Techniques useful in a range of experiments
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Here we shall provide instructions on how to carry out standard techniques used in a variety of different experiments.
We shall be generating these pages as we produce experiments which rely on standard techniques. As a start, here are ...
Common lab solutions
Filtering
Gas cylinders
Generating, collecting, and testing gases
Handling and moving hot apparatus
Handling liquid bromine and preparing bromine water
Handling, dispensing and transferring liquids (including flammable liquids)
Heating substances
Preparing and using cobalt chloride indicator papers
Preparing and using potassium dichromate(VI) indicator papers
Preparing solutions and other reagents