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8.2 The Chemical Earth

General information Components of the Earth Energy and chemical reactions
Compounds Extracting Elements Properties of elements and compounds

General information

A Tutorial for High School Chemistry - a page with numerous links to tutorials from Diamond Bar High School
http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/ChemTeamIndex.html

MicroWorlds: Exploring the Structure of Materials - from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Advanced Light Source
http://www.lbl.gov/MicroWorlds/

The Virtual Classroom - course material from The University of Akron
http://ull.chemistry.uakron.edu/classroom.html

Science is Fun - from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/scifun.html

Concept Maps - from Quantum Science Across Disciplines, Boston University with examples including Atoms/Orbitals Concept Map; Covalent Bond Concept Map; Molecular Orbitals; and Quantum Science Bio Mindmap
http://qsad.bu.edu/ed/TeacherLog/conceptgifs/

..tutorials: with emphasis on applicability to high school students - from The Chemistry Coach. This is a jump site but links are verified regularly.
http://www.chemistrycoach.com/tutorials-1.htm

Timeline of materials technology - from Brainy Encyclopedia
http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/t/ti/timeline_of_materials_technology.html


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Components of the Earth

The Particle Adventure: the fundamentals of matter and forces - from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
http://particleadventure.org/particleadventure/

Particle Physics Education Materials- The Contemporary Physics Education Project, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy, presents educational resources concerning our understanding of particles and interactions, based on CPEP's "Activity Packet." Teachers are encouraged to print out and reproduce these pages for classroom activities. Includes Teacher's Notes
http://particleadventure.org/particleadventure/other/education/index.html

Understanding Our Planet Through Chemistry - from the United States Geological Survey
http://minerals.cr.usgs.gov/gips/aii-home.htm

Methods of chemical analysis

GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS - from North East Wales Institute of Higher Education
http://www.newi.ac.uk/buckleyc/gravi.htm

GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS OF A CHLORIDE SALT - a laboratory procedure from Palomar College as a printable .pdf file
http://www.palomar.edu/chemistry/docs/GRAVIMETRIC%20ANALYSIS%20OF%20A%20CHLORIDE%20SALT.pdf

Gravimetric and Titrimetric Analysis Methods - PowerPoint pdf summary of analysis techniques, from Colorado State University
http://www.chm.colostate.edu/erf/teaching/c335/chap8and9lect.pdf

Methods of separation

Oxygen - from Web Elements Website
http://www.webelements.com/webelements/elements/text/O/

Extraction of Oxygen from Lunar Material - a PowerPoint slideshow, from The Fusion Technology Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/neep533/SPRING2004/lecture13.pdf

Biosphere

Distillation in the manufacture of essential oils. - from Esoteric Oils (Pty) Ltd
http://www.essentialoils.co.za/distillation.htm

Essential oils and their production - from Crop and Food Research
http://www.crop.cri.nz/home/products-services/publications/broadsheets/039essentialoils.pdf

Chromatography - from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem-eng/Biotech-Environ/CHROMO/chromintro.html

Chromatography Of Plant Pigments - teacher's notes and laboratory procedure from NASA Explores
Teacher Sheet
http://nasaexplores.com/show_912_teacher_st.php?id=03010795217&gl=k4
Student Sheet
http://nasaexplores.com/show_912_student_st.php?id=03010795217

How Sugar is Refined - the Basic Story - from Sugar Knowledge International Limited
http://www.sucrose.com/lref.html

Sugarcane Processing - from US Environmental Protection Agency. See p12 for flow chart
http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/ap42/ch09/bgdocs/b9s10-1a.pdf

Flow Charts for sugar extraction and refining
Beet Sugar
Cane Sugar
Refining Raw cane sugar

Lithosphere

Fractional Distillation of Crude Oil - from Elmhurst College
http://www.elmhurst.edu/~chm/onlcourse/chm110/outlines/distill.html

