Chemistry 4/5 for the International Student

Work on the Web 

Unit 1

Early metals
http://neon.mems.cmu.edu/cramb/Processing/history.html

John Newlands
http://www.rsc.org/education/teachers/learnnet/periodictable/pre16/develop/newlands.htm

http://www.tutorvista.com/content/science/science-ii/periodic-classification-elements/newlands-octaves.php

Periodic Table
http://www.rsc.org/chemsoc/visualelements/pages/pertable_j.htm

http://www.webelements.com/

Airships
http://www.airships.net/us-navy-rigid-airships/uss-los-angeles

Unit 2

Sapphires
http://www.gemstone.org/index.html

Precipitation
http://www.launc.tased.edu.au/online/sciences/PhysSci/pschem/soln/Solutio1.htm

Flame tests (videos)
http://www.kentchemistry.com/moviesfiles/Units/AtomicStructure/flametestformetals.htm

Flame tests (theory)
http://www.chemicalconnection.org.uk/chemistry/topics/view.php?topic=3&headingno=5&lang=en

Unit 3

Phosphorus
http://www.rsc.org/chemsoc/visualelements/pages/phosphorus.html

Ice crystals
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/photo2/photo2.htm

Isomers
http://www.creative-chemistry.org.uk/molecules/optical.htm

PERC
http://www.coalitionforcleanair.org/news-fact-sheets-Hung-Out-to-Dry-Cleaning-Up-Dry-Cleaning.html

http://environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/environmental/200603percholorethylene.html

http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4131

Unit 4

World records
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_records

chromogenic smart materials
Introduction to chromogenics

Nitinol®
http://www.nitinol.com/nitinol-university/university-resources/

Richard Feynman
http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html

Nano-images
http://www.nanotech-now.com/Art_Gallery/Weiss-Group.htm

Self-cleaning glass
http://www.ncpm247.com/self-cleaning-glass.php

Spider silk fibres
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3522

Unit 5

Rates of reaction
http://www.s-cool.co.uk/gcse/chemistry/rates-of-reaction.html

http://www.docbrown.info/page03/3_31rates.htm#1.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/add_aqa/chemreac/ratesrev1.shtml

Dust explosions
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5857379787822215553#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAdElO1FCSM&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_erxHvs_Ac

Nitrogen dioxide reaction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVzrijJdl4c&hl=es

Equilibrium
http://www.capital.net/com/vcl/equil/8back.htm

Haber process
http://www.chemguide.co.uk/physical/equilibria/haber.html#top

Unit 6

Copper oxide
Reduction of Copper Oxide by Hydrogen

http://media.rsc.org/videoclips/demos/Reductioncopperoxide.wmv

http://dwb4.unl.edu/Chemistry/redoxlp/a09.html

displacement reactions
http://www.gcsescience.com/r5-metal-displacement-reactions.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/add_ocr/periodic_table/group7rev3.shtml

thermite
http://www.rsc.org/education/teachers/learnnet/videoclips.htm

http://www.practicalchemistry.org/experiments/enhancement/spectacular-demonstrations/the-thermite-reaction,172,EX.html

Unit 7

Cracking
http://resources.schoolscience.co.uk/Exxonmobil/infobank/4/flash/cracking.htm

http://science.howstuffworks.com/oil-refining5.htm

http://www.chemguide.co.uk/organicprops/alkanes/cracking.html

Unsaturation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C_6ax2TsV8&feature=player_embedded#t=31

Incineration of plastics
http://www.plasticsindustry.org/AboutPlastics/content.cfm?ItemNumber=793&navItemNumber=1124

Nylon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S8YnzgUsMo

Recycling codes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resin_identification_code

http://www.azom.com/Details.asp?ArticleID=4425

Unit 8

Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry
http://www.epa.gov/greenchemistry/pubs/principles.html

Green chemistry initiatives
http://www.epa.gov/greenchemistry/

ACS Green Chemistry Institute 

http://www.greenchemistry.ca/

http://www.chemsoc.org/networks/gcn/

New medicines
http://www.ideas.astrazeneca.com/about-us/new-medicine-discovery?itemId=4241996&nav=yes

Unit 9

Heat and temperature
http://www.scilinks.org

Calorimeter
http://www.chm.davidson.edu/vce/Calorimetry

Hess’s Law
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chemlab/info/resources/deltah/deltah.html