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Produce a design and create a proto-type of a self-heating can of food.

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16-18 years

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Thermodynamics

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Scotland
- Higher
  - SQA Chemistry
    - 3. Chemistry in society
      - (b) Controlling the rate
        (ii) Reaction pathways
        The enthalpy change is the energy difference between the products and the reactants. The enthalpy change has a negative value for exothermic reactions or a positive value for endothermic reactions.
Northern Ireland
- A/AS level
  - CCEA Chemistry
    - Unit AS 2: Further Physical and inorganic Chemistry and an Introdution to Organic Chemistry
      - 2.8 Energetics
        2.8.1 define the terms exothermic and endothermic and understand that chemical reactions are usually accompanied by heat changes;
        2.8.7 calculate enthalpy changes from experimental data using the equation q = mcΔT;
        2.8.8 demonstrate an understanding of the principle of conservation of energy and define Hess’s Law;
        2.8.9 construct enthalpy cycles using Hess’s Law;
        2.8.10 calculate enthalpy changes indirectly using Hess’s Law;
England
- GCSE
- A/AS level

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