Designed to help readers overcome their fears and appreciate the exciting real-world connections and applications of chemistry, this hands-on workbook emphasizes the process of science while helping students visualize chemistry.

Designed to help students appreciate the exciting real-world applications of chemistry, this hands-on workbook emphasizes the process of science while helping students visualize and understand chemistry. The experiments develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills and enable students to apply principles presented when solving problems.

1. Introduction.
Laboratory Safety. Laboratory Equipment. Folding Filter Paper, Use of Funnel and Wash Bottle. Handling Reagents
Pouring Liquids. Format for Written Laboratory Reports.
2. Chemistry, Measurements, and Characteristic Properties.
Experiment 1: Physical and Chemical Changes. Experiment 2: Measurements. Experiment 3: Density. Experiment 4: Quantitative Separation of a Mixture. Experiment 5: Melting Point, a Characteristic Property. Experiment 6: Paper Chromatography.
3. Atoms and Molecules.
Experiment 7: Molar Masses of Some Gases. Experiment 8: Atoms and Spectra. Experiment 9: Conductivity and Solubility Properties. Experiment 10: Molecular Models and Shapes of Molecules.
4. Chemical Reactions and Quantitative Chemistry.
Experiment 11: The Formula of a Hydrate. Experiment 12: Ionic Reactions. Experiment 13: Types of Chemical Reactions. Experiment 14: The Preparation of Alum from Scrap Aluminum. Experiment 15: Gravimetric Analysis of a Soluble Sulfate.
5. Gases.
Experiment 16: The Pressure-Volume Relationship for Gases. Experiment 17: Determination of the Molar Volume of a Gas. Experiment 18: Diffusion, the Race between Gases.
6. Energy Changes.
Experiment 19: Heat of Neutralization. Experiment 20: Heat of Solution.
7. Acid and Bases.
Experiment 21: Percentage of Acetic Acid in Vinegar. Experiment 22: Acids, Bases, and pH.
8. Organic Chemistry.
Experiment 23: Molecular Models: Getting the Angle on Carbon. Experiment 24: Aspirin and Oil of Wintergreen.