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Serial Dilution and Beer’s Law
Students perform serial dilutions of a colored solution, measuring absorbance at its peak wavelength to determine concentration and calculate experimental molar absorptivity.
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Solutions and Colligative Properties (In Person)
Students prepare sodium chloride and calcium chloride solutions to experimentally determine freezing and boiling point constants, using molality calculations and Van\'t Hoff factor analysis.
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Waters of Hydration Copper Sulfate
Students heat copper(II)sulfate pentahydrate to remove the waters of hydration, then determine the number of water molecules lost by measuring mass differences upon cooling.
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Blue Food Dye Kinetics and Surface Area (in person)
Students investigate reaction kinetics by monitoring the absorbance of Adam\'s blue food dye over time in the presence of bleach, determining the reaction order and rate constant through concentration variations and graphical analysis.
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Standardization of Sodium Hydroxide
Students prepare a sodium hydroxide solution of defined molarity, then perform repeated titrations with KHP and phenolphthalein to quantify the actual concentration.
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Strong Acid Strong Base
Students conduct strong acid-strong base titrations using an indicator and pH probe, applying endpoint determination, titration curve analysis, precise burette handling to quantify concentrations, dilution techniques and theoretical analysis.
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Weak Acid Strong Base
Students conduct weak mono and diprotic acid-strong base titrations using an indicator and pH probe, applying endpoint determination, titration curve analysis, precise burette handling to quantify concentrations, dilution techniques and theoretical analysis.
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Buffer
Students compare the pH stability of a buffer solution and an HCl solution of identical pH upon incremental addition of HCl and NaOH, demonstrating buffer capacity and acid-base behavior.
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Electrochemistry (In Person)
A combination of Electrolysis with Sodium Sulfate, Potato Battery and Voltaic Pile experiments.
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Synthesis of Hexaamminenickel (II) Chloride
Students synthesize hexaammine nickel (II) chloride using concentrated ammonia for ligand addition, conducting the reaction in a fume hood and isolating the product via Buchner filtration.
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