C 15 Using our resources Flashcards
conditions for rusting
both air and water needed
preventing rust
providing barrier between iron and air oxygen
1. paint
2. oil grease
3. plastic
4. less/more reactice metal
protecting iron with zinc (more reactive)
iron galvanised, sacrificial protection fro zinc to ptotect iron, even when iron is exposed to water and air
characteristics of alloys
harder than pure metals becasue layers are disorted by differently sized atoms, so they don’t slide.
mixture and formulation
copper alloy
copper with tin. broze to make statues, resistant to corrusion
brass+copper= brass qhich is harder, used for musical instruments
Al alloys
al low densities, many diff alloys can be made.
eg. aircraft
gold alloys
gold+copper=jewellery
pure gold wears away to easily, varying proportions allows to get diff shades of gold
percentage of gold in alloys
divide n carat by 24 x 100
diff steels
High carbon steel
low carbon steel=soft easily shaped
stainless steel=chronium-nickel, don’t rust, hard resistant, eg cooking utensiles, cutlery, in chemical insustry
what happens when you heat thermosetting polymers
don’t melt
materials of sand
sand, limestone, sodium carbonate
types of glass
soda-lime=sand,sodium carbonate, calcium carbonate
borosilicate= sand, boron trioxide, melt at higher p.
all mixet together at heated at high temp
clay ceramics
hard, unreactive, resistant to heat
wet clay is baked in furnace
eg. briks, ceramig mugs, plates, crockery
what are composites
made of 2 maerials.
have reinforcement (fibres, fragments) in Matrix (binds them together)
fibre-glass composite
reinforcement= glass fibres
matrix=polymer
lighter,malleable.
cars