In this Third Edition of EXPERIMENTS IN GENERAL CHEMISTRY: INQUIRY AND SKILL BUILDING, Vickie Williamson and Kathleen McCann draw on their years of experience in the classroom and laboratory, to provide carefully crafted experiments to complement any general chemistry curriculum. Three types of lab experiments lead to deeper student understanding: Skill Building experiments that develop techniques and demonstrate previously developed concepts, Guided Inquiry experiments that direct students to collect data on variables and guide them to look for patterns in the data, and Open Inquiry experiments that allow students to apply concepts or relationships in a new setting. The manual’s 31 experiments feature prelab exercises and post-lab questions. The latest edition can be reviewed and customized at http://compose.cengage.com.

EXPERIMENT 1 - Are Labels Accurate or Precise? (An Open Inquiry Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 2 - Density Measurements (A Skill Building Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 3 - Cost of a Chemical Product (A Guided Inquiry Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 4 - Soap Making (A Skill Building Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 5 - Reactions of Calcium (A Guided Inquiry Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 6 - Aluminum and Copper (II) Chloride (A Guided Inquiry Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 7 - Recycling Aluminum Cans (A Skill Building Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 8 - Patterns (A Guided Inquiry Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 9 - Solutions and Crystals of Alum (A Guided Inquiry Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 10 - Analysis of a Carbonated Beverage (A Guided Inquiry Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 11 - Mass Relationships in Reactions (An Open Inquiry Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 12 - Shapes of Molecules and Ions (A Guided Inquiry Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 13 - The Fuel in a Bic® Lighter (A Guided Inquiry Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 14 - Alka-Seltzer®: An Application of Gas Laws (A Guided Inquiry Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 15 – Exploring Intermolecular Forces (A Guided Inquiry Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 16 - Freezing Points of Solutions (A Guided Inquiry Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 17- Spectrochemical Analysis (A Guided Inquiry Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 18 - Heat of Crystallization (A Skill Building Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 19 - Enthalpy of Reaction (A Guided Inquiry Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 20 - The Kinetics of the Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide (A Guided Inquiry Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 21 - Kinetics of Decoloration of Crystal Violet (A Guided Inquiry Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 22 - Factors Affecting Reactions (A Guided Inquiry Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 23 - Formation of a Complex (A Skill Building Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 24- Acids and pH (A Guided Inquiry Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 25 - Reactions of Acids And Bases (A Guided Inquiry Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 26 - Acids and Bases (An Open Inquiry Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 27 - Electrochemistry (A Guided Inquiry Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 28 - Small-Scale Redox Titration (A Skill Building Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 29 - The Copper Cycle (An Open Inquiry Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 30 - Organic Molecules (A Guided Inquiry Experiment).
EXPERIMENT 31 - Reactions of Organic Compounds (A Guided Inquiry Experiment).
Common Procedures and Concepts.

In this Third Edition of EXPERIMENTS IN GENERAL CHEMISTRY: INQUIRY AND SKILL BUILDING, Vickie Williamson and Kathleen McCann draw on their years of experience in the classroom and laboratory, to provide carefully crafted experiments to complement any general chemistry curriculum. Three types of lab experiments lead to deeper student understanding: Skill Building experiments that develop techniques and demonstrate previously developed concepts, Guided Inquiry experiments that direct students to collect data on variables and guide them to look for patterns in the data, and Open Inquiry experiments that allow students to apply concepts or relationships in a new setting. The manual’s 31 experiments feature prelab exercises and post-lab questions. The latest edition can be reviewed and customized at http://compose.cengage.com. Guided Inquiry experiments guide students to form generalizations and hypotheses to explain their data. Open Inquiry experiments have students design experiments to answer questions based on their understanding of concepts. A section on laboratory safety and a student safety agreement help ensure a safe laboratory. Prelab exercises that ensure students are prepared for the lab session maximize bench time. Post-lab questions lead from data analysis to concept development and reinforce the core concepts of the lab. The manual’s perforated pages allow easy removal of prelab exercises and post-lab questions. A Common Procedures and Concepts appendix ensures students have the basic information needed to be successful in the lab. The latest edition can be reviewed and customized at http://compose.cengage.com. All labs are updated and revised based on input from usersat both large and small institutions.