Course detail

Laboratory Classes in Laboratory Technics I

FCH-BCT_ACH1_PAcad. year: 2014/2015

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, preparation of the solutions with accurate concentrations, distillation of salt acid, gas preparation.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

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

The course uses teaching methods in form of Laboratory exercise - 4 teaching hours per week. The e-learning system (LMS Moodle) is available to teachers and students.

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

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The target of the course is an acquisition of 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_CHMN , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

  • Programme BPCP_CHTP Bachelor's

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

  • Programme BKCP_CHTP Bachelor's

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

  • Programme BPCP_CHCHT Bachelor's

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

  • Programme BKCP_CHCHT Bachelor's

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

  • Programme BPCP_CHTP Bachelor's

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

  • Programme BKCP_CHTP Bachelor's

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

  • Programme BPCP_CHCHT Bachelor's

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

  • Programme BKCP_CHCHT Bachelor's

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

  • Programme BPCP_CHCHT Bachelor's

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

  • Programme BKCP_CHCHT Bachelor's

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

  • Programme CKCP_CZV lifelong learning

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