How Oil Refining Works - from How Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/oil-refining.htm

Processing crude oil - refining - from The Institute of Petroleum
http://www.schoolscience.co.uk/content/4/chemistry/fossils/p8.html

DISTILLATION - from the Chemical Engineer's Resource Pages
http://www.cheresources.com/refining.shtml

Hydrosphere

What are materials made of? 3. Separating material mixtures - from SchoolScience
http://www.schoolscience.co.uk/content/3/chemistry/materials/match3pg1.html

Vacuum Pan Salt Refining - from the Salt Institute
http://www.saltinstitute.org/13.html

Where Do We Get Hydrogen? - fact sheet from California Fuel Cell Partnership
http://www.fuelcellpartnership.org/fact_sheets/factsheet_hydrogen.html

Techniques Lab B: Electrolysis and Electrophoresis - from Access Excellence
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEPC/geneconn/gelbox/

DESKTOP ELECTROPHORESIS LAB - MOVING MOLECULES - from Access Excellence
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEPC/WWC/1993/moving.html

Atmosphere

Composition of the Atmosphere - Relative Abundance table - from CFC StarTec
http://www.c-f-c.com/charts/atmosph.htm

Chemical of the Week: Gases of the Air - from University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/chemweek/airgases/airgases.html

Oxygen: Industrial Production - from Chemical Achievers Site - the work of Carl von Linde
http://www.chemheritage.org/EducationalServices/chemach/tpg/cvl.html

Argon - Chemical Properties
http://www.c-f-c.com/specgas_products/argon.htm


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Elements

WebElements Periodic Table - from The University of Sheffield and WebElements Ltd, UK
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/web-elements/index.html

Chemicool Periodic Table - from Massachusetts Institute of Technology- Encyclopedia Britannica Link no longer functions. Other data is well presented.
http://www-tech.mit.edu/Chemicool/

New Superheavy Elements 118 and 116 Discovered at Berkeley Lab - research news from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
http://enews.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/elements-116-118.html

The Periodic Table Challenge - test your knowledge of the Periodic Table from Interactive Learning Paradigms Incorporated
http://www.ilpi.com/genchem/periodicquiz.html

Extraction of Metals - from GSCE Chemistry
http://www.gcsechemistry.com/ex.htm

Expt 024 -- Activity Series - from University of Lincoln, Nebraska USA
http://chemmovies.unl.edu/chemistry/smallscale/SS024c.html

The link above is part of a series of small scale experiments for chemistry, from University of Lincoln, Nebraska online at
http://chemmovies.unl.edu/chemistry/smallscale/ss000.html

Metals and the Reactivity Series - from Redruth School
http://www.redruth.cornwall.sch.uk/departments/science/chem/ks3metal/metalreact.htm

Noble gas - from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_gas

Periodic Table: Noble Gases - from Chemical Element.com
http://www.chemicalelements.com/groups/noblegases.html

Periodic Table: Metalloids - from Chemical Element.com
http://www.chemicalelements.com/groups/metalloids.html

Periodic Table: Non-metals - from Chemical Element.com
http://www.chemicalelements.com/groups/nonmetals.html

Metalloid - from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalloid


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Compounds

Molecule of the Month ­ Aspirin - from Bristol University
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/aspirin/aspirin.htm

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Nitrous Oxide ­ Laughing Gas - from Bristol University
http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/n2o/n2oc.htm

Lewis Structures Tutorial - from Louisiana State University
http://www.chem.lsu.edu/lucid/tutorials/lewistutorial.html

Lewis Dot Structures Worksheet 1 of 5 - from The Chemistry Coach
http://www.chemistrycoach.com/lds1.htm

Basic Organic Nomenclature - a tutorial from Okanagan University College, requires Chime of Rasmol, links supplied on the site
http://www.sci.ouc.bc.ca/chem/nomenclature/nom1.htm

