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Topic 10 - Using Resources Flashcards

1
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Properties of ceramics

A

Non-metal solids, high melting point, no Carbon, insulate, brittle and stiff

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2
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Examples of ceramics?

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Clay or glass

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3
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How is soda-lime glass made?

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Limestone, sand, sodium carbonate mixture

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4
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How is borosilicate glass made?

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Sand and boron trioxide

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5
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What is a composite?

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One material embedded in another

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6
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What is a matrix?

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A binder for fragments of a material

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7
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What are low density polymers?

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Durable plastic bags/bottles

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8
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How do you make a low density polymer?

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Moderate temp and high pressure

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9
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What are high density polymers?

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Rigid Drainpipes

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10
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How do you make high density polymers?

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Low temp and pressure w/ diff catalyst

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11
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What are thermosoftening polymers?

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Polymer chains entwined w/ weak intermolecular forces

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12
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What are thermosetting polymers?

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Monomers with cross links between polymer chains (like DNA)

Don’t soften when heated

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13
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Why does aluminium corrode less than steel or iron?

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When the top layer corrodes it forms aluminium oxide as a protective barriar

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14
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What is the sacrificial method to stop rusting?

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Put a more reactive metal in. If it’s scratched then the metal goes instead of iron

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15
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How do you make salt water potable?

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Desalination

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16
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What is one method of desalination?

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Neutralise pH
Teat for sodium and chlorine
Distill

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17
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How is waste water treated?

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Screened
Sedimentation
Effluent removed via aerobic digestion
Sludge broken down via anaerobic digestion

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18
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Sedimentation

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Sludge sinks, effluent floats

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19
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Biological aerobic digestion

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Oxygen pumped to encourage aerobic bacteria to break down microbes

20
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How are products of sludge used?

A

Methane gas - energy

Rest is fertiliser

21
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What is the haber process?

A

The most efficient way to make ammonium nitrate

22
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Where does the haber process get nitrogen from?

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Air

23
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What is needed for the haber process to occur?

A

Iron catalyst
400 degrees
200 atmospheres (pressure)

24
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How do you make ammonia?

A

Nitrogen and Hydrogen pass over iron catalyst
Reaches equilibrium and ammonia gas cools in a condenser
N2 and H2 recycled

25
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High temperature in haber process favours

A

Nitrogen, hydrogen and a faster equilibrium

26
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High pressure favours?

A

Ammonia

27
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Phosphate rock and nitric acid produces?

A

Phosphoric acid and calcium nitrate

28
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Phosphate rock and sulfuric acid produces?

A

Calcium sulfate and calcium phosphate

29
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What is a single super phosphate?

A

Calcium sulphate and calcium phosphate

30
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Phosphate rock and phosphoric acid produces?

A

Calcium phosphate

31
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What is a triple superphosphate?

A

Calcium phosphate

32
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Where does potassium come from?

A

The ground

33
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What is useful about polymers?

A

Insulating, flexible, easily molded

34
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What is in bronze?

A

Copper and tin

35
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What is in brass?

A

Copper and zinc

36
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What can be put into gold?

A

Zinc, copper or silver

37
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Why is bronze better than brass?

A

Harder

38
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Why is brass better than bronze?

A

More malleable and lower friction

39
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What is galvanising?

A

Using a barrier and a sacrifice to stop rusting

40
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What is bioleaching?

A

Using bacteria to make copper ore soluble so it can be extracted

41
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What is phytomining?

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Growing plants that contain copper only to use the ashes for electrolysis

42
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What is involved in a life cycle assessment?

A

Getting raw mats
Manufacture and packaging
Usage
Disposal

43
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How can seawater be treated?

A

Reverse osmosis

44
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What is reverse osmosis?

A

Passing water through a membrane to separate the salt in it

45
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What are the reactants of ammonium nitrate?

A

Ammonia(NH3) and Nitric acid(HNO3)

46
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In the lab, how do you make ammonium nitrate?

A

Titration and crystallisation

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