Prospective Students - Priestley Lab Virtual Tour

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Welcome to the Joseph Priestley Laboratory! This is where you will do all of your synthetic chemistry as well as analytical components, in a lab designed to give you the opportunity to perform practical work in an industry-standard environment. Click on an arrow to explore more!

Welcome to the Joseph Priestley Laboratory! This is where you will do all of your synthetic chemistry as well as analytical components, in a lab designed to give you the opportunity to perform practical work in an industry-standard environment.

At the end of the corridor leading away from Chaston Chapman Lounge is a lift - take this lift up to the 2nd floor and you will come out in the central area of Priestley Lab!

How to find Priestley Lab

This is what the main entrance to the chemistry building looks like from Woodhouse Lane, just along from the Parkinson Steps

(Image Credit: Google Maps, 2023)

Locate Chaston Chapman Lounge - this is a communal space students may use for general studying, and has its own hot drinks machine, and vending machine for snacks You can find the lounge by following the signposting from the main entrance This is an ideal space to wind down after lab classes, meet classmates before lectures, or somewhere to take a lunch break!

How to find Priestley Lab

Fume CupboardPriestley lab has a total of 64 fume cupboards. Students are assigned a fume cupboard, shared with another student, at the start of the academic year where they will do all their practical work.

HOMEPAGE

ANALYTICAL TOOLS

Student Workbays Priestley lab can hold a maximum capacity of 120 students at one time! Students are allocated a fume cupboard to do all their practical work in, as well as benchtop space, and their own drawer of glassware Click on an icon to find out more!

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Analytical Tools Priestley lab is equipped with several analytcial tools, including two magnetic susceptibility balances, a UV-Vis Spectrophotometer, and three Infrared Spectroscopy Meters Click on each piece of equipment for more information!

STORES

Rotavap and Chiller

Student Glassware Drawers Students in 2nd and 3rd Year are assigned their own set of drawers, complete with all the glassware they will need for their experiements for the year. It is the students responsibility to keep their drawers tidy and glassware clean to ensure their reactions have no impurities!

EAST WING

WEST WING

Priestley Laboratory Stores This is where you will find the technical team! Our technicians are on hand throughout the day to assist with the smooth running of the lab class, and to provide an insight into the workings of the specialist analytical equipment students will use.

Who's who? The lab coats worn in Priestley lab are colour-coded for health and safety reasons. Each student recieves their own white lab coat at the start of the year, along with their own name badge to wear on the front of their lab coat.

STORES

Analytical Tools Priestley lab is equipped with several analytcial tools, including Infrared Spectroscopy Meters, a light miscroscope, and a bunsen burner for making glass tools for further sample analysis Click on each piece of equipment for more information!

GAS CHROMATOGRAPH

Priestley Lab has its own GC, a sophisticated analytical instrument used to separate and identify the components of a submitted sample.

Gas Chromatography

ANALYTICAL TOOLS

EAST WING

Priestley Lab is split into two wings - East and West - centering on the Technicians stores, with each wing a mirror image of the other Click on an arrow to explore more!

Joseph Priestley Laboratory

ANALYTICAL TOOLS

STUDENT WORKBAYS