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Book SynopsisGreen chemistry involves designing novel ways to create and synthesize products and implement processes that will eliminate or greatly reduce negative environmental impacts. The Green Chemistry Laboratory Manual for General Chemistry provides educational laboratory materials that challenge students with the customary topics found in a general chemistry laboratory manual, while encouraging them to investigate the practice of green chemistry.
Following a consistent format, each lab experiment begins with objectives and prelab questions highlighting important issues that must be understood prior to getting started. This is followed by detailed step-by-step procedures for performing the experiments. Students report specific results in sections designated for data, observations, and calculations. Once each experiment is completed, analysis questions test students' comprehension of the results. Additional questions encourage inquiry-based investigations and further research
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"…a welcome change and direction for enriching the laboratory experience of students."
— Colin F. Poole, Wayne State University, in Chromatographia.
"This book is designed as a laboratory manual ready to be used by students. It’s suitable for late secondary or elementary tertiary-level courses. … experiments highlight a feature also found in other chapters – the links made between chemistry and everyday life. This problem-based approach has to be lauded. Overall, this book provides an introduction to green chemistry and engages students in the process of challenging traditional methods by benchmarking them against the 12 principles of green chemistry."
— Thomas Logothetis, for Education in Chemistry, August 2016.
"…a welcome change and direction for enriching the laboratory experience of students."
— Colin F. Poole, Wayne State University, in Chromatographia.
"This book is designed as a laboratory manual ready to be used by students. It’s suitable for late secondary or elementary tertiary-level courses. … experiments highlight a feature also found in other chapters – the links made between chemistry and everyday life. This problem-based approach has to be lauded. Overall, this book provides an introduction to green chemistry and engages students in the process of challenging traditional methods by benchmarking them against the 12 principles of green chemistry."
— Thomas Logothetis, for Education in Chemistry, August 2016.
Table of ContentsDetermining the percent of water in epsom salt. Determination of the formula of a copper supplement. Determination of mass and mole relationships in a chemical reaction. Finding ethanol's molar mass using vapor density. Determining molar volume of a gas at standard temperature and pressure. Determining the enthalpy change for solvation reactions. Spectroscopic determination of food dye in popsicles. Separation of food dyes by paper chromatography. What is the best solution to lower a freezing point? Standardization of a sodium hydroxide solution. Determining the amount of acid in ketchup and hot sauce. Using an appropriate indicator for acid-base titrations. Preparation and properties of buffer solutions. Determination of the rate of reaction and its order. Equilibrium constant for ferric ion-salicylic acid complex determination. Determination of amount of ascorbic acid in a vitamin C tablet by redox titration. Qualitative analysis of metal cations and using ion-selective electrodes. How to determine the order of an electrochemical series. Voltaic cells and how batteries are made. Synthesis and chemical analysis of sodium iron (III) EDTA. Analysis of biodiesel synthesized from canola oil.
