Course Title

Practical General Chemistry for health studies

Course Number

10231115

Instructor Name

رشا بوريني

Contact Information

[email protected]

Semester(s) and academic year(s)

First Semester 2025
First Semester 2023
First Semester 2022
Second Semester 2021
First Semester 2021

Compulsory / Elective

Compulsory

Designed to introduce the health students to various experimental
practices used in general chemistry, i.e., using balance, making
simple chemistry methods such as filtration, titration and
gravimetric analysis, making simple metathesis reactions, Aspirin
synthesis and analysis, and performing some calorimetry
experiments and calculations.

The course aims to equip undergraduate health students with the
fundamental principles of practical general chemistry. The course
also aims to introduce laboratory work, the use of chemical
glassware and simple devices, and writing reports for the
experiments and calculations.

1. Follow proper safety rules and practice proper way of
handling chemicals and laboratory equipment.
2. Cooperate with colleagues to perform the experiments.
3. Practice some basic laboratory operations involving the
use of the Bunsen burner, measuring the mass and
volume, and density calculations of solid and liquid
substances.
4. Apply gravimetric analysis experiments involving percent
water in a hydrate salt and empirical formula.
5. Investigate the limiting reactant and perform gravity
filtration.
6. Conclude the identity of unknown substance depending
on observing the evidence of chemical reactions.
7. Perform acid base titration.
8. Perform simple synthesis and analysis of aspirin.
9. Obtain the molar mass of unknown solid by applying
freezing point depression.

Laboratory Manual for Principles of General Chemistry,
Beran, 9th edition