Year 12

"The practice of Chemical Thermodynamics is simply a matter of finding the proper wrench to pound on the right screw."


 


1 Introduction to Analytical Chem

http://www.ils-limited.co.uk/ or http://www.bheenv.com/chemhigh.htm Are the addresses of two chemical analysis companies.

Nutrition tables http://www.olen.com/food/ or http://www.olen.com/food/book.html

searchable database for food at: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl

Daves Molecular Mass Determiner is located at:

http://www.sci.ouc.bc.ca/chem/programmes/mm-find2.htm?
 
 

2 Solutions

http://winetitles.com.au/awri/index.html Australian Wine Institute

http://www.environment.gov.au/epg/pubs/lead_survey.html National survey of blood lead in Australian children

http://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/soe/97/ch3/7_1.htm#ch3.htm.907 why use conductivity to determine salinity?
 
 

3 Gases

the air pollution index for the past 24 hrs is contained at http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/aq/bulletin_t.asp

This explains how the index is determined with some stoich calculations http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/aq/aqindex.htm

http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/aq/info/default.htm look under the heading "Air Quality Monitoring" to see the methods for determining lead and gas emissions

http://www.dar.csiro.au/info/airwatch/particle.htm Report on gravametric analysis of airborne soot
 
 

4 Chromatography

http://www.ausport.gov.au/asda/fs_trend.html Gives lots of data on sports and what was detected

http://hplc.chem.shu.edu/BOOK/xfram.html Online textbook of liquid chromatography

http://yip5.chem.wfu.edu/yip/exercise/TLCex1.html online tlc calculator

http://chem.external.hp.com/cag/feature/05-99/feature.html Using hplc to determine flying accidents

http://chem.external.hp.com/cag/feature/04-99/feature.html Using GC to detect pestiside residues
 
 

5 Spectroscopy

Water Quality - Yarra Water http://www.yvw.com.au/pdf/waterqualreport_1.pdf

http://chem.external.hp.com/cag/feature/08-99/feature.html spectroscopy used to determine the chemical composition of the sword of the famous medieval knight El Cid?

http://www.galab.com/analytik/WBL/higtox.htm#anameth outlines the use of AAS coupled with GC to analyse for toxic mercury compounds being produced from contaminated lead sites.
 
 

6 Rates of Reaction

Rates tutorial - very comprehensive but simple http://www.ucdsb.on.ca/tiss/stretton/chem2/ratex.htm

Powerpoint presentation - bit complex http://gibbs.lgc.peachnet.edu/chm102/Rates/index.htm

http://www.scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/wv/7/0007-005-rea-t-cat.html Good summary of rates

http://www.albright-wilson.com/products/phosphates/baking.html applications of rates with phosphates for baking (saved as phosphates - baking)
 
 

7 General Equilibruim

http://stokes.lance.colostate.edu/tools/equil.html Online Gaseous equilirbium calculator

http://server.chem.ufl.edu/~itl/2041_u98/Equil_16.html Online equilibrium quiz
 
 

Online equlibrium tutoria http://www.wpi.edu/~bc/equil.htm

http://learn.chem.vt.edu/user/long/chemath/S9_ChemEquilbria.html

http://chemistry.rutgers.edu/genchem/eq.html
 
 

http://www.carlton.paschools.pa.sk.ca/chemical/equilibrium/dichromate/LCP_procedureP.htm Online Chem lab for equilibrium. Question sheet is also online

http://yip5.chem.wfu.edu/yip/java/titrate.html online acid/base titrations experiment

http://www.carlton.paschools.pa.sk.ca/chemical/equilibrium/usingss.htm an online tutorial for using spreadsheets to calculate equilibrium data with 2 downloadable spreadsheets that work students through a number of problems.
 
 

8 Sulfuric Acid

http://www.brixworth.demon.co.uk/acidrain2000/acidlinks.htm

http://www.ec.gc.ca/acidrain/acidfact.html

What are the causes of acid rain? What effects do it have?

http://www.orica.com.au/resource/chemfact/pdffiles/sulfuricac.pdf How do we make sulfuric acid?
 
 

9 Petrochemicals and ethene

Plastics in your life http://www.ameriplas.org/benefits/in_your_life/in_your_life.html

http://www.plasticsresource.com/recycling/index.html How to get plastics recycled … products

Summary report on the manufacture of hydrocarbon sourced chemicals http://www.orica.com.au/resource/
 
 

10 Heat of Reactions

http://www.scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/wv/7/0007-000-TOC.html provides a summary of notes and questions for the topic

Chemistry Home Page: Bond Breaking and the Heat of Reaction www.home.earthlink.net/~smarsden/bond.htm

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chemlab/chem3-5/week7/overview/start.html Online calorimetry experiment that determines molar heat of formation of MgO with slides of proceedures and java applets and questions.
 
 

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chemlab/chem3-5/week8/overview/start.html Online calorimetry experiment that determines heat of solution of exo and endothermic reaction with slides of proceedures and java applets and questions.

http://www.carmelmiddle.org/teachers/kendall/calorimetry.htm Fun and stylish calorimetry site

http://owl.chem.umass.edu/Chemland/chemland.html and load the calorimetry website. Excellent online prac!
 
