Extra Chemistry Just For Fun!
Interested students who wish to read and learn a bit more about chemistry and its applications can collect a comprehension exercise from numbered boxes in the department. Completed answers are on the inside of the lids!
The topics are as follows:
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BOX
|
EXERCISE
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CHEMISTRY
TOPIC
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1
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Hindenburg
revisited
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Energetics
|
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2
|
Fire
detectors
|
Radioactivity
|
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3
|
Gut
contents, male suicide
|
Mass
spectroscopy
|
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4
|
Quantum
theory and cancer
|
Spectra
|
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5
|
Bitter-sweet
|
Molecular
shapes
|
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6
|
Anaesthetics
|
Forces
between molecules
|
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7
|
Sand
castles and mud huts
|
Forces
between molecules
|
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8
|
Moles
and things
|
Calculations
|
|
9
|
Import-export
|
Calculations
|
|
10
|
Taking
drugs
|
Rates
of reaction
|
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11
|
In
the balance
|
Equilibrium
|
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12
|
Tooth
decay
|
pH
and acidity theory
|
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13
|
Blood,
sweat and seas
|
Group
1
|
|
14
|
Five
percent of us
|
Aluminium
chemistry
|
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15
|
Rocket
fuels
|
Nitrogen
compounds and energetics
|
|
16
|
Most
dangerous, most vital
|
Fluorine
chemistry
|
|
17
|
Life's
little ironies
|
Iron
chemistry
|
|
18
|
Ozone
problems
|
Free
radical chemistry
|
|
19
|
Fatty
foods
|
Alkene
chemistry
|
|
20
|
Cholesterol,
clots and corpses
|
Alkene
chemistry
|
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Interested Student | Boxes 1 - 20 |
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Chemist | Boxes 1 - 20 |
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Medic | Boxes 3, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 20 |
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Pharmacist | Boxes 3, 6, 11, 12 |
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Vet | Boxes 3, 6, 11, 12 |
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Biologist | Boxes 5, 11, 13, 17, 19, 20 |
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Dentist | Boxes 3, 6, 11, 12 |
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Physicist | Boxes 2, 4, 15, 18 |
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Geologist | Box 7 |
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