Experiment 1
Fundamental Laboratory Techniques


OBSERVATIONS

Observations should be recorded for each experiment in ink. Observations are what you saw during the experiment, what was seen initially, all the changes that were seen, and the final conditions that were seen. This includes the observable properties of the reactants, all changes that occur during the reactions, and the observable properties of the products of your reactions. Examples include:

  • the color, appearance, and physical state of reactants
  • the color and appearance of products, temperature changes
  • gas production (bubbles)
  • precipitate formation (solid appears)
  • solids dissolving (solid disappears)
  • color changes of solutions
  • solutions becoming cloudy or becoming clear.

Note the important difference between solutions that are clear and solutions that are colorless.

Record your observations during the experiment. DO NOT wait until the end of the experiment to write them down. You will probably have forgotten a lot of the details or may remember them incorrectly.

 

1. Lab Policies
2. Safety
3.
Objectives/Overview
4.
Procedures
5. Observations
6.
Equipment
7.

View Techniques:
A. Measure Temperature
B. Measure Volume with a
graduated cylinder
10-mL pipette
25-mL pipette
50-mL burette
C. Measure Mass

8. Waste Disposal/Clean-up
9.

Calculations/Setups

10. Conclusions
11. Sample Report Forms
12. Grading Scale
13. Review Prelab Questions
14.
Review Postlab Questions
 
   
 
 
 

 

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