Basic Analytical Instrumentation Skills

Overview

Love watching CSI? Fancy yourself a Crime Scene Investigator? You can be an analytical sleuth - in Chemistry! Here is your chance to learn the essential skills of a chemist and carry out investigative work on various chemical products (ranging from the water you drink to the medicine you take) through analytical and instrumentation techniques. Learn how to use these techniques to separate the active ingredients in say, an analgesic (pain killer) medication. You can also use such techniques to visualise colourless compounds and to study the structure of molecules easily! Whatever you have observed about a product before, you can now investigate it through these techniques - just like the chemists and researchers in their research labs! What's more, you'll get to interpret and present your data to your classmates too!