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)

Funding Cluster:

08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying

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
2007	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