How is Chemistry actually useful in our everyday lives?
How do matches work? Why does branding work? How can Santa best be
kept warm?
Some of the animations above are hyperlinked to larger versions.
Test your knowledge of parts of this topic by the interactive quiz 9H1 above
See below for Mr Chard's Gunpowder plot video clip, plus posters and pictures of
a violent displacement reaction
The gunpowder plot video clip! courtesy of Mr Chard. How do you make
gunpowder reliably? What is the recipe?!
Distant shot of Fiddlers Ferry, showing water vapour clouds. Up to 25,000
tonnes of coal are burnt every day!
Fire invention poster by EG
Candles invention poster by RT
Matches by SS
My new invention by CF (check grammar and spelling: easily, available)
Lighter invention poster by SF (check spelling: bunsen)
Matches by CS
Burning matches by LB
Fire invention poster by SB (check spelling: deodorant)
Flamin' fantastic by JB (check spelling: accepted)
Flamer 4000 by AP
Flamethrower by DH
Matches by CP
0600 A Violent Displacement Reaction! Mg powder + Silver Nitrate + one drop of
water 1/30th of a second between frames
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More examples of displacement reaction Mg + AgNO3 + H2O