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Laboratory Safety & Basic Laboratory Skills

Laboratory safety measures


1. Safety goggles
It prevents any chemicals to contact your eyes. Any harm on eyes cannot easily be recovered.
2. Plastic gloves
For handling concentrated acids, concentrated alkalis and corrosive chemicals, it prevents
the direct contact of corrosive chemicals to your skin.
Corrosive
3. Fume cupboard
Toxic and pungent gases are removed by a ventilating system and so no gases are released
to laboratory during experiments. Toxic
4. Laboratory coat
It provides the complete protection of your chest, hands and part of legs.
5. Safety screen
It acts as a shield to prevent the spillage of chemicals on any persons in case
of explosive chemicals Flammable Explosive
Immediate action after accidents
1. Fire
Evacuate all persons away from fire and report to teacher immediately. Do not attempt to put out fire.
2. Acid spillage
For any chemicals spilling on your eyes or your skin, you need to wash the affected area immediately
with plenty of water then report to teacher.
3. Leakage of toxic gas/LPG gas
For any odour smell, evacuate all persons away and report to teachers immediately.
Basic Laboratory Skills
1. Burning magnesium in air
(i) Light up a Bunsen burner to obtain a non-luminous flame
(ii) Use a pair of tongs to put a piece of magnesium ribbon into the non-luminous flame
Safety precaution: Observation:
Safety goggles, heat proof mat Bright white light; white powder
2. Adding magnesium into dilute hydrochloric acid
(i) Fill one-third of a test tube with dilute hydrochloric acid
(ii) Add a piece of magnesium into the acid and place the test tube in a test hydrochloric
tube rack acid
magnesium
(iii) Use a stopper to cover the test tube to collect the gas for 2 minutes
(iv) Use a burning splint (match) to test the gas collected
Safety precaution: Observation:
Safety goggles;Cover test tube with an inverted stopper Step (ii): gas bubbles; magnesium dissolves
to prevent building up of high gas pressure Step (iv): a pop sound
3. Adding a dilute acid into a bleaching solution hydrochloric wet blue
(i) Place 20 drops of bleaching solution in a test tube acid litmus paper
(ii) Use a pair of forceps to hold a wet blue litmus paper near the
bleaching
mouth of the test tube solution
(iii) Add 10 drops of dilute acid (hydrochloric acid) drop by drop
Safety precaution: Observation:
Safety goggles; fume cupboard (chlorine is toxic) Turns yellow solution; gas bubbles;
Add acid drop by drop Wet blue litmus paper turns to red and then white
delivery tube
4. Adding dilute hydrochloric acid to calcium carbonate solid
calcium
(i) Fill ¼ test-tube with limewater carbonate
(ii) Add 1 spatula measure of calcium carbonate in another test-tube
dilute
(iii) Add ¼ test-tube with dilute hydrochloric acid to calcium carbonate hydrochloric acid
(iv) Pass the gas through the delivery tube to limewater limewater

Safety precaution: Observation:


Safety goggles; Add acid not more than 1/3 of test tube Step (iii): gas bubbles, solid dissolves
Step (iv): colourless limewater turns milky

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