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With the first lab reports there will be a lot of mistakes.  That’s okay.  Learn from your errors, correct them if necessary, and don’t make the same mistake again next time. I point out lots of boo-boos, with…

Please know that I know that you know that I know that you can’t really do this lab report because you don’t know nearly enough chemistry yet. Sometimes in movies they show you the last scene, then cut…

Watch this, it’s great, but for 2 things.  See if you catch the guy calling MANGANESE by the wrong name (twice), even though the photo shows Mn, he says something different. He talks about the fancy sub-orbitals that…

  Welcome to real chemistry, finally. This is where we will learn how to put atoms together to make new pure substances, with new properties. A pure substance has a formula, like… Fe (an atom of the element…

Mercury is the best element, which is a qualitative measurement (no units and no numbers) but it is also true. This video shows mercury at it’s best.  Notice the coin, a Canadian quarter, so this is probably made…

Question 7 in the C of Cu Lab, I tried to purposely to confuse you with what is called a RED HERRING.   A red herring is a distraction, a shiny object to catch your attention from what is…

Our first thermochemistry lab, where we tried to measure the specific heat capacity constant (C) for copper (Cu). For water, C = 4.18 J/g⋅K That means it takes 4.18 Joules (units of energy, to make each gram 1…

In the world there are some things that are incredibly important and work perfectly, and most people just don’t know about them. Indoor plumbing is one of them.  Really, water and other stuff flowing through the walls and…

Mixtures are physical blends of matter, that retain their own properties.  They are mixed up, but they are not something new. To separate mixtures, you need to take advantage of a difference in their physical properties.   You can…