Slide Preview for EdExcel Unit C1 - Chemistry in Our World

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Elements and compounds, balancing equations, hazard signs, the Earth's atmosphere, evolution of the atmosphere, carbon dioxide content, rocks, sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic rocks, how they are formed and examples, conservation of mass in reactions, calcium carbonate, limestone and its uses, thermal decomposition of carbonates, neutralisation reactions, stomach acid, making salts, reactions of acids with metal carbonates and metal oxides, electrolysis of hydrochloric acid and seawater, testing for hydrogen and chlorine, uses of chlorine, electrolysis of water, testing for oxygen, extracting metals, uses of copper, aluminium and titanium, using impurities to strengthen iron, alloys, making steel stronger, smart alloys, gold alloys, recycling, rust and how to prevent it, redox reactions, reduction and oxidation, fuels, crude oil, fractional distillation, hydrocarbons in crude oil, burning hydrocarbons, testing for carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, incomplete combustion, burning fossil fuels, global warming, the greenhouse effect, reducing pollution, using ethanol as a biofuel, hydrogen fuel cells, energy from fuels, alkanes, alkenes, drawing alkanes and alkenes, testing for alkenes using bromine water, cracking, composition of crude oil, monomers and polymers, uses of addition polymers, disposal of plastics, biodegradable plastics.