Course detail

Laboratory Classes in Laboratory Technics I

FCH-BCT_ACH1_PAcad. year: 2011/2012

Laboratory code and safety measures, basic laboratory work - weighing, work with glass, measuring volumes of liquids, filtration, heating, annealing, cooling, dehydrating, distillation, crystallization, decantation, sublimation, extraction, determination of physical variables - refracting index, melting point, density, pH. Simple tasks - fraction crystallization, pure sodium chloride purification, preparation of the solutions with accurate concentrations, distillation of salt acid, gas preparation.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Obtaining skills and a practical knowledge of basic operations that are used in the chemical laboratory.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of secondary school chemistry and basic mathematics.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

The laboratory notebook (control of preparation), report sheets, tests, course-unit credit test.

Course curriculum

1. Introduction
2. Laboratory safety and guidelines, laboratory notes. Laboratory equipment.
3. Weighing, work with glass. Measuring volumes of liquids, volumetric glass. Preparation of solutions with accurate concentrations. Heating.
(Test - laboratory safety and guidelines.)
4. Filtration - gravity and vacuum filtration. Saturated solution, solubility curve, cooling.
(Test - laboratory equipment.)
5. Filtration (Büchner funnel), decanting, dehydrating. Evaporation, crystallization - types.
6. Extraction, sublimation. Determination of melting point. Annealing.
7. Distillation - coolers, determination of density and index of refraction.
8. Titration - byrettes, pH measuring.
9. Gas preparation in the laboratory.
10.-12. Fraction crystallization of mixture chromium(III) oxide,borax and sodium chloride.
Distillation of hydrochloric acid.
Solubility product of lead(II) iodide.
13. Course-unit credit test. Course-unit credit.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The target of the course is a fast and necessary unification of levels of practical and laboratory knowledge of the starting students - chemists.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Participation on each laboratory practice is necessary. In the case of illness confirmed with a doctor is substitution in other students group possible.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

B.Kábelová a kol.: Laboratorní technika II, Vutium, Brno 1999, ISBN 80-214-1450-2 (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BPCP_CHCHT Bachelor's

    branch BPCO_CHTOZP , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch BPCO_CHM , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch BPCO_SCH , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

  • Programme BKCP_CHCHT Bachelor's

    branch BKCO_CHTOZP , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch BKCO_CHM , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch BKCO_SCH , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

  • Programme BPCP_CHTP Bachelor's

    branch BPCO_BT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch BPCO_CHP , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

  • Programme BKCP_CHTP Bachelor's

    branch BKCO_BT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch BKCO_PCH , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

  • Programme BPCP_CHCHT Bachelor's

    branch BPCO_CHMN , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Guided consultation in combined form of studies

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer