Experiments

This is a detailed list of all the Practicals and Investigations that you can find in the Chemistry in Context Laboratory Manual 5th edition. To view samples of the actual text, simply click on the samples button to the right hand side.

Section I: Practicals
- Finding the formula of Epson salts
- Analysing aspirin tablets
- Analysing iron tablets
- Titrations involving iodine and thiosulphate. Determining the percentage of copper in brass
- Studying redox reactions
- Structure, bonding and properties
- Enthalpy changes of neutralisation
- Determining the enthalpy change for the thermal decomposition of potassium hydrogencarbonate
- Enthalpy changes of solution
- Acids, bases and indicators
- Electrochemical cells
- Complex formation and competition for cations
- Determining the formulae of complex ions
- Determining the equilibrium constant for an esterification reaction
- Determining the order of a reaction
- Investigating catalysis
- Using colorimetry to find the order of the reaction between bromine and methanoic acid
- Determining the activation energy of the reaction between bromide and bromate(V) ions
- A practical study of the third period
- A practical study of some Group II elements
- The halogens
- The oxidation states of vanadium and manganese
- Copper and copper compounds
- Identifying cations
- Alkanes
- Alkenes
- Aromatic compounds
- 1-Bromobutane
- Nucleophilic substitution reactions of halogenoalkanes
- Alcohols
- Phenol
- Carbonyl compounds
- Carboxylic acids
- Amines
- Polymers

Section II: Investigations
- Shorter investigations
- How acidic is vinegar?
- Designing a thermochemical titration
- Designing a conductivity titration
- Investigating the effect of a charged rod on liquid jets
- Using enthalpy changes for cooling
- Concentration cells
- Studying the kinetics of reactions between metals and acids
- How fast does carbon dioxide escape from solution?
- Investigating the activity of an enzyme
- Investigating sunscreens
- The formula of the aspirin/copper(II) complex

Longer investigations
- Do iron tablets deteriorate?
- Looking at indicators from plants
- Electrolysis of salt solution
- The esterification equilibrium
- Investigating the formula of hydroxide precipitates
- Comparing different methods of analysing for copper
- The kinetics of the peroxodisulphate/iodine reaction
- The kinetics of the propanone/iodine reaction
- How fast are dyes?
- The hydrolysis of bromobutane

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