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Chemistry

Assigning virtual experiments as pre-lab assignments is an effective way to promote conceptual understanding and enable students to be both minds-on and hands-on when in physical lab. From osmosis, diffusion, pH balance, to spectrophotometry, discover how McGraw Hill Virtual Labs for Chemistry can support your student’s hands-on work.

Featured Simulations for Chemistry

  • Screenshot of Simple and Fractional Distillation to Separate Binary lab simulation

    Using Simple and Fractional Distillation to Separate Binary Liquid Mixture

    Students will separate an unknown mixture containing two miscible liquids and separate it into its components. Using simple distillation and fractional distillation, students use the same unknown mixture to determine each liquid component's boiling point and identity.

  • screenshot of Molecular Modeling Simulation

    Molecular Modeling

    Students will use Lewis structures and VSEPR theory to predict shapes of small molecules and polyatomic ions.

  • screenshot of Reactions in Solution simulation

    Reactions in Solution

    Students will observe indications of a chemical change after mixing aqueous solutions or adding a metal to an aqueous solution. Students will classify the chemical reaction and identify the net ionic equation.

See the growing list of Chemistry simulations here:

1st Lab Tutorial:

• Chemistry Virtual Labs Tutorial

Addition Reaction:

• Microscale Hydroboration of 3,3-Dimethyl-1-butene

Buffers:

• Buffers and Buffer Capacity

Calorimetry:

• Enthalpy of Neutralization

• Heat Capacity of a Calorimeter

Carbohydrates:

• Testing of Starch

• Testing of Sugars

Chemistry Lab Safety:

• Personal Safety

Colligative Properties:

• Freezing-Point Depression

Density:

• Density of a Plastic Cube

Electrochemistry:

• Standard Reduction Potentials and Concentration Dependencies

Enzymes:

• Effects of Concentration and Temperature

Equilibrium:

• Equilibrium Constant (Spectrophotometry)

Gas Law:

• Ideal Gas Law Constant

• Diffusion and Graham's Law

Kinetics:

• Iodine Clock Reaction

Lab Skills:

• Column Chromatography

• Determining Melting Point, Boiling Point and Refractive Index

• Gas Chromatography

• Miniscale Extraction and Recrystallization

• Paper Chromatography

• Thin-Layer Chromatography

• Using a Balance

• Using a Graduated Cylinder

• Using a Pipet and Buret

• Using a Ruler

• Using an Alcohol Thermometer

• Using Simple and Fractional Distillation to Separate Binary Liquid Mixture

• Using Volumetric Glassware for Dilutions

Nucleophilic Substitution Reaction:

• Miniscale Synthesis of 1‑Bromobutane

Organic Qualitative Analysis:

• Identifying Alkanes, Alkenes, and Alkyl Halides

Osmosis:

• Movement of Water Across a Semipermeable Membrane

pH:

• Antacids

Proteins:

• Testing for Amino Acids and Polypeptides

 

Reactions:

• Reactions in Solution

• Reactions in Solution (Balancing Equations)

Scientific Method:

• Pillbug Preference

Solubility:

• Qualitative Analysis

Spectrophotometry:

• Apply Beer's Law to Determine Concentration of Dye

Stoichiometry:

• Synthesis of Calcium Carbonate

• Synthesis of Soap and Its Properties

Titration:

• Concentration of Vinegar

• Identify Weak Acid Using Titration Curve

• Standardization of Sodium Hydroxide

VSEPR:

• Molecular Modeling

General Chemistry:

• 1st Lab Tutorial: Chemistry Virtual Labs Tutorial

• Buffers: Buffers and Buffer Capacity

• Calorimetry: Enthalpy of Neutralization

• Calorimetry: Heat Capacity of a Calorimeter

• Chemistry Lab Safety: Personal Safety

• Colligative Properties: Freezing-Point Depression

• Density: Density of a Plastic Cube

• Electrochemistry: Standard Reduction Potentials and Concentration Dependencies

• Equilibrium: Equilibrium Constant (Spectrophotometry)

• Gas Law: Diffusion and Graham's Law

• Gas Law: Ideal Gas Law Constant

• Kinetics: Iodine Clock Reaction

• Lab Skills: Using a Balance

• Lab Skills: Using an Alcohol Thermometer

• Lab Skills: Using a Ruler

• Lab Skills: Using a Graduated Cylinder

• Lab Skills: Using a Pipet and Buret

• Lab Skills: Using Volumetric Glassware for Dilutions

• Reactions: Reactions in Solution

• Reactions: Reactions in Solution (Balancing Equations)

• Solubility: Qualitative Analysis

• Spectrophotometry: Apply Beer's Law to Determine Concentration of Dye

• Stoichiometry: Synthesis of Calcium Carbonate

• Titration: Concentration of Vinegar

• Titration: Identify Weak Acid Using Titration Curve

• Titration: Standardization of Sodium Hydroxide

• VSEPR: Molecular Modeling

GOB/Allied Health:

• Carbohydrates: Testing of Starch

• Carbohydrates: Testing of Sugars

• Enzymes: Effects of Concentration and Temperature

• Osmosis: Movement of Water Across a Semipermeable Membrane

• pH: Antacids

• Proteins: Testing for Amino Acids and Polypeptides

• Scientific Method: Pillbug Preference

• Stoichiometry: Synthesis of Soap and Its Properties

Organic Chemistry:

• Lab Skills: Addition Reaction

• Lab Skills: Column Chromatography

• Lab Skills: Determining Melting Point, Boiling Point and Refractive Index

• Lab Skills: Gas Chromatography

• Lab Skills: Miniscale Extraction and Recrystallization

• Lab Skills: Nucleophilic Substitution Reaction

• Lab Skills: Organic Qualitative Analysis

• Lab Skills: Paper Chromatography

• Lab Skills: Thin-Layer Chromatography

• Lab Skills: Using Simple and Fractional Distillation to Separate Binary Liquid Mixture