Chemical Fundamentals

You need to be able to:

• Give correct names and symbols for common substances
• Construct word and balanced symbol equations
• Describe how atoms join (simply)

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C1a Making Crude Oil Useful

You need to be able to:

• Describe the composition of crude oil
• Explain how the fractional distillation of crude oil works
• Explain the cracking of fractions

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2. Lots of notes on crude oil and making it useful
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4. GCSE Notes from Doc Brown
5. Videos and simulations on crude oil and its products
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7. Cracking crude oil notes

C1b Using Carbon Fuels

You need to be able to:

• Evaluate fuels for a particular purpose
• Explain the complete combustion of hydrocarbon fuels
• Explain the incomplete combustion of hydrocarbon fuels

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C1c Clean Air

You need to be able to:

• Describe the composition and formation of today's atmosphere
• Explain why it is important to control atmospheric pollution
• Describe how a catalytic converter works

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4. Atmospheric evolution from NASA
6. BBC Bitesize notes 1 and 2
7. The story of the catalytic converter by BASF
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C1d Making Polymers

You need to be able to:

• Describe saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons
• Explain how to make an addition polymer

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2. Alkanes and alkenes flashcards
3. Alkenes and alkenes notes
4. Question on alkane and alkene
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6. Alkane, alkene and alkyne (triple bond) quiz - alkenes not on the exam!
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8. Monomer to polymer interactive model
9. What, you guys again?!
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C1e Designer Polymers

You need to be able to:

• Explain links between polymer properties and uses
• Explain properties of Gore-Tex(R) and nylon
• Explain issues with the use of polymers

1. Designer polymers notes from the BBC (look at all 4 pages)
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3. Examples of designer polymers and issues with polymers
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C1f Food

You need to be able to

• Explain what cooking does to foods and why this makes them easier to digest
• Explain the action of emulsifiers
• Construct balanced equations showing how baking powder (sodium hydrogen carbonate) works, and how you can test for the gas made

1. Chemistry of cooking explanations
2. Kitchen Science - eggs
3. Flash emulsifier simulation
4. Emulsifiers notes from the BBC
5. Baking powder chemistry from the BBC
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