PPE
This piece of safety equipment is used to cover someone if their clothing would catch on fire during a lab.
What is a fire blanket?
Student A is using a wafting technique to detect the scent of an unknown liquid substance.
What is a good?
This piece of lab equipment is used to measure volume of liquids during a lab.
What is a graduated cylinder?
This is where broken glass, including TLC capillary tubes, must be disposed.
What is a broken glass waste box?
This piece of safety equipment is used only by trained individuals in case of a fire during a lab to put out small fire.
What is a fire extinguisher?
Student B is working alone in the lab.
What is bad?
This is a technique used to separate a mixture of liquids that have different boiling points.
What is a distillation?
The is where you dispose needles and sharps?
What is a sharps disposal container?
These two items must be worn all the times when working in chemistry labs.
What are lab coats and safety glasses?
Student C always checks the chemical hazards for each particular chemical using SDS.
What is good ?
This is a technique used to separate a compound from a mixture by selectively dissolving it into a chosen solvent.
What is a extraction?
You never dispose any hazardous chemical, solid or liquid, in this.
What is drain or sink or regular trash can?
With the labcoats and safety glasses, these are also required to wear when working with hazardous chemicals such as acids, bases, organic solvents or liquid nitrogen.
What are gloves?
This piece of safety equipment is used to wash off chemicals or substances that might have splashed into your eyes.
What is an eyewash station?
Student D is wearing goggles while picking up broken glass from a beaker that was dropped on the floor.
What is bad ? (Tell the lab instructor and use a sweeper!)
This is a technique used to purify a solid involves dissolving the impure sample in a minimal amount of hot solvent and slowly cooling down.
What is a recrystallization?
This is the recommended level when a hazardous waste container is considered full
What is 3/4 or 75%?
This should be the type of labcoat worn when using a flammable chemical.
What is flame retardant lab coat?
This is the first person that should be made aware of any mishaps or accidents during a lab.
What is the lab instructor?
Student E uses ethyl acetate (volatile solvent) outside the fume hood.
What is bad? (You must always use a proper funtioning hood when using volatile chemicals)
This equipment used in chemical laboratories for the efficient and gentle removal of solvents from samples by evaporation.
What is a rotary evaporator?
This is provides information about chemical safety and is available online.
What is SDS?