Practical Skills in Chemistry, 3rd edition

Published by Pearson Education (June 27, 2017) © 2017

  • John Dean Programme Director for Forensic Science at Northumbria University
  • Alan M Langford Northumbria University
  • David A Holmes Emeritus at St George's International School of Medicine
  • Rob Reed Emeritus at Central Queensland University
  • Jonathan Weyers University of Dundee
  • Allan Jones University of Dundee
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Practical Skills in Chemistry 3rd edition is a highly unique textbook that combines a wealth of practical knowledge and skills with the more technical aspects of chemistry.  It provides a general guidance for use in and out of practical sessions, covering a range of techniques from the basic to the more advanced.  It also provides a solid grounding in wider transferable skills such as teamwork, using information technology, communicating information and study skills.

  • Study and examination skills
  • 1. The importance of transferable skills
  • 2. Managing your time
  • 3. Working with others
  • 4. Taking notes from lectures and texts
  • 5. Learning and revising
  • 6. Curriculum options, assessments and exams
  • 7. Preparing your curriculum vitae
  • Information technology and library resources
  • 8.  Finding and citing published information
  • 9.  Evaluating information
  • 10. Using online resources
  • 11. Internet resources for chemistry
  • 12. Using spreadsheets
  • 13. Word processors, databases and other packages
  • Communicating information
  • 14. Organising a poster display
  • 15. Giving a spoken presentation
  • 16. General aspects of scientific writing
  • 17. Writing essays
  • 18. Reporting practical and project work
  • 19. Writing literature surveys and reviews
  • Fundamental laboratory techniques
  • 20. Your approach to practical work
  • 21. Health and safety
  • 22. Working with liquids
  • 23. Basic laboratory procedures I
  • 24. Basic laboratory procedures II
  • 25. Principles of solution chemistry
  • 26. pH and buffer solutions
  • The investigative approach
  • 27. Making and recording measurements
  • 28. SI units and their use
  • 29. Scientific method and design of experiments
  • 30. Project work
  • Laboratory techniques
  • 31. Melting points
  • 32. Recrystallisation
  • 33. Solvent extraction
  • 34. Distillation
  • 35. Reflux
  • 36. Evaporation
  • 37. Inert atmosphere methods
  • 38. Combinatorial chemistry
  • Classical techniques
  • 39. Qualitative techniques for inorganic analysis
  • 40. Gravimetry
  • 41. Procedures in volumetric analysis
  • 42. Acid–base titrations
  • 43. Complexometric titrations
  • 44. Redox titrations
  • 45. Precipitation titrations
  • Instrumental techniques
  • 46. Fundamental principles of quantitative chemical analysis
  • 47. Calibration and quantitative analysis
  • 48. Basic spectroscopy
  • 49. Atomic spectroscopy
  • 50. X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy
  • 51. Chromatography – basic principles
  • 52. Gas and liquid chromatography
  • 53. Electrophoresis
  • 54. Electroanalytical techniques
  • 55. Radioactive isotopes and their uses
  • 56. Infrared spectroscopy
  • 57. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
  • 58. Mass spectrometry
  • 59. Thermal analysis
  • Analysis and presentation of data
  • 60. Using graphs
  • 61. Presenting data in tables
  • 62. Hints for solving numerical problems
  • 63. Descriptive statistics
  • 64. Choosing and using statistical tests
  • 65. Drawing chemical structures
  • 66. Chemometrics
  • 67. Computational chemistry
  • Answers to study exercises
  • Index

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