VISAYAS STATE UNIVERSITY – ISABEL

Brgy. Marvel, Isabel, Leyte

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COMPILATION OF EXPERIMENTS/ACTIVITIES
IN CHEMISTRY FOR ENGINEERS
(ESci 115 -LAB)

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Submitted by:
ALEAH JAN P. VALERIO
BSIE- 1B

Submitted to:
ENGR. REYNAFLOR A. LICARDO
Instructor II

First Semester
S.Y. 2024-2025
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Expt Date
Title Rating Remarks
. No Performed

0 Lab Rules and Safety 08/19/24

1 Common Laboratory Apparatus 08/19/24

2 The Bunsen Burner 09/02/24

3 Common Laboratory Operations I 09/23/24

4 Common Laboratory Operations II 10/21/24

Calorimetry: Specific Capacity of

5 10/28/24
Copper

6 Heat of Combustion of a Candle 11/11/24

 SAFETY AND LABORATORY RULES FOR GENERAL CHEMISTRY

THINK SAFETY.
In everything that you do in the laboratory, always keep this in mind. The
welfare of everyone depends on your simple compliance of the rules of safety
so that any hazards that may arise due to violations of the rules are your resp
onsibility.

I. Safety Rules
A. General
1. Understand the experiments and follow the procedures carefully.
Performing unauthorized experiments are strictly prohibited.
2. Report all accidents, big or small, occurring in the laboratory to your
instructor immediately.
3. Know the location of the fire extinguisher, first-aid kit and safety shower.
a. The shower is intended for use in case corrosive chemicals are spilled
or splashed over a large body area. Do not use the shower to
extinguish clothing on fire.
b. If a person’s clothing is on fire, roll him on the floor to smother the
flames quickly. Never turn a fire extinguisher on a person whose
clothing is on fire. Eye injury may result from soda acid type of fire
extinguisher and frostbite from the carbon acid type.
c. Small laboratory fires are best smothered with a small cloth or book.
4. Plenty of running water is the best first aid treatment for all acid or alkali
accidents to skin, clothing, or laboratory furniture. All spills must be
reported and cleaned up at once.
a. Clothing soaked with strong acid or alkali should be removed at once.
b. In case of chemical eye injury, the eyes must be forced open
immediately and flushed thoroughly with water for 10 minutes.
5. Never distill nor evaporate flammable, volatile liquids such as alcohol,
ether and benzene over open flames.
6. Smoking is not permitted in laboratories or stockrooms.
7. Practical jokes, boisterous actions and excessive noise are forbidden.
8. Keep away from the sink all solid wastes not soluble in water like papers,
matches, broken glass, etc. to avoid plugging of drains. They should be
disposed of properly and never in the sink.
9. Only liquid wastes which are not toxic or corrosive are poured into sinks
while flushing with water. Volatile liquids should not be disposed in the
sink because of the possibility of forming gas pockets which may blow
back and ignite. Special containers for the disposal of these wastes will
be provided.
10. Place round-bottomed apparatus on a ring tripod supported with clamps
cushioned with rubber or asbestos pads.
11. Turn-off or put in a silent mode any electronic devices like cell phones
before entering the laboratory.
12. All bottles containing chemicals should be plainly labeled. Materials
found in unlabeled bottles should be turned over to the instructor.
13. Never weigh chemicals directly on the balance pan. Use a weighing
paper or a watch glass.
 14. Use the quantities of reagent recommended from your laboratory
manual.

B. Personal Protection
1. Make it a habit to wear your laboratory gown/apron and safety
glasses/personal glasses in the laboratory at all times.
2. Never taste nor smell a chemical unless directed by your instructor. If
you are instructed to smell a chemical, do so by gently fanning the
vapors toward your nose.
3. When heating or carrying out a reaction in a test tube, never point the
mouth of the test tube towards yourself or to anyone else.
4. When cutting or inserting glass tubing, always protect your hands with a
towel. When inserting rods, tubing or thermometers into stoppers, the
glass should be lubricated with soapy water or glycerol. Freshly-cut glass
tubing should be fire-polished.
5. Glass tubing should extend well through rubber stoppers so that if
rubber swells, no closures will occur.
6. When diluting acids, always pour the acid to the water, not the water to
the acid.
7. Never use your mouth in pipetting liquids. Use a pipet bulb.
8. Confine long hair when in the laboratory.
9. Beware of hot glass. Glass cools slowly and may be hot enough to
cause painful burns without appearing to be so.
10. Do not use cracked or chipped glassware.