 

http://www.energy.ca.gov/renewables/background.html Gives details about renewable energy sources

Alternately the site http://www.afdc.nrel.gov

Alternative fuel vechicles http://www.afdc.nrel.gov/afvehicles.html and http://www.ift.org/

Natural Gas Association http://www.gas.asn.au/
 
 

11 Galvanic Cells

http://www.shodor.org/UNChem/advanced/redox/redoxcalc.html E0 calculator

http://www.shodor.org/UNChem/advanced/redox/ Excellent summary of redox & electrochem

http://sp.uconn.edu/~terry/229sp98/water_redox.html
 
 

http://data.energizer.com/ data about Eveready batteries.

http://data.energizer.com/batteryinfo/application_manuals/nickel_cadmium.htm (nickel cadmium batteries)

http://www.d-store.com/d-store/product/quest.htm (Nickel Hydride batteries)

http://www.cadvision.com/elmindus/bw_environmental.htm Why recycle batteries http://stopnpp.com/cbfbb1.htm ditto

http://www.duracell.com/Fun_Learning/index.html (Duracell site) lots of activities here

http://www.fuelcells.org/ All you need to know about fuel cells

http://www.howthingswork.com batteries and more!!!
 
 

http://owl.chem.umass.edu/chemland/ecells.html Prac on galvanic cells
 
 

12 Electrolytic Cells

Sodium hydroxide and Chlorine production http://www.orica.com.au/resource/chemfact/pdffiles/chlorine.pdf or http://www.orica.com.au/resource/chemfact/pdffiles/sodhydro.pdf

membrane cell in http://www.eurochlor.org/fsheet/fs01.htm

http://owl.chem.umass.edu/Chemland/chemland.html Electrolysis Prac

http://education.lanl.gov/RESOURCES/h2/daugherty/education.html prac for the production of H2 using Photovoltaic cells

http://edie.cprost.sfu.ca/~rhlogan/electchm.html Good electrochem site

http://www.comalco.com.au Aluminium smelting

http://www.worksafe.gov.au/worksafe/fulltext/docs/h3/46.htm

http://www.finishing.com/faqs/school.html

http://www.culture.fr/culture/archeosm/en/canon.htm Cleaning of brass canons using electrolysis
 
 

13 Lipids and Proteins

http://www.msue.msu.edu/msue/imp/mod01/master01.html All you need to know about preserving food safely

http://www.howthingswork.com/fat.htm How fat works
 
 

Olestra sites

http://www.olean.com/ (pro)

http://www.cspinet.org/olestra/history.html (anti)

http://www.wellesley.edu/Chemistry/Flick/molecules/olestra.html (pic of olestra) or http://www.mpc.edu/academic/chem_dept/mbishop/olestra.htm (comparison of the structure of olestra to other molecules)
 
 

http://www.cems.umn.edu/~aiche_ug/history/h_s_n2.html History of how we get nitrogen for industry

http://208.148.16.10/infomac2/education/haber-process-hc.html Haber process

http://www.efma.org/manufacturing/section01.asp manufacture of fertilisers (brief)

http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/chemweek/ammonia/ammonia.html (all about ammonia)
 
 

http://crisceb.area.na.cnr.it/angelo/petrilli/summary.htm Proteins and AA primer

http://ces.soil.ncsu.edu/net/nitrogen/index.htm Javascripted Nitrogen cycle

http://pkunews.org pku history and biochemistry.
 
 

14 Carbohydrates and Food Energy

http://www.splenda.com/history.htm history and hints of structure of splenda

http://ificinfo.health.org/index8.htm gives a summary of sweeteners

http://ag.arizona.edu/NSC/courses/104nsc/ch01/index.htm powerpoint presentation of carbon chemistry

http://www.cspinet.org/reports/chemcuisine.htm#Alphabetical Food Additives
 
 

These sites describe the Carbon cycle and its relationship to global warming:

http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/carbon/efcarbon.html

http://www.iitap.iastate.edu/gcp/gwmodule/content/greenhouse.html

http://www.gcrio.org/CONSEQUENCES/vol4no1/carbcycle.html
 
 

15 Atomic Theory

http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/AtomicStructure.html History of atomic structure (incomplete)

http://library.advanced.org/16495/data/chemnet/structure/atomic.html High level coverage (but wordy … no pics)

www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/5226/radio.html ok but on radioactivity

http://vcs.abdn.ac.uk/ENGINEERING/lasers/amplification.html Lasers and their connection to atomic structure

http://www.chemtutor.com/struct.htm#str atomic structure and the relationship to the pT table

http://yip5.chem.wfu.edu/yip/organic/pchem-atoms.html Pictures of all the orbitals

http://www.colby.edu/chemistry/OChem/DEMOS/Orbitals.html Movie of orbitals … worth seeing just for the 3 d reps … goes into hybridizn and molecular

http://owl.chem.umass.edu/chemland/Absorption_plugin.html Absorption spectra prac

The Nobel Prize Website http://www.nobel.se/prize/lists.html
 
 

16 Periodic Table

http://yip5.chem.wfu.edu/yip/swlib/ptable.html Periodic table tetris game

http://yip5.chem.wfu.edu/yip/atomicorbitals/kbdbohr2.MOV is a quicktime movie about Bohr, his discoveries and the Bohr atom

http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/News-Releases.html Berkley Laboratory (site of the discovery of the transuranics) look for the latest news stories about the discovery and chacterisation of new elements
 
 

New Elements

http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/element-107-chem.html

http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/elements-116-118.html
 
 

http://owl.chem.umass.edu/chemland/config_plugin.html gives the electron configs of all elements up to 108

http://www.lbl.gov/seaborg/ Glenn Seaborg's Website