Lab:Chemistry for Non-Specialists

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For a detailed table of these experiments, showing levels and topic types, see TeacherExpt:Chemistry for Non-Specialists.

1. Diffusion of gases – ammonia and hydrogen chloride: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
2. Handling liquid bromine and preparing bromine water: Lab overview, Teacher notes
3. Diffusion of gases – a safer alternative to bromine (not available online)
4. Diffusion in liquids: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
5. Allotropes of sulfur: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
6. Making glass: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
7. Chocolate and structure: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
8. Experiments with hydrogels - hair gel and disposable nappies: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
9. Experiments with hydrogels – plant water storage crystals: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
10. Cross-linking polymers – alginate worms: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
11. Extracting limonene from oranges by steam distillation: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
12. Generating, collecting, and testing gases: Lab overview, Teacher notes
13. An alternative to using compressed gas cylinders: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
14. Making a reaction tube: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
15. Ammonia fountain: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
16. Titrating sodium hydroxide with hydrochloric acid: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
17. Using indigestion tablets to neutralise an acid: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
18. A thermometric titration: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
19. Universal indicator ‘rainbow’: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
20. An effervescent universal indicator 'rainbow': Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
21. Neutralisation circles: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
22. Indicators and dry ice: demonstration: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
23. Thermal decomposition of calcium carbonate: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
24. Reacting elements with oxygen: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
25. Reacting elements with chlorine: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
26. Identifying the products of combustion: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
27. The ‘Whoosh’ bottle demonstration: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
28. Fat-pan fire!: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
29. Money to burn: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
30. The methane rocket: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
31. The thermal decomposition of nitrates – ‘writing with fire’: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
32. Iron and sulfur reaction: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
33. The reaction between zinc powder and sulfur: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
34. Reaction between aluminium and iodine: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
35. Reaction of zinc with iodine: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
36. The combustion of iron wool: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
37. The change in mass when magnesium burns: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
38. Competition for oxygen: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
39. Displacement reactions between metals and their salts: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
40. Extracting metals with charcoal: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
41. Extraction of iron on a match head!: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
42. The reaction between zinc and copper oxide: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
43. The thermite reaction: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
44. Making silicon and silanes from sand: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
45. Reduction of copper(II) oxide with methane: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
46. Finding the formula of copper oxide: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
47. The reaction of magnesium with steam: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
48. The 'blue bottle' experiment: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
49. Turning copper coins into 'silver' and 'gold': Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
50. Alkali metals: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
51. Heating Group 1 metals in air and in chlorine: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
52. Reactions of aqueous solutions of the halogens: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
53. Halogen reactions with iron: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
54. Colourful electrolysis: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
55. Electrolysis of zinc chloride: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
56. Identifying the products of electrolysis: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
57. Electrolysis of potassium iodide solution: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
58. Endothermic solid-solid reactions: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
59. Exothermic or endothermic?: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
60. Chemiluminescence – cold light: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
61. Spontaneous exothermic reaction: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
62. The effect of concentration on reaction rate: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
63. Iodine clock reaction: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
64. Rates and rhubarb: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
65. Catalysts for the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
66. Controlled explosion of a hydrogen-air mixture: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
67. Controlled explosion of a methane-air mixture: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
68. Exploding balloons: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
69. The howling/screaming jelly baby: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
70. Hydrogen/oxygen explosion: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
71. Exploding bubbles of hydrogen and oxygen: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
72. An oscillating reaction: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
73. The fractional distillation of crude oil: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
74. Cracking hydrocarbons: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
75. Making nylon - the 'nylon rope trick': Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration
76. PVA polymer slime: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
77. Reactions of positive ions with sodium hydroxide (microscale version): Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
78. Testing for negative ions: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
79. Flame tests (wooden splint method): Lab overview, Teacher notes, Student's procedure
80. Flame colours – a demonstration: Lab overview, Teacher notes, Demonstration

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