[CHM 111] Alum Lab Preparations

[Andrew J. Pounds]

Okay -- unlike last weeks lab, next week's lab is DANGEROUS. In one 
point you will be boiling a concentrated base to dissolve aluminum metal 
-- yeah!

Many of you last week were using your phones to read the online notes -- 
you cannot do this again. Please have ENOUGH of the lab procedures 
written into your lab notebook so that you can complete the lab without 
the online documentation by your side.   I really don't want to see any 
of the printed material from the website at your lab bench -- only your 
notebooks.

The lab assistants (Kali and Melanie) will be checking you lab notebooks 
prior to lab and I will be collecting the carbon copies at the end of 
lab. If you do not have your procedures ready you will be escorted to a 
classroom where you can prepare them before entering the lab. I am sure 
your lab partner will not like that...

Anybody not prepared to start the lab by 9:15 (goggles, appropriate 
clothing, notebook prepared) will not be allowed to enter and it will be 
counted as an unexcused absence.

I hate to sound like the "mean guy" -- but the chemistry faculty take 
lab safety very seriously.

-- 
Andrew J. Pounds, Ph.D.  (pounds_aj at mercer.edu)
Professor of Chemistry and Computer Science
Mercer University,  Macon, GA 31207   (478) 301-5627
http://faculty.mercer.edu/pounds_aj