Laboratory Inquiry in Chemistry , Third Edition (Brooks Cole Laboratory Series for General Chemistry)

Front Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Your Group......Page 9
Your Laboratory Instructor......Page 10
Laboratory Notebooks......Page 11
Scientific Reports......Page 12
1. What Are the Safety Concerns in the Laboratory?......Page 14
2. What's in the Flask?......Page 29
3. How Should Data Trends Be Presented?......Page 33
4. How Is Lab Equipment Used?......Page 37
5. What Relationships Exist Among Elements?......Page 41
6. What's in the Bottles?......Page 49
7. How Can the Waste Be Made Useful?......Page 53
8. Is the Water Hard or Soft?......Page 57
9. How Hot Is the Water?......Page 61
10. Which Metal Will Burn the Skin?......Page 65
11. How Much Acetic Acid Is in Vinegar?......Page 69
12. Are All Neutralization Reactions the Same?......Page 73
13. How Many Waters of Hydration Are in the Formula?......Page 77
14. How Much Sodium Bicarbonate Is in the Mixture?......Page 81
15. Is It Economical to Recycle Aluminum?......Page 85
16. What Is a Copper Cycle?......Page 89
17. Who Wrote the Ransom Note?......Page 93
18. How Can UV Sensitive Beads Be Used to Test Sunscreens?......Page 97
19. What Factors Affect the Intensity of Color?......Page 101
20. How Much Cobalt Is in the Soil?......Page 105
21. How Much Copper Is in the Coin?......Page 109
22. Which Iron Compound Is It?......Page 113
23. Should We Mine This Ore?......Page 117
24. Why Do Liquids Evaporate at Different Rates?......Page 121
25. What Are the Structures of Some Alloys?......Page 125
26. How Is LED Light Color Related to Composition?......Page 129
27. What Is the Molar Mass of Mars Ice Gas?......Page 133
28. How Much Gas Is Produced?......Page 137
29. Which Alcohols Are in the Barrels?......Page 141
30. How Is Heat of Combustion Measured Indirectly?......Page 145
31. What Is the Rate Law?......Page 149
32. How Fast Does the Crystal Violet Decolorize?......Page 153
33. Why Is the Vinegar Factory Rusting?......Page 159
34. What Factors Affect the Solubility of Kidney Stones?......Page 163
35. How Many Chemicals Are in the Vial?......Page 167
36. What Factors Affect Chemical Equilibrium?......Page 171
37. What Is the Formation Constant?......Page 175
38. Are Household Items Acidic, Basic, or Neutral?......Page 181
39. What Is the pH of Soil?......Page 185
40. What Is the Acid Dissociation Constant?......Page 189
41. What Is the Solubility Product?......Page 193
42. What Are Some Chemical Properties of Cream of Tartar?......Page 197
43. What Are the Metals?......Page 201
44. How Can a Battery Be Made from Coins?......Page 205
45. What Is the Complex Ion?......Page 209
46. What Formulation Makes the Best Toy?......Page 213
47. How Are Anions Identified?......Page 217
48. How Are Cations Identified?......Page 223
49. How Are More Cations Identified?......Page 227
50. How Are Ionic Solids Identified?......Page 231
Presentations and Poster Sessions......Page 235
A. Automated Data Collection......Page 239
B. Transmittance and Absorbance Data Collection......Page 241
C. Measuring pH......Page 244
D. Temperature Data Collection......Page 247
E. Pressure Data Collection......Page 248
F. Voltage Data Collection......Page 251
G. Selected Laboratory Techniques......Page 252
H. Laboratory Equipment......Page 264
I. Sample Material Safety Data Sheet......Page 265
J. Tables......Page 271