A practical handbook for teaching inorganic chemistry with hands-on flame, gas, and equipment work.
It covers common lab equipment, safe operation, and step-by-step procedures that help students learn by doing.
This edition focuses on practical preparation and demonstration techniques, framing essential laboratory skills for pyrochemical work, gas handling, and gas purification. It presents adaptable methods that instructors can integrate into practical teaching, from burner selection to gas purification and safe handling of reactive substances.
- Techniques for using burners and furnaces to reach and control high temperatures
- Cooling methods and cryogenic cooling for experiments requiring low temperatures
- Generation, handling, and purification of gas currents with standard lab apparatus
- Introducing gases into liquids and safely managing gas absorption and reactions
Ideal for readers involved in teaching or learning inorganic chemistry through practical laboratory work.