Single-Course
Dansk
5 ECTS
Applications of Analytical Chemistry in Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, laboratory course
Overall Course Objectives
The aim of the course is to provide the students with knowledge of elementary laboratory methods and instrumental and non-instrumental analytical methods and their applications in inorganic and physical chemistry.
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Learning Objectives
- Explain and perform good and safe experimental practice
- Quantify samples and chemical regents
- Plan and execute experiments timely in the laboratory and calculate results with the correct number of significant digits
- Perform volumetric titration using a classic glass burette
- Standardise a titrant with 0.3% precision
- Account for the Kjeldahl-method for the determination of nitrogen content
- Use automatic potentiometric titrations where the glass/reference electrode system is calibrated before use and determine instrument parameters
- Perform quantitative analysis using spectrophotometry
- Determine solubility of a heavy metal salt in water and a series of different aqueous salt solutions
- Measure electronic conductivity and perform conductivity titration
Course Content
Applications of analytical chemistry in inorganic and physical chemistry: laboratory experiments and theory. The quantitative analyses include and volumetric methods and instrumental methods. 8 exercises.
Possible start times
- 23 – 26
Recommended prerequisites
Teaching Method
Laboratory exercises and Q&A sessions concerned with the topics of the submitted group reports.


