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ChemLab for Windows

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Key Details of ChemLab

  • Simulate a chemistry lab and interact with animated lab equipment.
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Editors’ Review

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With this virtual laboratory, you can run experiments without fear of chemical burns or glass breakage. ChemLab comes with seven preloaded experiments, as well as a free-form mode. The Introduction and Procedure tabs in the left-hand window tell you what the experiment proves and how to perform it.

The Observations tab lets you record your data. The interface provides buttons for the most common pieces of equipment and chemicals, but we preferred using the right-click context menu. You can save your work as LAB files to reopen later. Printing will print the Observations tab and the main experiment window. The Lab wizard lets you build your own experiments by setting the chemicals, reactions, and expected outcomes. It takes a lot of chemistry knowledge to build your own experiment, and we had to refer to the help file to figure out how to perform certain actions during the preloaded experiments.

The accuracy of reactions makes ChemLab educational for high school students, but the interface and ability to go off-book make it fun.

What’s new in version 2.5.1

Version 2.5.1:
  • Added Paper Chromatography lab experiment
  • Updated Periodic Table with newest elements
  • Updates and corrections to lab simulations
  • Support Windows 7
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GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
2.5.1
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows 98
  • Windows ME
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows XP
  • Windows NT
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 7
Additional Requirements
None
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Developer’s Description

By Model Science Software
Simulate a chemistry lab and interact with animated lab equipment.
Whether your challenge is to introduce new computer technology to your curriculum, or bring the lab experience to on-line students or a need for an alternative to dangerous, expensive or environmentally hazardous labs, then Model ChemLab is the classroom proven solution for you.Model ChemLab originated from academic work in computer simulation and software design at McMaster University. It has continued to be developed with extensive input from educators interested in the possible application of computer simulations for classroom and distance learning.

Model ChemLab is a unique product incorporating both an interactive simulation and a lab notebook workspace with separate areas for theory, procedures and student observations. Commonly used lab equipment and procedures are used to simulate the steps involved in performing an experiment. Users step-through the actual lab procedure while interacting with animated equipment in a way that is similar to the real lab experience.ChemLab comes with a range of pre-designed lab experiments for general chemistry at the high school and college level. Users can expand upon the original lab set using ChemLab's LabWizard development tools, thus allowing for curriculum specific lab simulation development by educators. These user designed simulations combine both text based instructions and the simulation into a single distributable file.

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