Course detail

Laboratory Classes in Laboratory Technics I

FCH-BC_ACH1_PAcad. year: 2024/2025

Laboratory code and safety measures, basic laboratory work - weighing, 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, separation of a mixture by precipitation, gas preparation.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Entry knowledge

Successful graduation of Legislation in Chemistry I and Basics of Laboratory Technique.
Knowledge of secondary school chemistry and basic mathematics.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

The laboratory notebook (control of preparation), report sheets, tests, style of the work, course-unit credit test.
Evaluation of the test: excellent [100%-90%], very good [89%-80%], good [79%-70%], satisfactory [69%-60%], sufficient [59%-50%], failed [49%-0%]
The average from the evalution of the report sheets, of the tests, of the final test and style of the work is the final evalution of the course.
The attendance is compulsory. In the case of illness confirmed with a doctor is substitution in other students group possible.

Aims

The target of the course is an acquisition of laboratory knowledge of the starting students - chemists.
Obtaining skills and a practical knowledge of basic operations that are used in the chemical laboratory.

Study aids

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_CHTPO Bachelor's

    specialization CHPL , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    specialization PCH , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    specialization BT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

  • Programme BKCP_CHTPO Bachelor's

    specialization PCH , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    specialization BT , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    specialization CHPL , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

  • Programme BKCP_AAEFCH Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
  • Programme BKCP_CHCHTE Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
  • Programme BKCP_CHTM Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
  • Programme BKCP_CHTOZP Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
  • Programme BPCP_AAEFCH Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
  • Programme BPCP_CHCHTE Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
  • Programme BPCP_CHMA Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
  • Programme BPCP_CHTM Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
  • Programme BPCP_CHTOZP Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

  • Programme BPCP_CHTP Bachelor's

    specialization CHTP , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

  • Programme BKCP_CHTP Bachelor's

    specialization CHTP , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Laboratory exercise

52 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Introduction. Laboratory safety and guidelines, laboratory notes. Laboratory equipment.
2. Measuring volumes of liquids, volumetric glass. Filtration - gravity filtration. Weighing.
3. Temperature measurement. Heating. Cooling.
4. Filtration - vacuum filtration. Saturated solution, solubility curve. Evaporation,
crystallization - types. Drying.
5. Filtration (Büchner funnel), decanting, dehydrating. Determination of melting point. Annealing.
6. Gas preparation in the laboratory. Sublimation.
7. Extraction. Determination of index of refraction. Determination of density. Weighing.
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. Compensation for illness, for holiday.
13. Course-unit credit test.