Notes on the Text

1. to be alike — быть подобным, похожим

2. a great number of — много, большое количество

3. besides — кроме, помимо

4. in good order — в хорошем состоянии, в хорошем порядке

5. in addition to — кроме, помимо, в дополнение к

TEXT. LABORATORY

All the laboratories of inorganic chemistry are almost alike. These are large rooms where both students and research-work­ers carry out their experimental work. Modern laboratories of inorganic as well as organic and analytical chemistry are provided with gas and running water. Every laboratory is to be provided with a ventilating hood for the escape of both harmful and unpleasant vapours and odours. Every laboratory has to be lit up very well.

There are many laboratory benches with a great number of drawers in every laboratory. Different apparatus devices as well as materials are to be kept in them. Besides we can see .'many shelves and cases for containers with chemicals.

On every laboratory bench one can see test-tubes, flasks, beakers, funnels, evaporating dishes, weighing bottles. All this glassware should be kept in good order.

Various burners serve for producing flames. Bunsen burner is to be mentioned among them.

Different crucibles are to be employed when heating of solution and igniting of materials are to be carried out. Cru­cibles are usually made of quartz, porcelain and iron. In addi-

tion to these crucibles, there are platinum crucibles in some laboratories, but they are used very seldom.

Every laboratory should be equipped with different kinds of apparatus. Everything in the laboratory is to have its definite place.

Experiments in the Laboratory

Fig. 1. Preparation of hydrogen chlo­ride.

Many experiments can be carried out in the laboratory of inorganic chemistry. Thus, if we want to obtain hydrogen chlo­ride (HC1), which is often referred to as a hydrochloric acid gas, it is necessary to pour some sulphuric acid through a tube over the crystals of sodium chloride, in a flask. The flask is to be heated. On warm­ing the flask, the hydrogen chloride is expelled as a colourless gas with a suffo­cating odour. It produces heavy clouds of white fumes when it cornes in contact with the moist air of the room.

Fig. 2. Laboratory apparatus for th& preparation of nitric acid.

It is soluble and it cannot be collected over water as are oxygen and hydrogen. It is much heavier than the air and may be passed through a glass tube to the bottom of a bottle (see Fig. 1). If we dissolve some of the gas in water, the solution has a sour taste, reddens blue litmus, reacts with zinc, etc.: it is hydrochloric acid. When all the sodium chloride originally present in the flask has been transformed, the reaction is com­plete. The flask then contains a salt called sodium acid sul­phate (NaHSOJ together with unchanged excess of sulphuric acid.

Nitric acid may be pre­pared by the reaction of con­centrated sulphuric acid with sodium nitrate.

In the laboratory meth­od, a mixture of sodium nitrate and concentrated sulphuric acid is heated in a glass retort (see Fig. 2). Nitric acid is boiled out of

the mixture and is condensed:

Remember the following words pnd word combinations:

almost

to be alike ^

to escape

harmful

vapour

odour

laboratory bench

to keep

besides

shelf (ves)

container

chemical

test-tube

Se, ’

иУ

funnel ‘ evaporating dish weighing bottle glassware order burner to serve flame

to mention . ц

crucible

to employ

to ignite

in addition to

seldom

to pour

to warm to expel colourless • . fume

■moist * to collect to pass ^

bottom sour taste

to transform to uncharge excess u C to boil *

NaNO, + H₃S0₄ = HN0₃ + NaHSO*

Ex. 11. Answer the following questions:

1. What do we call a laboratory? 2. In what laboratories can the students carry out their experiments? 3. What is every laboratory provided with? 4. Why is every laboratory provided with a ventilating hood? 5. What can you see on the shelves?

6. What glassware is there on every laboratory bench?

7. What are burners used for? 8. What are crucibles used for? 9. What are crucibles made of? 10. What is it necessary to do if we want to obtain hydrogen chloride? (describe the experiment) 11. How can nitric acid be prepared in the la­boratory?

Ex. 12. Answer the following questions according to the model. (Work in pairs.)

Model: May I come into the laboratory?

Yes, you may. No, you can’t.

1. May he look through these documents? 2. May I take this test-tube? 3. May we use this glassware? 4. May she heat this substance?

1. What are weighing bottles used for?

2. What is Bunsen burner used for?

1. for the measurement of quantities of liquids

2. for igniting materials

Ex. 13. Find the answers in the right column:

3. for heating substances

4. 

   3. What is evaporating dish made of?

   4. What- is the beaker used for?

   5. What are crucibles used for?

   6. What is a water-bath used for?

   from glass or porcelain

5. for protecting material from the air, while the material is being weighed

6. for slow heating or evap­orating the material

Ex. 14. Find the pairs of synonyms and remember them:

alike, nearly, different, similar, almost, various, employ, obtain, use, get.

Ex. 15. Find the pairs of antonyms and remember them:

large, inorganic, cool, small, organic, harmful, pleasant, often, useful, unpleasant, seldom, warm, heavy, tasteful, in­definite, light, testless, definite.

