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What is borosilicate glass made off?

A

Boron trioxide and sand

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Process of bioleaching

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Uses a bacteria to convert an insoluble copper compound into a soluble copper compound, separating it from the ore. Displacement with scrap iron or electrolysis can separate it from the leachate

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3
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Four stages of waste water treatment

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Sedimentation, aerobic digestion, anaerobic digestion, screening

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4
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What’s bronze made off?
What’s brass made off?

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Copper and tin
Copper and zinc

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5
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What do you get in the complete combustions on an alkane?
Incomplete combustion of Alkenes?

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Alkane+oxygen—> carbon dioxide + water
Alkene+oxygen—>carbon+ carbon monoxide+carbon dioxide+water

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6
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What happens during polymerisation?

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C=C breaks and the monomers join together with single bonds

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7
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What bonds do giant covalent structures have that simple molecules don’t?

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Giant covalent structures have covalent bonds whereas simples molecules have intermolecular forces between molecules.Covalent bonds are stronger than intermolecular forces so they have higher melting and boiling points

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What is a zero error?
Why can it not be reduced by doing repeats?
How do we solve this?

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A reading on a measuring instrument when the value should be zero.
Because it is a systematic error not a random error.
Subtract the zero error from each reading

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