Skip to main content
Skip to navigation

Creative Problem Solving in Chemistry: Aluminium foil

No comments

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

Downloads

Aluminium foil
PDF, Size 35.22 kb
Using the problems
PDF, Size 30.49 kb

No comments

Level

Use

Category

Specification

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

Related articles

Resource
Catalysts and reaction conditions for sustainable industry | 16–18 years
Research and presentation activity based on catalysts and reaction conditions in the context of sustainable industry.
Ideas
Tie sustainable industry into your chemistry topics
2021-07-28T05:47:00Z
Complement your teaching of reaction kinetics, catalysts and equilibrium with UN sustainable development goal 9
Feature
Transition metal catalysts
2021-06-07T06:51:00Z
How catalysis will be safer and more sustainable in the future

No comments yet

You're not signed in.

Only registered users can comment on this article.

Register

More Resources

Resource
Microscale neutralisation and precipitation reactions
2021-08-02T05:32:00Z
Hone your students’ observation skills by asking them to observe two microscale reactions: neutralising citric acid and creating a lead iodide precipitate
Resource
Fossil fuels and global carbon emissions
Classroom activity where learners explore and debate the issues around fossil fuels, energy and global carbon emissions.
Resource
Cisplatin and drug design | 16–18 years
Assess learners’ understanding of the mechanism of cisplatin as an anticancer drug with these examination-style questions.