This Edition of “A COMPREHENSIVE MANUAL FOR PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY” has evolved as a result of extensive and vital feedback from stakeholders. The guiding principle throughout the conception, writing and illustrating of this manual has been to create a concrete “Live at- the bench” Teaching / Learning text with thorough explanations that foresee the learner is confusion before it arises. This drive has now led to this edition which bears the following: - Innovative topic treatments that appear in each chapter. Every paragraph in every topic and sub-topic was examined for clarity and directness. - A cleaner and clear open page lay-out, which improves readability. - All the numerical worked examples have been handled applying “First Principles” point of logical thinking, attractively set off to delineate them clearly. - Standard and challenging typical examination questions dubbed “Asses your understanding” have been added to each end-of-subtopic problem set. - The much needed “Live at-the bench” practical experiments (hands-on activities)covering a wide range of learner’s needs in volumetric analysis, qualitative analysis, thermochemistry, chemical kinetics and solubility have been added enticing him/her to thinking logically. - The sections of hands-on activities are designed to simulate an interchange between the learner and the teacher as they both think through to the solution. Each practical experiment begins explicitly with the known, incorporating data collected as per the problem statement and points toward the unknown. In addition to the feature highlights above, the coverage of the book is thorough, systematic and conforms with the O Level syllabus for Chemistry. Finally, I am hopeful and confident that, the “hands-on” activities in this manual will give the learner enough “live-at the bench” practical exposure, enabling him/her to stand firm in handling Chemistry practicals in any situation as may be required from time to time. I hope you will enjoy using this manual and improve you mastery and confidence over Chemistry practicals.