Quia! Chemistry Top 20 activities - from Quia! includes Concentration, Flash Cards
http://www.quia.com/dir/chem/

High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC): A Users Guide - from University of Kentucky
http://kerouac.pharm.uky.edu/ASRG/HPLC/hplcmytry.html

Introduction to Mass Spectrometry (MS) - from University of Arizona, including Mass Spectrometry Tutorial
http://www.chem.arizona.edu/massspec/intro_html/intro.html

Structure World - from Interactive Learning Paradigms Incorporated
http://www.ilpi.com/inorganic/structures/index.html


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Energy and chemical reactions

Oxidation and Reduction - from Kapi'olani Community College, Hawaii
http://library.kcc.hawaii.edu/external/chemistry/redox_title.html

How Photographic Film Works - from How Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/film.htm

Photographic film - well presented site but the author is anonymous
http://users.aber.ac.uk/rha3/film2.htm

Photochemistry: Silver - from Chemistry Comes Alive, American Chemical Society
http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/JCESoft/CCA/CCA3/MAIN/PHOTOAG/PAGE1.HTM

Electrolysis of Water - from HyperPhysics Concepts, Georgia State University
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/electrol.html

Electrolysis: Obtaining hydrogen from water: The Basis for a Solar-Hydrogen Economy - from New Mexico Solar Energy Association
http://www.nmsea.org/Curriculum/7_12/electrolysis/electrolysis.htm

Redox Reactions - concept map from HyperPhysics Concepts, Georgia State University
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Chemical/redoxcon.html

An introduction to redox reactions - from Kiwi Web
http://www.chemistry.co.nz/redox_begin.htm

REDUCTION AND OXIDATION REACTIONS - from ChemTutor
http://www.chemtutor.com/redox.htm

Oxidation/Reduction reactions - list of demonstrations and activities from the American Chemical Society
http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/JCESoft/CCA/CCA3/CONTENTS.HTM#ORRX

Thermochemistry

Endothermic Reaction - from Chemistry Comes Alive, American Chemical Society
http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/JCESoft/CCA/CCA3/MAIN/ENDO2/PAGE1.HTM

Thermite Reaction - from Chemistry Comes Alive, American Chemical Society
http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/JCESoft/CCA/CCA3/MAIN/THERMIT/PAGE1.HTM

Thermochemistry Table of Contents - examples of common high school thermochemistry problems - from Diamond Bar High School
http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/Thermochem/Thermochem.html


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Properties of elements and compounds

Covalent and Ionic Bonds - from Access Excellence
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/GG/cov_IonicBs.html

Chemical bonding: ionic or covalent or what? - from a retired member of San Francisco State University
http://www.chem1.com/acad/webtut/bonding/polcov.html

Covalent Network Substances - sample pages from textbook produced by Aba Books, NZ
http://www.ababooks.co.nz/pdfs/6Chem_WB.pdf

Shapes of Covalent Molecules - sample pages from textbook produced by Aba Books, NZ
http://www.ababooks.co.nz/pdfs/7Chem_WB.pdf

Types of Solids - sample lecture notes from Thinkwell publishers
http://www.thinkwell.com/marketing/sampleNotes/CHM_note.pdf

Three Types of solids - images from Rensellaer Institute
http://www.rpi.edu/dept/chem-eng/WWW/faculty/cale/classes/SMP/lecture1/sld004.htm

Covalent Networks - from Clackamas Community College
http://dl.clackamas.cc.or.us/ch104-08/covalent2.htm

Chemical Bonding Information - from Chemistry Central
http://users.senet.com.au/~rowanb/chem/chembond.htm

Network Solids - from Davidson College - needs Cortona VRML Client
http://www.chm.davidson.edu/ChemistryApplets/Crystals/NetworkSolids.html

Network Solids - a PowerPoint Slide set in .pdf form from Oneonta State University, NY
http://employees.oneonta.edu/kotzjc/POWERPOINT/Ch13_Solids.pdf


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