This entire presentation will be posted on the gen chem website!
•Gen Chem Basics
•Safety Training
•Lab Packet Information
•Getting Started on ICN

Useful general chemistry websites:
(1) The General Chemistry website: http://umaine.edu/general-chemistry
(2) The InterChemNet website: http://icn2.umeche.maine.edu/newnav/NewNavigator/LoginForm.cfm
(3) The Links page: http://icn2.umeche.maine.edu/newnav/Homepage/Links/links.html
(4) The FAQ page: http://icn2.umeche.maine.edu/newnav/FAQ/FAQ.cfm

http://umaine.edu/general-chemistry

http://icn2.umeche.maine.edu/newnav/NewNavigator/LoginForm.cfm

http://icn2.umeche.maine.edu/newnav/Homepage/Links/links.html

• http://icn2.umeche.maine.edu/newnav/F
AQ/FAQ.cfm

• Lab is integral to Gen Chemistry lecture .
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If you "think chemistry" in lab, you can make chemistry connections - even when some students find it "easy".
• Keeping a good lab notebook is required .
– See ICN Links page for guidelines. 3-5 pages of notes/experiment is normal. With 10+ experiments, you should fill up most of a 50 page book.
• Lab reports are required
– Your lab report is based on your lab notes and observations. See ICN Links page for guidelines.
• Lab and lecture are co-requisites
– If you drop either lab or lecture, you will be required to drop the other.
• If you miss a lab, you can make it up
– see FAQ page for procedure

• Before coming to lab, you are required to complete all assigned prelab work. This includes:
– Carefully reading the lab procedures
– Noting any steps that require special safety precautions (e.g. “ do in hood ” ) directly in your lab notebook.
– Completing all pre-lab safety instructions (e.g. MSDS sheets)
• You lab instructor may inspect your lab notebook before you start an
experiment.
– You will not be permitted to start a lab, if you fail to note in your lab notebook, steps that require special safety precautions
– You will not be permitted to start an experiment, if in the opinion of the instructor, you are not prepared to conduct a lab experiment.

• General Chemistry Laboratory Safety Policies can be found at: http://icn2.umeche.maine.edu/newnav/genChemWebsite/Policies.html
• You are required to sign off on the safety policies before attending lab!
• The chemistry laboratory can be a dangerous environment and safety precautions must be observed at all times.
– Even if an experiment seems completely harmless, you must remember to expect the unexpected. Therefore, it is mandatory that you follow these rules at all times.

• 1. Eating, drinking, and smoking are forbidden in the lab.
– Do not bring food or drink in any form into the lab.
– No eating or drinking (including gum chewing) in lab or sitting on lab benches

• 2. Goggles must be worn, covering your eyes completely, at all times.
– As soon as you arrive in lab, you must put on your goggles.
– If you need to remove them, you should leave the laboratory first.
– We provide goggles that will be acceptable in the lab
– Most of our labs have adjacent room, which we call breakout room. If you don't arrive when the TA allows students to enter the lab, enter the breakout room. There will be a box of temp googles which you can use to retrieve your goggles at your bench.
– Refusing to wear your goggles will result in a failing grade.

• 3. Contact lenses may not be worn in lab.
– Gases can get trapped under contact lenses
– If you use contact lenses and cannot use glasses in lab you may be forced to drop the course. Please see Bob Kirk or the Laboratory
Coordinator, Mitchell Bruce, 277 Aubert Hall, if you have any further questions.

• 4. Disposable gloves are available, and should be worn whenever handling hazardous chemicals.
– they must be removed before you leave the lab.
• We do not want to spread chemicals about the building.
– After lab, be sure to wash your hands thoroughly
– Never touch your eyes or face until you are sure that your hands are clean

• 4. Do not wear good clothes to lab.
– Sandals and open-toed shoes must not be
– Long hair must be pulled back
– Proper attire and shoes (including tying back long hair)

• 5.
If you are suffering from any illness or are taking medication please inform your instructor.
– This information could be important in case of an emergency.
– If you develop any medical condition, which might limit your ability to perform experiments in the laboratory, please immediately inform the laboratory coordinator.
– If you are pregnant or become pregnant during the semester, this may limit your ability to perform experiments in the laboratory; please immediately discuss this matter with the laboratory coordinator.
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This information will be treated confidentially

• 6.
Your TA will teach you about safe techniques and the location of lab safety features in the laboratory, including:
– Proper place to dispose chemicals
– Proper technique for preparing aqueous acids (add acid to water)
– Proper operation of hoods
– Broken glass disposal
– Evacuation procedures
– Proper technique for pushing glass tubing through a rubber stopper
– Emergency contacts (especially important for labs that run until 5 pm or later)
– Importance of cleaning the lab after each use
– Importance of keeping personal belonging out of the laboratory
– Safe procedures for handling concentrated acids

• Questions?

Fall
2011