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Content of Active Chemistry Pilot Chapters
     
Voyage Down Alimentary Canal
  • Hydrolysis (sugar- starch relationship)
  • Enzymes/Catalysts
  • Chemical test for starch
  • Increased surface area/rate of Rxn
  • Temperature and rate of reaction
  • Acid/Bases/Neutralization/Titration
  • Acid/base indicators
  • Gas collection by water displacement
  • Chemical test for CO2
  • Charles law/gas pressure
  • Stoichiometry
  • Gay-Lussac's law
  • Diffusion
  • Osmosis, semi-permeable membrane
  • Concentration
  • Equilibrium
  • Representing very small numbers
  Artist as Chemist
  • Physical/chemical properties of matter
  • Atomic structure
  • Electron arrangement
  • Organic vs inorganic
  • Acid - pH/acid formation
  • Physical/chemical changes
  • Classification of matter
  • Conservation of mass
  • Percent composition
  • Polarity
  • Alloys and properties of metals
  • Electroplating
  • Bonding (ionic, covalent, metallic)
  • Water of hydration
  • Intermolecular forces
 
     
Cookin' Chemistry
  • Heat vs. Temperature
  • Organic molecules, functional groups
  • Combustion
  • Stoichiometry
  • Energy changes in reactions
  • Energy and phase changes
  • Exothermic vs Endothermic Rxns
  • Conservation of energy and matter
  • Activation energy
  • Bond energies
  • Intermolecular forces
  • Types of solutions
  • Molar quantities
  • Solution concentration
  • Crystallization
  • Heating and cooling curves
  • Heat of fusion
  • Specific heat
  • Protein denaturation
  • Protein structure
  Ideal Toy Company
  • Battery function
  • Physical/chemical properties of matter
  • Gas laws
  • Gas production
  • Decomposition reactions
  • Density of gases
  • Diffusion
  • Redox reactions
  • Energy transformations
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Particulate nature of matter
  • Stoichiometry
  • Polymers
  • Thermoset vs thermoplastic
 
     
Forensics
  • Acids/Bases
  • Combustion reactions
  • Precipitates
  • Solubility
  • Metals/nonmetals
  • Double-displacement reactions
  • Ionic, covalent compounds
  • Solvents/solutes
  • Chromatography
  • Atomic structure of a solid
  • Solubility rules
  • Polymers
  • Atomic structure luminescence
  • Light and chemilumenence
  • Single-displacement reactions
  • Redox reactions
  • Significant figures
  • Density
 Chemical Dominoes
  • Focus on energy conservation
  • Chemical vs physical properties
  • Enthalpy and entropy change
  • Engineering design process
  • Conservation of mass
  • Balancing chemical reactions
  • Stoichiometry
  • Reactivity of metals with acids/bases
  • Arrhenius definition of acids/bases
  • Energy vs wavelength
  • Visible electromagnetic spectrum
  • Absorption/emission in spectroscopy
  • Conservation of energy
  • Endothermic/exothermic
  • Reaction diagrams, effect of catalysis
  • Electrochemical cells
  • Electrolytes
  • Enthalpy vs entropy as driving forces
 
     
Soap Manufacture
  • Introduction to cleaning agents
  • Structural diagram/Lewis dot
  • Structure of fats
  • Structure effect on chemical properties
  • Chain length, saturated vs unsaturated
  • Van der Waals forces
  • Acids - Bases - Arrhenius definition
  • Properties and operational definition
  • Neutralization
  • pH, pH scale
  • Hydrophilic/hydrophobic interactions
  • Tetrahedral structure of carbon bonding
  • Logarithms
  • Experimental design
  It's Water
  • Naming compounds
  • Ionic/molecular
  • Periodic trends/classification of matter
  • Solubility/precipitation reactions
  • Spectral absorption
  • Analysis by ion specific electrodes
  • Acids/bases/pH/equilibrium
  • Solubility factors
  • Chemical bonding
  • Electron densities
  • Electrostatic forces
  • Hess's law/order/disorder
  • Law of thermodynamics
  • Dynamic states of equilibrium, Ksp
  • Suspensions/Tyndall effect
  • Coagulants/anti coagulants
  • Ionic equilibrium
  • Human toxicity limits
  • Carcinogens
  • Rates of chemical reactions
  • Properties of fluids
 
     
Cool Chemistry Show
  • Chemical and physical change
  • Solution chemistry
  • Reactions in solution
  • Predicting ionic charge
  • Naming compounds
  • Writing formulas
  • Ionic/molecular compounds
  • Types of chemical equations
  • Conservation of matter
  • Predicting products
  • Energy changes in chemical reactions
  • Reaction rates
  • Acids and bases
  • pH scale
  • Oxidation/reduction reactions
  Fuel Cells
  • Energy scenario
  • Sources of energy
  • CO2 emissions
  • Greenhouse effect/global warming
  • CO2 sequestration
  • Hydrogen economy
  • Energy carriers
  • Fuels, caloric value, flammability limits
  • Hydrogen production
  • Activity series of metals
  • Thermochemistry
  • Energy conservation
  • Specific heat capacity
  • Reaction kinetics
  • Common ion effect
  • Adsorption of gases
  • Voltaic cells, electrolysis, cell potentials
  • Electroplating
  • Fuel cells, proton exchange membrane
  • Ernst equation, basis of pH calculations
  • Chemicals to power generation
  • Metal - Air fuel cells
 
     
Movie Special Effects
  • Electrolysis
  • Element/compound
  • Chemical formulas
  • Chemical symbols
  • States of matter
  • Kinetic/potential energy
  • Phase change energy
  • Phase change diagram
  • Properties of matter
  • Gas behavior
  • Melting/boiling point
  • Mixtures/suspensions/colloids
  • Density
  • Significant Figures
  • Metals/nonmetals
  • Polymers
  • Organic/inorganic
  • Hydrocarbons
  • Combustion
  Periodic Table
  • Trends in the Periodic Table
  • Properties of Elements
  • Physical/chemical properties
  • Atomic mass, isotopes
  • Relative mass
  • Experimental error
  • Mole concept
  • Scientific notation
  • Law of definite proportions
  • Atomic structure
  • Neutron/proton/electron
  • Bohr model
  • Electromagnetic spectrum
  • Emission spectrum
  • Atomic spectra
  • Ionization energy
  • Electron configuration
  • Predicting formulas
  • Ionic and covalent bonding
  • Electron dot diagrams
  • Fusion/fission
 
     

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