This subject contains a 4 day Compulsory Residential School.
The residential school provides students the opportunity to:
- experience the chemistry of transition metal synthesis
- use model kits to explore crystalline and other solid state structures
- perform new standard laboratory techniques
- use analytical instrumentation
- draw on learning from first year and apply this learning to inorganic chemical processes
- write formal laboratory reports in which the students write about their observations and interpretations and present and evaluate their results
- experience mistakes in the laboratory and learn to save what appears to be failed reactions
- reinforce and elaborate on classroom theory