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.