Illustrated guide to home chemistry experiments : all lab, no lecture Robert Bruce Thompson.

"Includes complete illustrated guide to setting up your home laboratory, equipment lists and instructions, comprehensive charts and photographs, dozens of experiments you can try at home"--Cover.

Includes index.

Introduction -- Laboratory safety -- Equipping a home chemistry lab -- Chemicals for the home chemistry lab -- Mastering laboratory skills -- Laboratory : Separating mixtures -- Solubility and solutions -- Colligative properties of solutions -- Introduction to chemical reactions and stoichiometry -- Reduction-oxidation (Redox) reactions -- Acid-base chemistry -- Chemical kinetics -- Chemical equilibrium and Le Chateller's principle -- Gas chemistry -- Thermochemistry and calorimetry -- electrochemistry -- Photochemistry -- Colloids and suspensions -- Qualitative analysis --Synthesis of useful compounds -- Forensic chemistry.