Preface

Yit-Tsong Chen (Professor and Chair)

To integrate into global community, National Taiwan University has striven to adopt international practice in teaching material. Since 2006, the Department of Chemistry has been continuously working on the English version of General Chemistry Laboratory Manual. These efforts included Mr. Hardy Yap to initiate the first English version and Dr. Ai-Jen Chen to review the very first laboratory teaching materials. With their continuing efforts and collective revisions by Prof. Huang-Tsung Chang, Prof. Soofin Cheng, Prof. Wann-Yin Lin, Prof. Ying-Chih Lin, Prof. Ru-Shi Liu, Prof. Yeun-Min Tsai, and Lecturer Jui-Lin She, the first edition of General Chemistry Laboratory Manual was published in 2009. More recently, we made further revisions and rearrangements, and have introduced a few more photos to pedagogically guide the experimental procedures. In the same time, we also extended the scope of this Manual by involving three new experiments of catalyst and catalytic effect, conducting polymer-polyaniline, and organic molecular modeling. Taking this opportunity, I want to thank Prof. Wann-Yin Lin for reviewing the drafts of these new experiments, Miss Jui-Lin She (the Chief Editor) for organizing and conducting the revision project, and Miss Hsin-Yun Chang, Miss Mei-Ling Wu, and Miss Su-Chung Chen (the Teaching Assistant group) for editing the Manual. Finally, I would also like to thank all other persons who spent efforts on this project and have made this new edition of General Chemistry Laboratory Manual available.

Preface

Yit-Tsong Chen (Professor and Chair)

To integrate into global community, National Taiwan University has striven to adopt international practice in teaching material. Since 2006, the Department of Chemistry has been continuously working on the English version of General Chemistry Laboratory Manual. These efforts included Mr. Hardy Yap to initiate the first English version and Dr. Ai-Jen Chen to review the very first laboratory teaching materials. With their continuing efforts and collec...

Experiment 1 Determination of the chemical formula of a compound
Experiment 2 Molar volume of nitrogen gas
Experiment 3 The heat of reactions
Experiment 4 Quantitative analysis of vitamin C
Experiments 5 and 6 Qualitative analysis of cations
Experiment 5 Qualitative analysis of cation group 1
Experiment 6 Qualitative analysis of cation group 2
Experiment 7 Preparation of alum
Experiment 8 Iodine clock - initial rate method
Experiment 9 Catalyst and catalytic effect
Experiment 10 Quantitative analysis of cobalt(ii) ions
Experiment 11 Conducting potymer-pciyaniline
Experiment 12 Buffer solutions
Experiment 13 Potentiometric titration of acid-base
Experiment 14 Preparation and characterization of cobalt complexes
Experiment 15 Synthesis of acid-base indicators
Experiment 16 The solubility product constant of silver acetate
Experiment 17 Synthesis of superconductor
Experiment 18 Synthesis of yttrium europium oxide red phosphor
Experiment 19 Synthesis of thermochromic materials
Experiment 20 Synthesis and characterization of gold nanoparticles
Experiment 21 Direct methanol fuel cell
Experiment 22 Iodine clock - the integrated rate law
Experiment 23 Organic molecular modeling
Experiment 24 Molecular models and crystalline structures
Experiment 25 Searching for the champion of saliva

Appendices
Appendix 1 Selected fundamental constants and conversion factors
Appendix 2 Standard reduction potentials
Appendix 3 Dissociation constants of some common acids
Appendix 4 Dissociation constants of some common bases
Appendix 5 Solubility product constants
Appendix 6 Complex formation constants
Appendix 7 Vapor pressure of water
Appendix 8 Periodic table of the elements

Experiment 1 Determination of the chemical formula of a compound
Experiment 2 Molar volume of nitrogen gas
Experiment 3 The heat of reactions
Experiment 4 Quantitative analysis of vitamin C
Experiments 5 and 6 Qualitative analysis of cations
Experiment 5 Qualitative analysis of cation group 1
Experiment 6 Qualitative analysis of cation group 2
Experiment 7 Preparation of alum
Experiment 8 Iodine clock - initial rate method
Experiment 9 Catalyst and catalytic effect
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