II. General Rules for Laboratory Conduct

1. Wear your laboratory gown/apron and safety glasses properly at all
times in the lab.
2. As much as possible, free the bench tops with unnecessary apparatus
or things.
3. Report any loss to your instructor as soon as possible before the
laboratory period ends.
4. Insert nothing into bottles of solid or liquid reagents. Pour the estimated
amount on a piece of weighing paper or into a beaker. Discard any
excess. Do not return to the stock bottle.
5. Pipets are not inserted into bottles of liquid reagents. Pour the estimated
quantity into a beaker or graduated cylinder. Wipe away drips from neck
and sides of these bottles. Discard any excess. Do not return to the
stock bottle.
6. When picking up a beaker, place your fingers around the outside of the
bottom, not over the top rim. Small beakers of hot solutions are best
picked up by means of folded paper strip.
7. Drinking and eating (including chewing gums) are not allowed in the lab
at all times.
8. All borrowed glassware must be washed with soap and water before
returning.
9. Before leaving the laboratory, make sure your working area is wiped
with a wet sponge and dried clean with a cloth.
10. Be sure that water, electrical and gas supplies are completely shut off.
I hereby acknowledged that I have read and understood all the safety rules
and regulations of the laboratory and I promise to do my best to respect an
d observe these rules for the welfare of my neighbors and for my own safet
y.

Course:___________ Semester:___________ Class Schedule: _____________

SIGNED:____________________________ Date:______Contact No.:________
Signature over Printed Name of Student

Witnesses:
1. MA. REYNAFLOR A. LICARDO 2.
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Name of Instructor Laboratory–In-Charge

In case of emergency:
Contact person:______________________Contact No.:_________________
 RULES TO BE FOLLOWED IN THE GENERAL CHEMISTRY LAB

I. CHECKING IN: Students will be divided into four to six groups, depending on
the total number of students enrolled per class. Each group will choose their
leader and they will be assigned to occupy a particular area or table where they
will perform every activity during the lab period the whole semester. The
members of each group will be fully responsible for all the apparatus to be used
for all experiments including the orderliness and cleanliness of their assigned
areas for the entire semester.

II. JOURNAL:
a) One (1) standard 8-1/4 x 11 page notebook (standard lesson plan),
80/40 leaves.
b) Never tear out pages from this journal. In case of erasures, just cross
the word(s) with a horizontal line and enclose the lined word(s) with
parenthesis.
c) Leave the first two sheets of the journal for the table of contents from
your experiments/activities. Prepare the headings as below at the
first page:

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Expt/Act No.: Title: Date Performed: Instructor’s Initial: Rating: Remarks:

The first three entries of the table of contents should be filled-up every time an
experiment is to be performed ready for the teacher’s OK after every satisfactory
activity.

III. LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS:

A. Before coming to the laboratory, write the following in your journal:
1. Title of the Experiment and Period Number
2. Purpose of the experiment
3. Chemical symbol/formula for the chemicals used in the experiment to be
performed
4. Names of the apparatus to be used
5. Procedure of the experiment written only on the left side of the journal.

B. Getting the materials and apparatus:

1. The leader or group representative (if the leader is not available) sign in
the logbook provided at the counter with the groups corresponding log
number.
2. Upon receiving the tray, check the materials/apparatus for
lacking/cracks/damage.
3. Return/report to the counter for lacking /cracks/damage/apparatus 15
minutes after receiving the tray. Failure to report within the 15 minutes
period will be considered breakage.
4. Breakages shall be reported to the counter immediately. A breakage list
shall be provided for every group. The student responsible for the
breakage should affix his/her signature in the presence of the laboratory
assistant or instructor who will also affix his/her signature on the
breakage list.
 5. Apparatus breakage(s) shall be replaced by the student(s) concerned
with the same brand and size together with the official receipt of the
purchase and shall be given to the instructor or laboratory assistant
before or as the term ends. The instructor or laboratory assistant shall
then affix his/her signature with the remarks “replaced” together with the
date of replacement on the breakage list.

C. During the laboratory period:

1. Record what you observed during the experiment. As for your
observations, synchronized the numbering in the procedure of your
experiment with that in your journal per observation for a clearer
reference. Follow the form indicated below ( at the right side page):

Observations Inferences

2. Do not throw right away your evidences that you have performed the
activity unless your instructor have seen your results and what you have
recorded. If your instructor is satisfied, all the group members will be
given an OK in your journal for that part of the experiment.
3. After you have completed the activity for the period and received the
instructor’s OK, get his/her initial in your table of contents.
4. Clean your apparatus and return the apparatus in the same tray and let
the lab assistant check them for lacking, cracks or damage. The group
should see to it that their leader or representative signed the logbook as
fully returned. Tidy up your portion of the laboratory table. Your
neatness will have an influence on each one’s final laboratory mark.