Ex. 16. Translate the following sentences paying attention to the mean­ings of the verb “to have”:

1. The laboratory of general chemistry has many benches with a number of drawers. 2. A first-year student has to carry out a number of experiments in the laboratory of general chemistry. 3. This term the students have carried out a number of experiments. 4. These substances have very low solubility. 5. They have to find out the solubility of this substance. 6. They have found the solubility of this substance and now can investigate its properties better.,7. This metal has found wide application both in industry and in agricul­ture. _x8. They have to raise the temperature greatly as the mixture doesn’t boil. 9. Hydrogen peroxide has been heated.

10. Hydrogen peroxide has a lower vapour pressure than water.

11. The evaporation has to be carried out in the waterbath.

12. This crucible has been used for heating some solutions. 13. This solution has an unpleasant odour, he has to open the window. 14. A rombic sulphur has to be kept at a tempera­ture of 96°C. 15. It is necessary to purify water, you will have to pass it through porous paper. 16. It has to be noted that chlorine dioxide reacts with water and yields a mixture of chlorous and chloric acid. 17. It has been already noted that hydrogen is found in the free state only in minute quantities.

Ex. 17. Translate the following sentences paying attention to the mean, ings of the verb “to be”:

1. This substance is colourless and odourless. 2. Liquids which are not appreciably soluble in each other are called immiscible liquids. 3. Many new research institutes are being built in our country. 4. They are discussing a very important problem dealing with the development of new branches of chemistry. 5. The volume of an object increases when it is heated. 6. There is a large new laboratory in our Institute. 7. .This experiment is to be carried out again, the results are wrong_v8. The meeting of our Chemical Society is to take place tomorrow at 5 o’clock. 9. He is to graduate from the Chemico- Technological Institute in 1988. 10. This solution was to be heated in a porcelain crucible. 11. The solution was heated and evaporated. 12. The glassware is to be washed very thorough­ly when the experiment is over.

Ex. 18. Find the verbs in the following list of words and translate them into Russian:

contain, various, vary, very, employ, vaporize, solution, solve, different, differ.

Ex. 19. Complete the sentences according to the model:

Model: This year he must work very hard, but a year ago he didn’t have to.

1. Now I must help her but last year I ... 2. This term the students must attend the lectures in the evening but last term they ... 3. We must carry out a number of experiments but a year ago we . . .

Ex. 20. Find the sentences in which “to be” is a modal verb:

1. The laboratory was lit up very well. 2. This substance is to be heated to a high temperature. 3. In this experiment we were to find out all the properties of this substance. 4. This example was referred to by our teacher. 5. Hot water is to be poured in a flask. 6. If dry chlorine gas is passed into the liquid trichloride in a cooled container, the pentachloride is formed. 7. Silver is not attacked by oxygen under ordinary conditions. 8. The use of this gas is to be omitted as it is very harmful. 9. If the boiling point of the solution is to be established, you should carry out this experiment.' 10. Many ores which are to be refined often contain considerable^uanti- ties of impurities. 11. He is working at a very important experiment, it is to help our researchers to finish their work. T2, The vapor pressure of this unstable phase is greater than that of the stable phase at the same temperature.

Ex. 21. Translate the following sentences, mind the verbs:

* 1. The energy of the atomic bomb comes from within atoms to learn how this is possible, we shall have to analyse the con cept of energy carefully. 2. Each molecule has a microscoph impact force. 3. It has been mentioned that hydrogen is pre pared in large quantities because of its many industrial uses

3. The ability of water to dissolve a wide variety of substance! has to be noted. 5. Attention has to be directed to the facl that iodine is more soluble in aqueous solutions of potassiun iodide than it is in pure water. 6. He has been studying this subject for many years. The results of his investigation hav< to be discussed. 7. In addition to his experimental worl< he had to work at the plant. 8. This gas has to bepassec through a glass tube at a low temperature. 9. Have you gol new devices in your laboratory?

Ex. 22. Find the English equivalent of the following Russian sentence:

Все приборы и посуда должны быть в полном порядке в лаборатории.

1. In the laboratory all the devices and glassware have been kept in good order.

2. All the devices and glassware were kept in good order in the laboratory.

3. In the laboratory the devices and glassware have its definite place.

4. All the devices and glassware are to be kept in good order in the laboratory.

5. A good order should be kept in the laboratory.

Ex. 23. Fill in the blanks with the words given below:

glassware, reaction, drawers, as well as, crucibles, chemi­cals, to pour.

1. In the laboratory the students carry out experiments... research work. 2. On the laboratory benches we can see much . . . 3. A laboratory bench has a number of ... 4. ... are used for heating solutions. 5. Cases are used for containing . . . 6. When we obtain hydrogen chloride we . . . some sul­phuric acid in a flask. 7. Nitric acid may be obtained by the . . . of concentrated sulphuric acid with sodium nitrate.

Ex. 24. Choose the Russian equivalents from the right column:

мензурка

безвкусный

превращать

производить

the escape of harmful vapours to be lit up well as well as

both solutions both liquids and gases

бесцветный

пробирка

пары

быть хорошо освещенным так же как и оба раствора

как жидкости, так и газы улетучивание вредных паров

fumes beaker test-tube colourless tasteless to transform to prpduce

Ex/^/Describe the following experiment and answer the questions Vy that follow:

Laboratory Preparation of Hydrogen