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Creative Problem Solving in Chemistry: Aluminium foil

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Find out which salt or ion, from a selection provided, is the best catalyst for the reaction between aluminium and dilute hydrochloric acid.

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Republic of Ireland
- Junior Cycle
  - Science
    - Chemical world
      - Systems and interactions
        7. Investigate the effect of a number of variables on the rate of chemical reactions including the production of common gases and biochemical reactions.
Wales
- GCSE
  - WJEC Chemistry
    - Unit 1: CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES, REACTIONS and ESSENTIAL RESOURCES
      - 1.5 RATE OF CHEMICAL CHANGE
        (d) catalysts as substances that increase the rate of a reaction while remaining chemically unchanged and that they work by lowering the energy required for a collision to be successful (details of energy profiles are not required)
  - WJEC Combined science
    - Unit 2: Chemistry 1
      - 2.5 RATE OF CHEMICAL CHANGE
        (d) catalysts as substances that increase the rate of a reaction while remaining chemically unchanged and that they work by lowering the energy required for a collision to be successful (details of energy profiles are not required)
- A/AS level
  - WJEC Chemistry
    - Unit 2: ENERGY, RATE AND CHEMISTRY OF CARBON COMPOUNDS
      - 2.2 Rates of reaction
        (e) characteristics of a catalyst
        (f) how catalysts increase reaction rates by providing alternative routes of lower activation energy
England
- GCSE

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