07316 - Chemistry Laboratory

Academic Year 2009/2010

  • Docente: Sandro Torroni
  • Credits: 5
  • SSD: CHIM/03
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Chemistry and Materials Chemistry (cod. 8006)

Course contents

Safety in chemistry laboratories. IUPAC naming conventions. Experimental error: significant figures, types of error. Expressions of concentration. Basic laboratory equipment and techniques. Synthesis of inorganic compounds. Systematic treatment of equilibrium.  Acid-base and precipitation titrations. Basics of stechiometry.

Readings/Bibliography

Lecture notes and handbooks will be handed in by the person in charge of the course. On line resources: http://www.ciam.unibo.it/storroni/

Teaching methods

The lectures will cover the general problematics related to laboratory activity: safety, language, design, data processing.The course also includes:- demonstrations of stechiometry problem solving and calculus- preliminary introduction and demonstration of laboratory exercises- practical laboratory exercises aimed at developing basic skills required to carry out laboratory activities. In the solution of such exercises, each student individually will have to design a practical solution to a problem specified at a theoretical level during the course lectures.

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Teaching tools

Blackboard; personal computer, video projector; didactic equipments of laboratory.

Links to further information

http://www.ciam.unibo.it/storroni/

Office hours

See the website of Sandro Torroni