IV. REPORT AND GRADES:

A. Paper: Official Laboratory Report (OLR) paper should be used for the first
page of each report. If a laboratory report template is included in the guide, the
first page should still be the OLR paper followed by the template or any good
quality paper of the same size for the next succeeding pages.

B. Writing the Report: In writing the report, you should not copy the
procedure from the lab guide. Describe in your own words what you did
and what you observed. Do not type your report but use your own handwriting.
Use your journal as your guide. Write the following in your final report:
1. Experiment No.
2. Purpose of the Experiment
3. Chemical formula of the materials and names of the apparatus used
4. Procedure and Observations: Write what you did and observed in your
own words using past tense passive voice sentences. Include the
balanced chemical equations for all the reactions observed.
5. Significance of the Experiment (Conclusion): Use the questions asked
in the laboratory sheets as your guide and state the conclusions
 drawn from your observations. Did the activity meet the purpose of the
experiment? Explain.
C. Reports are due at the beginning of the laboratory period one week after the
satisfactory completion of the experiment. Example, if you performed an
experiment on Thursday from one to four in the afternoon, then the final report for
that experiment is due the next Thursday at one o’clock in the afternoon.
D. Reports handed in late will be deducted accordingly.
E. Make-up experiments are to be done only during the term and should be
requested by the student concerned and arranged with the teacher handling the
course.
F. If the student lacks 30 percent of the prescribed experiment/ report for the
course (due to absence, unsatisfactory work, late reports) that student will
automatically receive a grade of 5.0.
G. If the student is absent 20 percent of the time during the entire semester, he
will be automatically dropped from the roll.

V. GUIDELINES FOR APPRAISAL IN THE GENERAL CHEMISTRY

LABORATORY PER SESSION

SAFETY: (5%)
 Wears lab gown and goggles
 Does not engage in boisterous conducts
 Ties long hair
 Clean and orderly area
 Remove any dangling accessories
 Refrain from unsafe actions like (playing with lighted torches or walking
very fast while carrying chemicals or apparatus)
PREPARATION: (5%)
 Writes formulas for chemicals used
 Answers pre-lab exercises
 Writes down questions to ask teachers like clarification of procedures
 Necessary data tables are prepared
PERFORMANCE RATING (15%)
 Uses correct laboratory techniques
 Shows evidence of having read and understood procedure
 Correctly organizes set-up to be used
 Shares work with partner
 Begins work as soon as class starts
 Stays in working area assigned
DATA PRESENTATION (15%)
 Reports data and observation in an organized manner
 Works out calculations in correct units
 Accurately draws graphs
 Correctly analyzes and interprets results
 Recognizes connections between observations and related chemistry
concepts
 Recognizes sources of errors in experiments
VI. POLICIES FOR MAKE-UP LABORATORY CLASSES
A. Students who missed one experiment do not have the privilege of having
any make-up class. Only after having missed a second experiment will a
student be given the chance to have a make-up class.
B. The following are considered valid in granting a request for a make-up class:
1. illness due to communicable disease (medical certification is necessary)
2. hospitalization (medical certification is also required)
3. death of an immediate member of the family (photocopy of death
certificate should be presented)
4. participation in the university sanctioned activities ( original copy of letter
of excuse from the university’s local
organizing committee should be submitted)
C. The student should preferably perform the make-up experiment during
his/her own laboratory teacher’s class. If it is not possible, he/she may join
the class of another teacher provided the teacher agrees and the class is
currently performing the same experiment to be made-up.
D. The student will write a letter requesting for make-up experiment with its final
schedule to be signed by his/her teacher for validity of the request and the
Head of the Department where the student belongs for the final approval.
E. In cases where the student joins a class of another teacher, the signature of
the said teacher should also appear in the request letter.

I hereby acknowledged that I have read and understood all the safety rules
and regulations of the laboratory and I promise to do my best to respect
and observe these rules for the welfare of my neighbors and for my own
safety.

Witnesses:
1. MA. REYNAFLOR A. LICARDO 2.
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Name of Instructor Laboratory–In-Charge

Date Signed: ______________________ Date Signed:

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Compiled Experiments/Activities
in
Chemistry for Engineers – Lab
(ESci 115 – Lab)

VISAYAS STATE UNIVERSITY - ISABEL

MARVEL, ISABEL, LEYTE

Submitted by:
VALERIO, AEAH JAN P.
BSIE – 1B

Submitted to:
ENGR. REYNAFLOR A. LICARDO
Instructor II

First Semester
S.Y. 2024-2025