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Practical Skills in Chemistry
CONTENTS
STUDY EXAMINATION SKILLS 1
1 The Importance of transferable skills 3
2 Managing your time 9
3 Working with others 13
4 Taking notes from lectures and texts 17
5 Learning and revising 22
6 Curriculum options, assessments and exams 31
7 Preparing your curriculu vitae 40
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND LIBRARY RESOURCES 45
8 Finding and citing published information 47
9 Evaluating information 54
10 Using online resources62
11 Internet resources for chemistry 73
12 Using spreadsheets 87
13 Word processors, database and other packages 94
COMMUNICATING INFORMATION 101
14 Organising a poster display 103
15 Giving a spoken presentation 108
16 General aspects of scientific writing 114
17 Writing essays 122
18 Reporting practical and project work 126
19 Writing literature surveys and reviews 134
FUNDAMENTAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES 137
20 Your approach to practical work 139
21 Health and safety 142
22 Working with liquids 146
23 Basic laboratory procedures I 154
24 Basic laboratory procedures II 166
25 Principles of solution chemistry 186
26 pH and buffer solutions 198
THE INVESTIGATICE APPROACH 205
27 Making and recording measurements 207
28 SI units and their use 214
29 Scientific method and design of experiments 220
30 Project work 226
LABORATORY TECHNIQUES 231
31 Melting points 233
32 Recrystallisation 238
33 Solvent extraction 249
34 Distillation 255
35 Reflux 265
36 Evaporation 271
37 Inert atmosphere methods 276
38 Combinatorial chemistry 283
CLASSICAL TEHNIQUES 287
39 Qualitative techniques for inorganic analysis 289
40 Gravimetry 294
41 Procedures in volumetric analysis 297
42 Acid-base titrations 306
43 Complexometric titrations 310
44 Redox titrations 315
45 Precipitation titrations 318
INSTRUMENTAL TECHNIQUES 321
46 Fundamental prnciples of quantitative chemical analysis 323
47 Calibration and quantitative analysis 327
48 Basic spectrosopy 333
49 Atomic spectroscopy 358
50 X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy 358
51 Chromatography-basic principles 363
52 Gas and liquid chromatography 370
53 Electrophoresis 402
54 Electroanalytical techniques 413
55 Radioactive isotopes and their uses 40
56 Infrared spectroscopy 430
57 Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy 441
58 Mass spectrometry 455
59 Thermal analysis 465
ANALYSIS AND PRESENTATION OF DATA 469
60 Using graphs 471
61 Presenting data in tables 484
62 Hints for solving numerical problems 488
63 Descriptive statistics 498
64 Choosing and using statistical tests 510
65 Drawing chemical structures 524
66 Chemometrics 530
67 Computational chemistry 537
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