Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry

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 colours 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; analyse the makeup of seawater, bone, and other common substances; synthesize oil of wintergreen from aspirin and rayon fibre 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. 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.

Robert Bruce Thompson is a coauthor of Building the Perfect PC, Astronomy Hacks, and the Illustrated Guide to Astronomical Wonders. Thompson 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. Thompson 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.

Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Laboratory Safety	p. 9
Equipping a Home Chemistry Lab	p. 13
Chemicals for the Home Chemistry Lab	p. 45
Mastering Laboratory Skills	p. 69
Laboratory: Separating Mixtures	p. 93
Laboratory: Solubility and Solutions	p. 121
Laboratory: Colligative Properties of Solutions	p. 147
Laboratory: Introduction to Chemical Reactions and Stoichiometry	p. 161
Laboratory: Reduction-Oxidation (Redox) Reactions	p. 181
Laboratory: Acid-Base Chemistry	p. 191
Laboratory: Chemical Kinetics	p. 211
Laboratory: Chemical Equilibrium and Le Chatelier's Principle	p. 229
Laboratory: Gas Chemistry	p. 245
Laboratory: Thermochemistry and Calorimetry	p. 269
Laboratory: Electrochemistry	p. 285
Laboratory: Photochemistry	p. 309
Laboratory: Colloids and Suspensions	p. 317
Laboratory: Qualitative Analysis	p. 331
Laboratory: Quantitative Analysis	p. 355
Laboratory: Synthesis of Useful Compounds	p. 373
Laboratory: Forensic Chemistry	p. 385
Index	p. 405
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