Fundamentals of Chemistry & General Chemistry Labs
Course Number: CH110/CH111/CH130/CH131 (Lab)
Subject: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Welcome to the course guide for the lab component of CH110, CH111, CH130, and CH131. This guide highlights some of the library resources on general lab safety. It helps you find safety data sheets (SDSs), chemical and physical properties, and relevant background information for your experiments. It also assists you with citations.
If you have any questions, please contact your Chemistry Librarian, Siu at siyu@wlu.ca
Lab Safety
Handbook for Laboratory Safety (eBook, 2022)
- Chapters include personal protective equipment, working safely with chemicals, biohazards and radioactive materials, waste management, and handling accidents
Prudent Practices in the Laboratory: Handling and Management of Chemical Hazards (eBook, 2011)
- Chapters include working safely with chemicals and lab equipment, and waste management
Safety Data Sheet (SDS)
SDS Search (1 million+ SDSs)
- Maintained by Chemical Safety Software, a private, for-profit chemical environmental management company
ChemSpider (100 million+ chemicals)
- SDSs sourced from various chemical companies accessible under a compound's Vendors tap (the Vendors tap appears on a result page after your search)
Chemical and Physical Properties
- A Royal Society of Chemistry database with easy text and structure search, and access to over 100 million chemicals
- A National Institutes of Health chemistry database for authoritative chemical information
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
- A comprehensive reference source for properties, data and constants in chemistry and physics
- To find properties, click on the Flask icon in the top toolbar (desktop mode) or via the multi-menu button (mobile mode) to enter the Search Chemicals page
- You can then search by Chemical Name, Molecular Formula or CAS Registry No. using the search boxes under Value
Background Concepts and Calculation Examples
- Contains various open educational resources (OERs) on acid-base titrations, freezing point depression, Le Châtelier's Principle, equilibrium constants, Beer-Lambert's Law, electrochemistry and rate laws
- Search using the How can we help you? search box
Elementary Experimental Chemistry (eBook, reprinted in 2018)
- Contains experimental procedures and explanations relevant to general chemistry labs
Citing Sources
ACS Style
- How to cite in ACS style
- ACS Style Quick Guide
- CASSI Search Tool for journal abbreviations