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    Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments: All Lab, No Lecture
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    Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments: All Lab, No Lecture

    By Robert Bruce Thompson

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    For students, DIY hobbyists, and science buffs, who can no longer get real chemistry sets, this one-of-a-kind guide explains how to set up and use a home chemistry lab, with step-by-step instructions for conducting experiments in basic chemistry -- not just to make pretty colors and stinky smells, but to learn how to do real lab work:

    • Purify alcohol by distillation
    • Produce hydrogen and oxygen gas by electrolysis
    • Smelt metallic copper from copper ore you make yourself
    • Analyze the makeup of seawater, bone, and other common substances
    • Synthesize oil of wintergreen from aspirin and rayon fiber from paper
    • Perform forensics tests for fingerprints, blood, drugs, and poisons
    • and much more

    From the 1930s through the 1970s, chemistry sets were among the most popular Christmas gifts, selling in the millions. But two decades ago, real chemistry sets began to disappear as manufacturers and retailers became concerned about liability. ,em>The Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments steps up to the plate with lessons on how to equip your home chemistry lab, master laboratory skills, and work safely in your lab. The bulk of this book consists of 17 hands-on chapters that include multiple laboratory sessions on the following topics:

    • Separating Mixtures
    • Solubility and Solutions
    • Colligative Properties of Solutions
    • Introduction to Chemical Reactions & Stoichiometry
    • Reduction-Oxidation (Redox) Reactions
    • Acid-Base Chemistry
    • Chemical Kinetics
    • Chemical Equilibrium and Le Chatelier's Principle
    • Gas Chemistry
    • Thermochemistry and Calorimetry
    • Electrochemistry
    • Photochemistry
    • Colloids and Suspensions
    • Qualitative Analysis
    • Quantitative Analysis
    • Synthesis of Useful Compounds
    • Forensic Chemistry
    With plenty of full-color illustrations and photos, Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments offers introductory level sessions suitable for a middle school or first-year high school chemistry laboratory course, and more advanced sessions suitable for students who intend to take the College Board Advanced Placement (AP) Chemistry exam. A student who completes all of the laboratories in this book will have done the equivalent of two full years of high school chemistry lab work or a first-year college general chemistry laboratory course.

    This hands-on introduction to real chemistry -- using real equipment, real chemicals, and real quantitative experiments -- is ideal for the many thousands of young people and adults who want to experience the magic of chemistry.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherO'Reilly Media, Inc.
    Release dateApr 29, 2008
    ISBN9780596154721
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    Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments: All Lab, No Lecture
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    Robert Bruce Thompson

    Robert Bruce Thompson is the coauthor of Astronomy Hacks, Building the Perfect PC, and PC Hardware in a Nutshell. Robert built his first computer in 1976 from discrete chips. It had 256 bytes of memory, used toggle switches and LEDs for I/O, ran at less than 1MHz, and had no operating system. Since then, he has bought, built, upgraded, and repaired hundreds of PCs for himself, employers, customers, friends, and clients. Robert reads mysteries and nonfiction for relaxation, but only on cloudy nights. He spends most clear, moonless nights outdoors with his 10-inch Dobsonian reflector telescope, hunting down faint fuzzies, and is currently designing a larger truss-tube Dobsonian (computerized, of course) that he plans to build.

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    • 4/5
      A fairly well done book, reminds me of C. L. Stong's Amateur Scientist articles in Scientific American. If only I had some time, this would be on my list of key books as part of building a decent home science lab.
    • 3/5
      The book contains procedures for many different kinds of chemistry experiments. I was impressed by the range of them. They cover most of the content of a first-year college chemistry course from stoichiometry, acids and bases, different types of reactions, gas laws, kinetics, and some interesting syntheses and forensic science work. I think this might be a good resource for homeschools or others trying to learn science on their own, if those people remember that this is only a small taste of the field of chemistry. Also, a regular textbook is required along with this book, as Thompson doesn't explain how to do the calculations you need for the experiments or many of the underlying concepts. This book should be used as a secondary text for practical (lab) work only.