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What are finite resources?

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Resources that are used up at a faster rate which they can be replaced.

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What are renewable resources?

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Resources that are used up at the same rate in which they can be replaced.

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What are some examples of finite resources?

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  • Metal ores used to extract metals
  • Crude oil used to make polymers
  • Limestone to make petrol and concrete
  • Crude oil to make the petrol, diesel and kerosene we use for transport
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What are the methods of extracting metals from their ores and how do they work?

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  • Smelting (Then electrolysis)
  • Displacement using scrap iron to extract copper
  • Bioleaching (Having bacteria feed on the low-grade metal ore-this obtains a solution of copper ions-leachate)
  • Phytomining (Plants are planted in soil containing a low percentage of copper ore, absorm it and are burnt in air-the ash contains high percentage of copper compound-then electrolysis)
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What are the 4 stages in a life-cycle assessment?

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  • Raw material extraction
  • Manufacture
  • Use/Reuse/Maintainance
  • Recycle/Waste management
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What is potable water?

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Water that is safe to drink

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How is water made safe to drink?

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  • By firstly passing the untreated water through filter beds of sand and gravel to remove insoluble particles
  • Sterilising the water (via chlorine or ozone to kill microorganisms or by passing UV light through the water)
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What is a method to purify salty water?

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Desalination via distillation or reverse osmosis

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What is reverse osmosis?

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Where water is put under high pressure and passed through a membrane that prevents most ions from passing through

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How is waste water treated?

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  • Screening and grit removal to remove large particles
  • Sedimentation to allow tiny particles to settle out from still water which produces sludge and effluent
  • The sewage sludge is digested anaerobically by specific bacteria
  • The effluent is treated with aerobic bacteria
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What are the uses of ‘sludge’?

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As a fertiliser of burnt to generate electricity

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How can the effluent be made safer?

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By filtering it one more time through a bed of sand and/or sterilised by UV light or chlorine

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What is needed for the corrosion of iron?

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Oxygen and water

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What is the formula for rusting?

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Iron + Oxygen + Water –>hydrated iron(III) oxide

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What are ways to prevent rusting?

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  • Paint
  • Oil or grease
  • Plastic
  • A less/more reactive (sacrificial metal)
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What is a sacrificial method for protecting iron?

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Adding zinc (galvanising)

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What is a mixture of metal called?

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Alloys

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Why are alloys useful?

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The differently-sized metal ions make it harder for the layers to slip-they are jammed in position

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What are examples of Copper alloys?

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  • Bronze (copper and tin)
  • Brass (copper and zinc)
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What is gold mixed with?

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Silver, copper and zinc-enables it to be stronger

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What are examples of steel alloys?

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  • Low carbon steel
  • High carbon steel
  • Alloy steels-stainless steel contains chromium and nickel
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What is the main glass we use?

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Soda lime glass

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How is soda lime glass made?

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By melting a mixture of silicon dioxide (sand), sodium carbonate and limestone

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What glass has the highest melting point?

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Borosilicate glass made from heating sand with boron trioxide

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How are clay ceramics made?

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Wet clay is moulded then heated in a furnace to cause crystals to join together

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What causes different polymers to be made?

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Different monomers and different conditions in which the monomers were joined together

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What are the 2 types of polyethene?

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Low density and high density

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What are the properties of low density polyethene compared to high density polyethene?

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LDPE is softer so is generally used in more flexible products

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What is the structure of LDPE compared to HDPE?

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  • LDPE has a structure where the polymer chains are branched and arranged randomly
  • HDPE has less branching of polymer chains-the molecules line up much more closely
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How is LDPE made vs HDPE?

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At a lower pressure

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What are the 2 main types of polymers?

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Thermosoftening and thermosetting

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How do thermosoftening polymers react when heated?

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They don’t have covalent bonds between neighbouring polymer molecules so the molecules can move past each other when heated and the plastic melts

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How do thermosetting polymers react when heated?

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They have cross linking via covalent bonds so have much larger intramolecular forces-can’t be recycled but are used where it may get hot

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What are composite materials?

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Two or more materials with different properties

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What components do composite materials have?

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  • The reinforcement
  • The matrix-that binds the reinforcement together
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Why can’t plants not use nitrogen in air?

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It is insoluble in water

37
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What nitrate ions can crops take in?

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NO₃⁻

38
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What is the formula in the Haber process?

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N₂ + 3H₂ ⇌ 2NH₃
Nitrogen + Hydrogen ⇌ Ammonia

39
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What are the raw materials for the haber process?

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  • Nitrogen from the air
  • Hydrogen mainly from natural gases containing methane
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What are the conditions in the Haber process?

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  • 450°C
  • 200atm
  • Iron catalyst
41
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What happens in the Haber process?

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  • Nitrogen and hydrogen are pumped through pipes
  • The gases are pressurised then heated
  • The gases react over beds of iron catalysts and the reaction mixture is cooled so that the ammonia is liquified and removed
  • The unreacted nitrogen and hydrogen are recycled
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How is nitrogen extracted from air?

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Fractional distillation

43
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How is hydrogen produced from natural gases?

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Steam is added to form hydrogen and carbon monoxide

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What does increasing the pressure do in the Haber process and are there any compromises?

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  • Increases the rate of reaction
  • Increases the amount of products made (more moles in reactants)
  • Compromise: Need lots of energy and strong containers to withstand high ressures
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What does increasing the temperature in the Haber process do and are there any compromises?

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  • Increases rate of reaction
  • Decreases amount of products made (exothermic reaction)
  • Compromise: Yield vs rate of reaction
46
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What does adding a catalyst in the Haber process do?

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It just speeds up the rate of reaction

47
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What do fertilisers do?

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Provide mineral ions needed for healthy growth in plants

48
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How is nitric acid formed?

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The oxidation of ammonia

49
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What forms ammonium nitrate?

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  • Ammonia + Nitric acid –> Ammonium nitrate
  • NH₃ + HNO₃ –> NH₄NO₃
50
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What acids can ammonia also react with?

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  • Sulfuric acid-reacts at 60°C
  • Phosphoric acid
51
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What are the main fertilisers called?

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NPK-Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium

52
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Why is nitrogen needed?

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Healthy leaves

53
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Why is phosphorus needed?

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Healthy roots

54
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Why is potassium needed?

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To promote growth

55
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How is sulfuric acid produced?

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1) Sulfur + oxygen –> sulfur dioxide
2) Sulfur dioxide + oxygen ⇌ sulfur trioxide
3) Sulfure trioxide + water –>sulfuric acid

56
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Where does potassium come from?

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Mined potassium chloride and potassium sulfate

57
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How is phosphate rock treated?

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1) With nitric acid to produce phosphoric acid and calcium nitrate-phosphoric acid is the neutralised with ammonia to produce ammonium phosphate
2) With sulfuric acid to produce a single superphosphate-mixture of calcium phosphate and calcium sulfate
3) With phosphoric acid to produce triple superphosphate-calcium phosphate

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