Lab Library

πŸ§ͺ AP Chemistry Labs

All 16 official AP Chemistry laboratory experiments with procedures, pre-lab questions, and post-lab analysis.

Always perform lab work under proper supervision with appropriate safety equipment.

LAB 1

What Makes Hard Water Hard?

Unit 1⏱ 90 min

How can the hardness of water be determined from a given sample? What techniques and calculations are required to determine water’s hardness?

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LAB 2

Stoichiometry and Percent of a Hydrate

Unit 2⏱ 90 min

How can the percent and molar ratio of water in a hydrated salt be determined from a reaction in which a hydrated salt is produced?

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LAB 3

How Can the Gram Atomic Mass of an Element be Determined?

Unit 3⏱ 90 min

Knowing the atomic mass of one element in a balanced decomposition reaction, how can the gram atomic mass of another element be determined?

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LAB 4

How Can We Identify an Unknown Gas?

Unit 4⏱ 90 min

How can we determine the molar mass of a substance from measurements of the density of its vapor?

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LAB 5

Concentration vs. Transmitted Light Through a Solution

Unit 5⏱ 90 min

What is the relationship between the concentration of a solution and the amount of transmitted light through the solution?

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LAB 6

Kinetics Lab –The Iodination of Acetone

Unit 6⏱ 90 min

How can a rate law expression and a rate constant be determined from the collection of reactant concentration data? What does a rate law tell about a reaction?

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LAB 7

Finding the Constant - Kc

Unit 7⏱ 90 min

How can an equilibrium constant, Kc, be determined from absorbance data of a chemical species?

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LAB 8

Chemical Equilibrium

Unit 8⏱ 90 min

How can we use Le Chatelier’s Principle to explain phenomena of reversible reactions.

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LAB 9

Titration of a Weak Acid with a Strong Base

Unit 9⏱ 90 min

How can we determine the Ka (acid dissociation constant) of a weak acid?

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LAB 10

Heat of Vaporization of Liquid Nitrogen

Unit 1⏱ 90 min

How can we determine the heat energy needed to vaporize a liquid?

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LAB 11

Thermochemistry: Enthalpy of Formation of Magnesium Hydroxide

Unit 2⏱ 90 min

How can the heat of a reaction be determined from Hess' Law and calorimetry?

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LAB 12

Redox Titration

Unit 3⏱ 90 min

How can we determine the oxidation state of manganese in a redox titration?

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LAB 13

Electrochemical Cells

Unit 4⏱ 90 min

How can voltage of a battery (cell potential) be determined? How does concentration of products and reactants affect cell potential? How can we determine what reaction will occur when an external power source is applied to a solution?

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LAB 14

What’s in That Bottle?

Unit 5⏱ 90 min

How can you design a series of experiments and interpret data to determine unknowns based on bonding and intermolecular forces of attraction?

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LAB 15

Bonding: Molecular Geometries and Hybridization

Unit 6⏱ 90 min

How can we predict molecular shapes, bond angles and hybridizations of molecules? How do we calculate formal charge and what does it tell us?

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LAB 16

Mystery of the Thirteen Solutions

Unit 7⏱ 90 min

How can we determine the identity of a group of unknown solutions using physical and chemical properties?

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LAB 17

AP Lab Activity – Growing Crystals

Unit 8⏱ 90 min

How do metal crystals grow from a seeded solution?

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