Basic Laboratory Skills Courses
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Basic Laboratory Skills Courses
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Why waste valuable time and money preparing basic laboratory skills courses and induction training for new laboratory staff when you could:
- Allow the Crawford Scientific training professionals to design and implement training around your existing procedures and basic laboratory instrumentation.
- Ensure that all staff are trained in basic laboratory operations such as
- weighing
- pipetting
- titrimetry
- volumetric work
- moisture determination
- pH determination
- use of laboratory notebooks
- All sessions can be a mix of practical and theory training and can include assessment and analyst validation exercises if required
- We can deliver off the shelf packages for you or design bespoke courses based on your existing SOP’s and laboratory procedures.
- We can deliver ‘train the trainer’ packages to your senior staff which will allow you to run induction and basic training courses in-house using the material that we have developed for you
For more information on how you can easily develop a range of world class induction and basic training courses for your organisation – click here
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Basic Chemistry for Analytical Scientists |
For anyone who is new to analytical sciences or for anyone brave enough to admit to having forgotten some of the fundamental principles! This Basic Chemistry short course can be customised to suit the needs of particular groups of scientists and aims to cover the underpinning chemical principles of solution based and instrumental analytical science.
Topics are customised to particular learner groups – typical one day course would cover 2 - 3 units of instruction, depending upon topics chosen.
All topics contain worked examples & tutorial exercises. For more information on our basics refresher courses – click here
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Measurements and Calculations
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- Physical Properties
- Measurements in Chemistry (SI units, conversion of units, pre-fixes, typical measurements)
- Accuracy, Precision and Error
- Significant Figures and Scientific Notation (Rules for Zero’s, Significant Figures)
- Using and interchanging units in calculations
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Atoms and Molecules |
- Atoms Symbols
- Chemical Formula
- Atomic Structure
- Isotopes
- Mole and Formula Weights
- Making up solutions / Concentration
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Atomic Interaction |
- The Octet Rule
- Common Charges
- Energy and Bond Formation
- Ionic Compounds (naming Ionic Compounds)
- Covalent Compounds (naming Covalent Compounds)
- Molecular Geometry and Polarity
- Properties of Ionic and Covalent Compounds
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Acids Bases and Salts |
- Acid-Base Theory
- Acid – Base Properties
- Acid-base Strength
- Hydrolysis
- Weak Acids and Bases
- pH and pKa / pKb
- Buffers
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Aqueous Solutions |
- Electrolytes
- Acids and Bases
- Chemical Equilibrium
- Activity and Ionic Strength
- Kw
- Solubility
- Acid Base dissociation
- Complex Formation
- REDOX equilibria
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Reactions in Solution |
- Solubility
- Properties of Aqeous Solutions
- Acids, Bases and Salts
- Ionic Equations
- Single Replacement Reactions
- Concentration
- Preparing Solutions
- Solution Stoichiometry
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General Organic Chemistry (including typical reactions) |
- Alkanes
- Unsaturated Hydrocarbons
- Alcohols, Phenols and Ethers
- Aldehydes and Ketones
- Carboxylic acids and Esters
- Amines and Amides
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Data Treatment |
- Error and Uncertainty
- Probability
- Normal Distribution
- Large and Small data sets
- Univarite Tools
- Degrees of Freedom
- Pooled Statistics
- Analysis of Variance
- Sources of Variance
- Confidence intervals –t tests
- F-test
- Data Rejection
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