Agricultural Chemistry (Laboratory)

The course is mandatory the first semester of the Department of Agronomy Technologists of Technological Institute of Epirus. It is the introductory course of the General Chemistry, where the science of chemistry is founded, so the student can then successfully follow the courses of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, nutrition, fertilization, soil science, physiology of plants, physiology of animals, only some of the courses which are based on the chemistry.

Objectives

It is pointless to sit and enumerate what went wrong in middle school and high school and so many of you were afraid of Chemistry. We will learn one by one the secrets and the way of thinking of chemicals, and from there on we will all fit like a riddle! A large Canadian chemist and biochemist, the Keith Laidler, wrote that "the chemistry combines both qualitative and quantitative thinking" to complete Einstein that "the chemistry is difficult, especially for chemists!" The first meant that not everything needs to do accurate calculations in chemistry, but you must know when and when not need to make such calculations. The second, that in his time chemists were finding it very difficult to understand many concepts of individual, especially physics. How will we get out from this mess? Very simply by solving exercises. Beyond the questions and exercises in the booklet I gave you, the lecture will be explained, and exercises in laboratory sites are solved. The understanding of matter arises effortlessly from the solution of the exercises. At the end of each week all the relevant exercises in each chapter are covered in theory, in order to gain confidence and intuition. After that, you can solve any exercise!

Prerequisites

The course is an introduction to Chemistry. However basic knowledge of mathematical operations, reading formulas and computer use are necessary.

Syllabus

The course of the laboratory of agricultural chemistry introduces students to the laboratory. Therefore apart from learning the theory and preparing experimental exercises, the course content focuses on the following: 1. Agrochemical Laboratory Regulations 2. Glassware agricultural chemistry laboratory 3. Laboratory chemistry instruments 4. Preparation of solutions 5. Imaging and visualization of molecules 6. Determination of solutions Ph 7. Neutralization titrations 8. Methods of separation 9. Spectrophotometry, Lambert-Beer Law 10. Inorganic qualitative analysis 11. Complexometric titrations