Cobalt Compound VII-1

ii. Conductiometric Analysis of the Cobalt Complex VII-5

Experiment 8 Chelatometric Analysis of the Complex for Cobalt

Using EDTA VIII-1

Experiment 9 Spectrophotometric Determination of MW of Cobalt Complex IX-1

Experiment 10 Check-Out X-1

Experiment 11 Molecular Modeling* XI-1

Standard Chemical Glassware and Apparatus at end

Periodic Table of the Elements at end

Laboratory Apparatus Checklist at end

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* Tentative computational experiment.