Courses Handbook 2008 - [ Archived ]

305694 (v.1) WASM Metallurgical Chemistry 252


Area: WASM Minerals Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy Teaching Area
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1.5 Hours Weekly
Practical: 1 x 1.5 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 11555 (v.2) WASM Thermofluids 251 or any previous version
AND
303095 (v.1) WASM Chemistry 151 or any previous version
Syllabus: Physical chemistry - ionic equilibria, hydrolysis of salts, buffers, polyprotic acids and titration curves. Phase equilibria and phase diagrams. Lewis structures, hybridisation, resonance and valence shell electronic pair repulsion theory. Solutions, ideal, non-ideal and Raoult's Law. Chemistry of block elements, electronic structure of transition metals, properties and introduction to coordination chemistry. Analytical methods, electro analytical methods, spectrophotometry, emission and adsorption spectroscopy.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 010500 Chemical Sciences (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2008 Kalgoorlie Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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