- Docente: Serena Silvi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: CHIM/03
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Serena Silvi (Modulo 1) Elisa Boanini (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Chemistry and Materials Chemistry (cod. 8006)
Learning outcomes
The students acquire the basic knowledge of laboratory tools and
techniques. In particular they learn how to: safely handle chemical
substances, use IUPAC nomenclature and IS units, perform
stoichiometric calculi and prepare solutions, collect and process
experimental data, correlate experimental data with theory.
Course contents
Safety in chemistry laboratories. Experimental error. Expressions of concentration. Basic laboratory equipment and techniques. Synthesis of inorganic compounds. Equilibrium. Acid-base and redox titrations. Basic elements of stoichiometry.
Readings/Bibliography
Lecture notes and handbook will be handed by the teacher and will
be available on line.
The topics of this course can be found in any university textbook of General Chemistry. See, for example:
P. Atkins, L. Jones "Principi di Chimica", 2nd edition, Zanichelli editore, 2005.
Teaching methods
The lectures will cover the general problematics related to
laboratory activity: safety, language, design, data processing.The
course also includes:- demonstrations of stoichiometry problems;
preliminary introduction and demonstration of laboratory exercises;
practical laboratory exercises aimed at developing basic skills
required to carry out laboratory activities.
Assessment methods
Oral examination.
Teaching tools
Blackboard; personal computer, video projector.
Office hours
See the website of Serena Silvi
See the website of Elisa Boanini