Student resources

Chemistry

• Tour the chemistry lab
• How to use top loading balance
• How to use a Bunsen burner
  • Bunsen burner technique (pdf)
• Suction filtration
  • Suction filtration technique (pdf)
• Measuring volumes: Use of pipet and graduated cylinder
  • Volumetric equipment (pdf)
• Simple distillation

Chemical management

• Eye Protection: Practice safe science

• Chemical inventory
  • How to access/search the UNBSJ chemical inventory
  • Updating the online chemical database
• Preparation of solutions
  • Diluting strong corrosives
• Testing
  • Ethers: Testing for peroxides
  • Testing unlabeled wastes (beware the unknown)

• Waste management
  • Non-toxic solids
  • Solvents
• WHMIS
  • WHMIS labeling
  • Flammability
  • MSDS
    • Part 1: Toxic carbon tetrachloride
    • Part 2: Flammable Ethyl acetate
    • Part 3: Corrosive sulfuric acid

Problem solving

• Balancing equations, combustion

• Lewis diagrams 
  • Part I: Counting the electrons and creating the structure 
  • Part II: Formal charge and expansion of octets 
  • Part III: Geometries

• Naming Ionic Compounds

• Oxidation Reduction
  • Part I: Assigning oxidation numbers
  • Part II: Which reactant is reduced? Oxidized?
  • Part III: Balancing redox reactions

• pH
  • pH of salts: acidic, basic or neutral?
  • Buffer part I: the contaminant slayer!
  • Buffer part II: Calculating pH

• Significant figures

• Theoretical Yield 
  
  • Part I: Which is the limiting reagent?
  • Part II: How much excess reagent is left?

• Volumetric Analysis: Titration calculations

Other resources

• Material Safety Data Sheets
  
• Periodic Table of Elements