Standard techniques

The techniques below are useful in a range of experiments.

Here we shall provide instructions on how to carry out standard techniques used in a variety of different experiments.

We shall be generating these pages as we produce experiments which rely on standard techniques. As a start, here are ...

• Filtering
• Gas cylinders
• Generating, collecting, and testing gases
• Handling and moving hot apparatus
• Handling liquid bromine and preparing bromine water
• Handling, dispensing and transferring liquids (including flammable liquids)
• Heating substances
• Preparing and using cobalt chloride indicator papers
• Preparing and using potassium dichromate(VI) indicator papers
• Preparing solutions and other reagents
• Testing and smelling gases
• Thermometers
• Using a Bunsen burner

You can also access information and videos on a number of important standard techniques from the RSC resource ‘Practical Chemistry for Schools and Colleges’.