Lab Skills
Free Resources
Practice, Practice, Practice!
LabSkills simulations accelerate learning with focused, memorable activities that can be practised over and over again. Within minutes you'll quickly be learning essential skills designed to improve your grades in coursework, assessments and exams.
Setting up equipment
- Optimise the set-up of a burette
- Test safety considerations
- Use as a pre-lab exercise for students to gain confidence in setting up equipment
Taking accurate readings
- Practise taking burette readings to nearest
0.05 cm³ - Students can practise many times
Finding an endpoint
- How to run a titration - use as practice before doing it in the lab
- Use of a rough titration
- Identifying an end point
- Using dropwise additions when close to end point
- Use of a titration table to record results
Doing titration calculations
- Run through a calculation step by step
- Understand where the different values come from
- Taking data from a titration table
- Understanding concomitant results
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The full resource contains more than 200 practice activities including...
Commonly examined experiments:
Reflux
Recrystallisation
Filtration
Titration
Distillation
Key maths calculations:
Moles
Concentration
Yield
Reaction rates
Equilibrium constants
Errors
Important chemical tests:
Organic functional groups
Inorganic ions
Transition metals
Flame tests
Modern analysis methods:
Infra red (IR) spectroscopy
Mass spectrometry (MS)
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy
