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What
is chemistry?
- definition,
- chemicals around your home, garage.
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Doing
experiments
-Common equipment and procedures;
- safety.
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History
of Chemistry
- alchemists, wizards and witches
- potions and remedies;
- discovering chemicals;
- Ancient uses of chemicals.
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How
do chemists work?
- career;
- experiments
- equipment
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Properties
of chemicals
- Melting & boiling points,
- Colour, texture, density, state;
- heat or electricity conductivity etc;
- chemical reactions;
- Physical Vs Chemical changes.
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Metals
- Special properties of metals: conduct electricity and heat,
malleable, ductile, high melting & boiling points, lustre,
etc;
- uses of metals.
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The creation of chemicals
- Big Bang Theory
- Start of the universe;
- reactions within the Earth's core or the Sun.
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"Chemistry"
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Chemicals
found in Earrth
- types of chemicals and their abundance.
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Radioactivity
- Uranium, nuclear power and weapons
- Energy for our future.
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Structure
of matter
- solids, liquids & gases;
-atoms and chemical reactions.
- change of state;
- look at compounds.
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Separating
mixtures
- filtering & distilling;;
- magnets;
- chromotography (separating inks).
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Chemical
Reactions
- Types of chemical reactions;
- Why they happen;
- Identifying chemicals;
- Reactions in our bodies;
- Making compounds;
- Reactions with light and heat;
- formulae for common chemicals.
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Periodic
Table
- Organising chemical elements by properties.
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Life
Chemistry
- Chemicals in our body;
- Digestion & metabolism;
- photosynthesis in plants;
- DNA.
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Catalysts
- Speeding up chemical reactions;
- biological enzymes.
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Acids
and Bases
- what are acids and bases?
- safety with chemicals;
- types of reactions.
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Fossil
fuels
- Energy for our transport;
- other forms of energy?
- how does a car work?
- useful organic compounds (plastics, petrol,
crude oil, margarine, soap etc);
- how does soap work?
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