General Practical Techniques
Standard solutions are your reference points in chemistry - they're solutions with precisely known concentrations. To make one, you'll weigh your sample carefully, dissolve it in deionised water, then transfer everything to a volumetric flask and fill exactly to the meniscus.
Titrations help you find unknown concentrations by comparing them to your standard solution. The key steps involve rinsing your burette and pipette, adding indicator to spot the end point, and repeating until you get concordant results (values within 0.1 cm³ of each other).
Distillation separates liquids with different boiling points. You heat the mixture just above one liquid's boiling point, let the vapour travel through a condenser to cool back into liquid, then collect your separated product.
Essential skill: Always record your measurements to the nearest 0.05 cm³ and repeat experiments for reliability - one reading is never enough!