Laboratory Experiments on Chemistry (FSI-TCH)

Academic year 2023/2024
Supervisor: Ing. Radoslav Novotný, Ph.D.  
Supervising institute: ÚFI all courses guaranted by this institute
Teaching language: Czech
Aims of the course unit:
The goal is to provide students with an overview of basic safety rules work in the chemical laboratory, to acquaint students with basic tasks, teach students to work independently in a chemical laboratory with hazardous substances.
Learning outcomes and competences:
Obtaining skills and a practical knowledge of basic operations that are used in the chemical laboratory.
Prerequisites:
Knowledge of secondary school chemistry and basic mathematics.
Course contents:
Laboratory code and safety measures, legislation. Laboratory notes, laboratory equipment. Basic laboratory work - weighing, work with glass, measuring volumes of liquids, preparation and dilution of the solutions. Heating, annealing, cooling, dehydrating, crystallization, filtration, decantation, extraction. Determination of variables - refracting index, melting point, density, pH. Simple tasks - mixture division, reduction of noble metal from the solution, pyrophoric lead.
Teaching methods and criteria:
The course is taught through practical laboratory work.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes:
The laboratory notebook (control of preparation), report sheets, course-unit credit test.
Controlled participation in lessons:
The presence of students at practice is obligatory and is monitored by a tutor. The way how to compensate missed practice lessons will be decided by a tutor depending on the range and content of the missed lessons.
Type of course unit:
    Laboratory exercise  13 × 2 hrs. compulsory                  
Course curriculum:
    Laboratory exercise Laboratory code and safety measures, legislation. (0 - 2 lessons)
Laboratory notes, laboratory equipment. (3 - 4)
Basic laboratory work - weighing, work with glass, measuring volumes of liquids, preparation and dilution of the solutions. (5 - 8)
Filtration - standard atmospheric pressure, hot filtration, lowered pressure. (9 - 12)
Crystallization, heating, cooling, dehydrating, annealing. (13 - 16)
Decantation, extraction. (17 - 18)
Determination of variables - refracting index, melting point, density, pH. (19 - 20)
Simple tasks - mixture division, substratum cleaning (organic impurities removing,
wet oxid removing). (21 - 26)
Literature - fundamental:
1. Kábelová, B. a kol.: Laboratorní technika II, 1999 -
The study programmes with the given course:
Programme Study form Branch Spec. Final classification   Course-unit credits     Obligation     Level     Year     Semester  
B-FIN-P full-time study --- no specialisation -- GCr 4 Compulsory-optional 1 1 S