Environmental Chemistry

The following course was developed at the Ukrainian State University of Science and Technologies. 

The course pays special attention to the features of work in the lab. The lab is a unique place where you need to feel calm, confident and comfortable. You will see all the ins and outs of lab work, unusual and unforeseen situations, ideal and non-ideal calibration curves, spoiled reagents/solutions. We will go a long and thorny way from the names of lab glassware, basic lab techniques and “ancient” titration to precise elemental analysis using highly sensitive equipment. 

Learning outcomes / Competencies

Basic laboratory techniques (pipetting, solution preparation, solution dilution); calibration and spectrophotometric analysis; wastewater treatment, research design and plan; water, soil and plant sampling; sample preparation, sequential extraction, microwave digestion, elemental analysis: ICP-MS & ICP-OES.