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The lab notebook guidelines are included in this document.
1. Each lab period, in addition to coming to lab properly dressed, a pre-lab must be
prepared for the lab you are scheduled to perform that day. Failure to come to lab
without a complete pre-lab and improper dress will result in dismissal from the week’s
lab with a zero point allocation.
a. Each pre-lab should include the following sections: Name, Title, Date, Unknown,
Purpose, Balanced Equations, Table of Chemical and Physical Properties,
Procedure and an incomplete data table under Data Collected. This should be
uploaded on CANVAS before the start of lab and will be scanned for plagiarism.
This is due at the beginning of the lab period (mandatory).
2. Do not leave without checking out with your professor. You are allowed to use any
notebook or electronic notebook for this lab. Binded lab notebook is not needed for this
lab.
3. Lab reports (post-lab) are due 1 week following the completion of a lab. Each lab is
worth 100 points, comprising of pre and post lab. Your professor will provide further
instructions for completing your lab report.
a. Reports that are suspected to be plagiarized will be reported to the Dean, as
potential violators of the Academic Dishonesty guidelines (procedure 5026). This
will result in an F in the class. Self-plagiarism is also considered plagiarism.
4. The final lab report (post-lab) should comprise of 1) pre-lab sections, 2) Data collected,
3) Observations, 4) Discussion and 5) Conclusion and should be uploaded to CANVAS
placeholder.
Please upload at correct placeholder for each lab. Resubmissions are not allowed.
Please keep an eye on similarity score after submission.
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Laboratory Notebook Guidelines
A proper laboratory notebook is one from which a given laboratory experiment can be repeated
by another chemist. Another chemist, chemical engineer or chemical patent lawyer should be
able to read your notebook and understand what you did and the results you obtained.
1. Every experiment should include the following sections listed below.
Title
Name
Date
Unknown (if any)
Purpose Describe the goal of the experiment.
Balanced Equation(s) (if any)
Table of Chemical and Physical Properties (including reference information, if
necessary)
Procedure & Do not provide a detailed, step-by-step procedure. The procedure is in
numerical form and should give the reader a general description of the procedure and any
special experimental details.
Observations . Throughout the lab, be sure to include any relevant observations: What
mass or volume did YOU use? Was the product a solid, liquid, gel, red precipitate, green
solution, etc?
Data Collected A sample data table is provided in each lab write-up. Record the
quantities of materials you used in the experiment. This includes calculations using
formulas, percent yield, percent error, etc.
Discussion Discussion should correlate expected data with obtained data in scientific
terms, without personal opinion.
Conclusion Conclusion should scientifically critic the success of the experiment, without
personal opinion and without over emphasis on errors.
The following sections must be completed prior to lab in the form of PRE-lab and uploaded to
CANVAS in correct placeholder: Name, Title, Date, Unknown, Purpose, Balanced Equations,
Table of Chemical and Physical Properties, Procedure and an incomplete data table under Data
Collected.
** All post-labs are due at the beginning of the next lab period on CANVAS, unless otherwise
specified. Each lab write-up is worth 100 points, including pre and post lab.
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Lab reports must be written independently of lab partners,
students in other lab sections, and previous semesters’
students. Reports that are suspected to be plagiarized from any
of the previous sources will be submitted to the Dean, as
potential violators of the Academic Dishonesty guidelines
(procedure 5026). This will result in an F in the class.
THE FOLLOWING PAGE HAS A TEMPLATE ATTACHED FOR YOUR
CONVENIENCE:
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Pre-lab
Your Name:
Title:
Date:
Unknown: (if none, write N/A)
(skip one line)
Purpose: Describe the goal of the experiment. Your purpose should answer the following: What are you doing? Why are you doing it? How are you going do it?
This should be in your own words. (skip one line)
Balanced Equations: (if none, write N/A)
(skip one line)
Table of Chemical and Physical Properties: The chemicals and physical/chemical properties listed in the lab should be included in the table.
All the information can obtained from sigmaaldrich dot com.
Example:
Chemical
Name
Molecular
Weight
(g/mol)
Boiling
Point
(°C)
Density Safety
zinc 65.35 907 7.14
g/cm3
irritant,
combustible
copper
nickel
lead
polypropylene
water
Information obtained from:
http://www.sciencelab.com/msds.php?msdsId=9925476
http://pslc.ws/macrog/pp.htm
http://pslc.ws/macrog/pp.htm
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Procedure 1. Obtain 50 mL H2O. 2. Tare graduated cylinder
on a balance.
3. Add a rubber stopper, after recording size.
Observations: Actual volume: xx mL
Color change:
Gas evolution:
Temperature change:
Data Collected: The provided data table can be pasted into this section or rewritten for each lab. Include calculations for theoretical yield, actual yield,
percent yield, percent error, and any other calculations that were performed in the
completion of the data table.
(skip one line)
Discussion: Discussion should correlate expected data with obtained data in scientific terms, without personal opinion.
Conclusion: Conclusion should scientifically critic the success of the experiment, without personal opinion and without over emphasis on errors.
Contents of discussion and conclusion together should not exceed five scientifically written
sentences.
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This document includes the lab notebook guidelines.
1. Each lab time, in addition to arriving appropriately dressed, a pre-lab must be completed.
ready for the lab you’re supposed to do that day Failure to appear at the lab
Failure to complete the pre-lab and inappropriate attire will result in dismissal from the week’s classes.
lab with a point allocation of 0
a. Each pre-lab should contain the following sections: Name, Title, Date, Unknown, and
Table of Chemical and Physical Properties, Purpose, Balanced Equations
Under Data Collected, there is a procedure and an incomplete data table. This should be done.
Submitted to CANVAS before to the start of the lab and will be checked for plagiarism
This is due at the start of the lab time (mandatory).
2. Do not leave the house without
