Library Assignment 1
Library Assignment 1
The objective of this assignment is to familiarize you with various sources of chemical information available to you in the library. If you do not already know how to use the library, this assignment will help you in that respect also. If you have difficulty, please seek help from the library staff; their job is to help you use the library, but not to do your work for you.
This library assignment will have a secondary benefit; it will better equip you to solve problems that may arise as you continue with the next series of experiments. If you have a problem, first identify the problem, THEN attempt to solve it. The information you need may be available in you lecture textbook or lab manual. Other times you may need to go to a more specific reference book to determine certain values, or you may need to go to a more advanced chemistry lab manual or lecture textbook to learn a procedure.
Certain specific lab procedures you need to accomplish a given objective can be found int he library sources of information. Other procedures may be either too difficult to find in the library, or may be in general form only; in the later case, you must adapt a general procedure to your specific problem.
At all times during this library assignment or during future lab experiments, feel free to discuss problems with another student or your instructor; the discussion may serve to focus attention on problem areas you haven’t yet considered. THIS DOES NOT MEAN CHEATING (DIRECT COPYING) IN ANY FORM IS CONDONED OR PERMITTED, especially during this library assignment. The library assignment is intended to be an individual effort to help you to learn how to find specific information that will be of value to you in this course.
For each reference source, try to familiarize yourself with other kinds of information that might be obtained from that source, i.e. why the source might be useful in the future.
Look up the following information from the following specific sources. For each reference source, print out the bibliographical reference information, which includes the Library of Congress call number, or if a periodical, the title of the periodical, date of the periodical, volume of the periodical, title of the article, author, and page number(s).
The information called for by the question should be answered or listed next. You may paraphrase or summarize as appropriate, BUT DO NOT SIMPLY COPY (PLAGERIZE) lines from the reference source.
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1. Find in a scientific dictionary or a scientific encyclopedia the following: (don’t forget page numbers)
a. Thixotropy b. Opium c. Catalytic Converter d. nanotechnology
2. Find in a DIFFERENT scientific dictionary or a DIFFERENT scientific encyclopedia the following:
a. Quark b. Azeotrope c. Gibberellic acid
3. Look up the following in the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (don’t forget page #’s and edition)
a. Formula of lanthanum molybdate in Physical Constants of Inorganic Compounds
b. Melting point of camphor (dl)
c. Solubility of arsenic pentasulfide in cold water
d. Half-life of radium-226 in Table of the Isotopes
e. Discoverers of element 103
f. Oxidation states (or valence electrons) of manganese
g. Specific gravity of kernite in Physical Constants of Minerals
h. Boiling point of acetone/chloroform azeotrope in Azeotropes
I. Upper limits of flammability of ethyl alcohol in Limits of Flammability
4. Look up the following in the MERCK INDEX
a. Percentage composition of TESTOSTERONE
b. What is the molecular weight of INSULIN?
c. Solubility of COCAINE in cold water
d. Therapeutic category (Therap Cat) of LOPERAMIDE
e. Human Toxicity of DISULFIRAM (LD50)
f. Therapeutic category (Therap Cat) of WARFARIN
Summarize the following articles in one or two short paragraphs.
5. Find an article by Mitch Jacoby and Jessie Jiang in Chemical & Engineering News on a Rare Earth Supply.
6. Find an article on nanotechnology in Scientific American between 2000 and 2010
7. Find an article on “The Chemistry of Cement” in the Journal of Chemical Education.
8. Find an article on pre-life chemistry found in a meteorite in Science News.
9. A before and after photo of an individual on methamphetamine. (Cite source)
10. Place the following on another separate sheet of paper at the END of your report. Look up one article found in one of the journals listed below dealing with any area of chemistry. Include a printout of the bibliographical information of the periodical. American Scientist, Discover, J College Sci Teaching, Natural History, New Scientist, Chemical & Engineering News
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