Chem Basics

Chem BasicsA UMD Chemistry Library is used for the scientific work that is undertaken by students in a chemical engineering course. It is also the place where students can keep notes and records of their work on laboratory experiments.All materials used in a chemistry course are collected from various sources, including books, research papers, journals, and the school library. Students take up an inventory of the material required in a given class and classify them according to their uses and requirements. Materials are assigned to students who are registered in a course on a daily basis. On completion of each section of a class, students receive a final class schedule which lists down all materials required for the assignment.However, many students find that they have too much of the material to use in the course materials. In this case, they send their materials to the Chemistry Library to be sorted and separated into sections. Once a section is ready, it is divided into compartmen ts or bin boxes, so that the materials can be stored, so that they do not get mixed up.It is important to check the contents of each compartment to make sure that there are no expired or damaged bin boxes or any other damaged materials inside. Disposable folders are used to label the contents of each bin box. Once the compartment is empty, the material is safely removed and the student can then properly store the materials in their own storage.There are three main categories of materials that are kept in the UMD Chemistry Library: logbooks, laboratory and practice books, and reference materials. Labbooks contains all the materials required in a given lab session. Laboratory books contain the lab notes for every lab session that has been taken.References contain all the readings for the subject and topics discussed in the text. Students may take notes during their lab sessions in reference books or through study guides.The other materials used in a Chemical Engineering course at UMD include laboratory manual and laboratory instructions, equations, manipulatives, diluents, protoparticles, carbon, molecular apparatus, catalyst, thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, solid state reactions, and synthetic procedures. In addition, the UMD Chemistry Library includes several journals published by the College of Engineering, chemistry e-mail groups, the UMD web chemistry, and more.The Materials from the UMD Chemistry Library can be used in any class that is carried out by students at UMD. Materials can be placed in any of the compartments listed above to ensure that the correct materials are in reach when the students are working.