Standard techniques

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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

Testing and smelling gases
Thermometers
Using a Bunsen burner

You can also access information and videos on a number of important standard techniques from the RSC resource ‘Practical Chemistry for Schools and Colleges’