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General Chemistry Laboratories
Welcome to the Chem 10X Laboratories. We are located on the second floor of the Gunning/Lemieux Chemistry Centre. This is what most of our Lab Rooms look like.

Questions concerning the Introductory University Chemistry courses ( Chem 101, 102, 103, 105 ) may be directed to the Course Coordinator, Dr Yoram Apelblat (Chem West room W4-67B, e-mail, phone 780-248-1500).

Questions concerning the Chem 10X laboratories may be directed to Dr. Norman Gee , the Laboratory Coordinator (Chem East room E2-34B, e-mail , phone 780-492-3438).

Did you know that use of the title "Professional Chemist" is legally protected in Alberta?

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977. (cited by Prof. O. Seely).

Change in Absence Policy

The Calendar has been changed so that medical notes (Medical Statements) are no needed for absences. This does not impact the 10X labs directly as these were never required for the 10X labs.

You will be given a hand-out in your first lab explaining what to do for absences. Read this carefully as these changes take effect immediately. Note that the time to report illness from term work is now specified. Therefore missed labs must be reported within TWO days rather than the 5 days currently in the Lab Manual.

Furthermore, note that instructors and Faculty Offices will retain the discretion to grant or not grant an excused absence for term work or examinations.

WARNING: Absence from Exams
It is in your interest to read and to be familiar with University policies on absences from exams (Calendar, sec 23.5.6). Note that
    " Instructors and Faculties are not required to grant excused absences for unacceptable reasons that include, but are not limited to personal events such as vacations, weddings, or travel arrangements. When a student is absent from a term or final exam without acceptable excuse, a final grade will be computed using a raw score of zero for the exam missed."

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If you enjoyed your labs this term, you agree with 74.6% of your classmates. Other lab survey results are shown here.

Do you think your TA deserves a teaching award? A number are given by the Graduate Students Association. Nomination packages are now posted on this site.

Chem 101, 102 and 103 labs start WEDNESDAY Jan 20. Your lab room assignments here NOW for Chem 101, Chem 102, and Chem 103 and also are posted outside E2-34.

Chem 105 students are assigned to the lab rooms shown here.

The Lec/Lab Help sessions are now on extended hours in C E2-34, 8am to 5pm on Mon, Thurs and Fri, 8am-8pm on Tues and Wed, and on Sun starting 1-7pm in CAB 229 (diff room from last term).

There is a Chem 10X on-line Lab Help site.

Chris Grant in the help room recommends the "Just Ask Antoine" site for common questions.

For a different take on organic chem, see the video

Resistant to Base

There is a new textbook this year: Chemistry, 5th ed by M.S. Silberberg.

You might have noticed that there are a LOT of you in general chem 10X this term. Currently (Aug 09), there are 2877 folks registered. The number of students registered (Sept after the add/delete) over the last 10 years is shown in this graph:

As a result, there might be NO room for any makeups.

Problems with chem in general ?

You might find the following helpful:


by Richard Felder of North Carolina State University gives advice about surviving any university course.
You might wish to look at the following:
  1. General Information.

    There is a new textbook this year: Chemistry, 5th ed by M.S. Silberberg. The exception is Chem 102/5 for Sept-Dec 2009 will stay with last year's text, Petrucci 9th ed. If you need a copy of Petrucci, just put an ad on the bulletin boards. There are THOUSANDS of used copies of Petrucci that folks would be delighted to unload.

    Links to WHMIS Data Sheets are here .

  2. Announcements Concerning Chem 10X Labs.

    There is a Chem 10X on-line Lab Help site.

  3. Frequently Asked Questions about the 10X labs.

  4. Lab Exam

    Frequently asked questions about the lab exam are answered here.

  5. Chem 10X Teaching Assistants who have won Faculty or University Teaching Awards or have served as Supervisory Teaching Assistants.

  6. Some feedback obtained by polling students:

  7. E-mail and Offices of Chem 10X Lab Instructors. The names of the Lab Instructors are given by lab room and time here. You can also go to the Lab Help sessions with questions about the experiments.

  8. Lab Room Assignment.
    Your lab room assignments are posted here for     Chem 101, Chem 102, and Chem 103 and Chem 105.

  9. Lab Schedules and lists of experiments with brief notes on the Chem 10X on-line Lab Help site.

For further information, you might want to
  • look at some other interesting chem links to sites about drugs obtained from tropical rain forest plants, coffee, atomic level images, career opportunities in Chemistry, interactive experiments, tutorial/help, the legal status of chemistry as a profession in Alberta, Scientific American, freeware for drawing and viewing molecular models, and more.
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