Chemistry 103/113 Laboratory

 

 

This Week

Answer Keys

Gen Chem Lab

Periodic Table

 

 

 

·       Week 2 of What Anions Are In Your Drinking Water?

·       Quiz 1:  Study Assignments A, B

 

Next Week

·       Expt: LEDs and Periodic Properties

Notes for Today

Ion Chromatography (IC):  Identifying Anions and Measuring Concentrations

·       Tasks for Today

o   Organize information from chromatograms

retention times

peak areas

 

o   Use Excel to make a standard curve for your group’s anion

peak area is proportional to anion concentration

use data from entire class (15+ points!)

find equation of the best fit line to use in spreadsheet calculations

 

o   Identify anions in each drinking water

use retention times known from anion standards

 

o   Find concentration of each anion in each drinking water

convert peak areas into concentration via spreadsheet calculations

use best fit lines from standard curves

 

 

Week 2 Report

o   Data section due today at end of lab

o   Email Excel workbook to yourself before leaving today.

o   Work independently on report calculations/questions

o   Post report to your Blackboard lab blog by 10 p.m., two days after your lab class

 

Some Significant Figure Errors in Calculations