Laboratory Course in Electrochemistry

Laboratory Course in Electrochemistry – is a laboratory manual which was published in 1914 and written by Oliver Patterson Watts. He was a professor of applied electrochemistry and chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. This laboratory manual was developed primarily for use in authoring classes at the University of Wisconsin and includes notes originally prepared by C.F. Burgess, former head of the University's Department of Chemical Engineering, as well as many new experiments and many additional materials. This guide may also prove to be a useful reference for courses in applied electrochemistry other than Wisconsin. The experiments in this guide have been chosen to illustrate the general principles underlying the most important applications of electrochemistry. No attempt has been made to adapt commercial processes to laboratory conditions, although several experiments of this nature have been included in which the device is readily amenable to laboratory use. The electric furnace and batteries are excluded, since they are studied in author's classes as separate courses. Electrolytic analysis has been developed to such an extent that now it is a separate study and cannot be adequately described in a book on electrochemistry as a whole. Although a few simple experiments are given, a student wishing to study this branch of electrochemistry can refer to the well-known texts of Classen and Smith.