Description
This self-teaching lab manual presents a process for learning descriptive chemistry and the chemistry of the more common elements and their compounds in the format of a scheme of analysis. Students and challenged to call upon their manipulative and observational skills to provide the basis for identifying a substance or a mixture of substances. Part I describes the strategy of qualitative analysis so that students have a review of the principles readily available when they are engaged in the details of laboratory work; Part II presents the concepts involved in qualitative analysis, systematically dealing with the nature of the chemical compounds; Part III features well-tested analytical laboratory procedures.
Features
An attempt has been made to rearrange (and revise) the chapters on laboratory practices and the practical aspects of qualitative analysis.
The chapters that appear in Part II - the theory of qualitative analysis - have all been revised.
Early introduction to the principles of “green chemistry” (using fewer chemicals and smaller volumes of solution using a benign solvent) - Gives students experience in semimicro methods of qualitative analysis.
“Less than macro” trends in laboratory instruction reflected in experimental procedures - Emphasizes small quantities of chemicals, simpler equipment, and fewer hazards.
REVISED! End-of-chapter questions - Anticipate some of the more practical problems (in Part II) and illustrate the principles developed.
A list of the required equipment in Appendix III:
* Introduces students to each piece of equipment and special technique at the time it is first used in the plan of analysis.
* The equipment is of the standard Semimicro type available at most supply houses.
* Only a few items need to be prepared, but these can be made by the student.
A list of all reagents used with directions for preparing all solutions in Appendix III.
Fume tests have been incorporated where appropriate as a verification method.
More emphasis has been placed on the usefulness of the role of identifying anions in the qualitative analysis of cations.
Net equations used to describe reactions which occur in solution in conformity with the principle that equations should indicate the predominate species in the system. No effort has been made to present the detailed mechanisms of the more complex reactions.
A general survey in each chapter of the chemistry of the species in a qualitative analysis group of ions followed by the experimental details for the ions in that group.
Table of Contents Part I GENERAL STRATEGY
1 The Strategy of Qualitative Analysis
Part II CONCEPTS IN QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
2 The Nature of Chemical Reactions
3 The Nature of Chemical Compounds
4 Solution Phenomena
5 Complex Compounds
6 Oxidation-Reduction Reactions
Part III THE PRACTICE OF QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
7 The Practical Aspects of Qualitative Analysis
8 Laboratory Practices
9 The Silver Group
10 The Copper-Arsenic Group
11 The Aluminum-Nickel Group
12 The Barium-Magnesium Group
13 The Analysis of Alloys
14 Analysis of Salts and Salt Mixtures
15 Recording and Reporting Analysis