About Virtual Labs for Chemistry Lab Skills

Master key experiments, techniques and equipment essential for the chemistry lab. The virtual labs in this package cover everything from chromatography and distillation to spectrophotometry, titration, MALDI, mass spec, Benedict, Biuret, Iodine and Sudan tests, and beyond.

Chemistry Lab Skills Simulations

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Acids and Bases: Acidity and Alkalinity in Everyday Substances

Chemistry

Acids and Bases: Acidity and Alkalinity in Everyday Substances

Join Marie in the Acids and Bases Simulation and explore the nature and concepts of these important chemical compounds. Measure the pH of chemical solutions, and use your acquired knowledge to evaluate mixtures of acids and base.

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Fractional Distillation: Separate a liquid mixture into its fractions

Chemistry

Fractional Distillation: Separate a liquid mixture into its fractions

Learn how to separate a mixture of liquids into its pure components through fractional distillation. Partner with our lab assistant Dr. One to learn how to use a fractionating column and set up a successful distillation!

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Introduction to Food Macromolecules

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Introduction to Food Macromolecules

Can you use your food macromolecule knowledge to convince your friend to change her diet to a healthier one?

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Ion Exchange Chromatography

Chemistry

Ion Exchange Chromatography

Learn about the function and principles of ion exchange chromatography and get hands-on experience by purifying a protein involved in Parkinson’s disease to help study the relation between the protein and the disease.

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Ionic and Covalent Bonds

Chemistry

Ionic and Covalent Bonds

Join your friend on a quest to analyze two mysterious substances he got from an alchemist to cure his migraine and learn how atoms connect.

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Mass Spectrometry: The race of the fastest fragment

Chemistry

Mass Spectrometry: The race of the fastest fragment

Dive into a virtual laboratory to discover the secrets of mass spectrometry. From the structure of the instrument to the interpretation of different spectra, no fragmentation pattern will remain a mystery to you!

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Matter and Phase Changes: Distil ethanol

Chemistry

Matter and Phase Changes: Distil ethanol

Rescue a town from a fuel crisis by using your knowledge about matter and phase changes principles and performing ethanol distillation.

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Melting Point Analysis: Pure or impure?

Chemistry

Melting Point Analysis: Pure or impure?

Learn the techniques and application of melting point analysis and substance purity graphs. Explore the application of the technique in organic syntheses when determining the purity of a solid organic compound.

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Recrystallization: Purify your solid

Chemistry

Recrystallization: Purify your solid

Have you ever wondered how to remove impurities from a solid? How can you be sure you’ve removed them if you do? Step into our recrystallization lab to learn how to purify a solid and check for its purity level!

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Simple Distillation: Recycle waste from biodiesel production

Chemistry

Simple Distillation: Recycle waste from biodiesel production

Use the technique of simple distillation to help your colony on Mars purify the waste generated by the production of biodiesel from algae (water, glycerol, and methanol).

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Size Exclusion Chromatography: Separate monomers from oligomers

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Size Exclusion Chromatography: Separate monomers from oligomers

Use size exclusion chromatography (SEC) to prepare a sample of a protein involved in Parkinson’s disease! Discover how this technique can be beneficial in your lab experiments and create a hypothesis about the elution time of different-sized particles!

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Spectrophotometry: Learn the Beer-Lambert law with absorbance experiments

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Spectrophotometry: Learn the Beer-Lambert law with absorbance experiments

Build your own spectrophotometer to measure the absorbance of a reaction product on Mars!

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Synthesis of Aspirin: How to fight students’ migraines

Chemistry

Synthesis of Aspirin: How to fight students’ migraines

Hone your synthetic skills in organic chemistry by going through a reaction that involves crystallization, filtration, calculation of the yield and a quality analysis using the melting point: the synthesis of aspirin.

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Thin Layer Chromatography: Separate a mixture and monitor a reaction's progress

Chemistry

Thin Layer Chromatography: Separate a mixture and monitor a reaction's progress

Discover the intermolecular interactions involved in Thin Layer Chromatography. Utilize this newfound knowledge to assemble, run, and analyze a TLC experiment to monitor the progress of a reaction.

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Titration: Neutralize an acid lake contamination

Chemistry

Titration: Neutralize an acid lake contamination

Finding the concentration of an acid can be tedious and boring. Join a science expert to learn how to drop the base in style!

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90% of students agreed that Labster provided opportunities for additional lab practice.

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