Year 9 · Spring First Half
Chemistry
2 lessons from 1 unit.
Unit C9 · lessons 3 to 4 of 4
Some metals sit in the ground as the metal itself and some have to be torn out of a rock with electricity, and the difference is one order that was worked out by putting metals into liquids and watching. This unit is about that order, what it predicts, what it costs — and then about the materials that are not metals at all.
- 03Getting metals out of rocksProcessMost metals come out of the ground in rocks that look nothing like metal. How do you get the metal out?Open this lesson
- 04Ceramics, polymers and compositesContrastA china plate shatters on a tiled floor and a plastic beaker bounces. So which of the two is the stronger material?Open this lesson
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