Online Courses Handbook 2003

305694 (v.1) WASM Metallurgical Chemistry 252

Area:	WASM Minerals Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy Teaching Area
Contact Hours:	5.0
Credits:	25.0
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
Physical Chemistry - Ionic equilibria, Hydrolysis of salts, buffers, polyprotic acids, titration curves. Phase equilibria and phase diagrams. Lewis structures, hybridisation and resonance, valence shell electronic pair repulsion (VSEPR) theory. Solutions, Ideal and non ideal, Raoult's Law. Chemical kinetics, reaction rates, rate equations and order of reactions, effect of temperature, catalysis. Chemistry of d block elements, electronic structure of transition metals and properties, introduction to coordination chemistry. Analytical methods, electroanalytical methods, spectrophotometry, emission and adsorption spectroscopy.