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In search of more solutions: Making ice

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Determine whether hot or cold water freezes first.

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In Search of more Solutions book: £19.95

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Republic of Ireland
- Junior Cycle
  - Science
    - Chemical world
      - Building blocks
        2. Develop and use models to describe the nature of matter; demonstrate how they provide a simple way to to account for the conservation of mass, changes of state, physical change, chemical change, mixtures, and their separation.
        4. Classify substances as elements, compounds, mixtures, metals, non-metals, solids, liquids, gases and solutions.
      - Energy
        9. Consider chemical reactions in terms of energy, using the terms exothermic, endothermic and activation energy, and use simple energy profile diagrams to illustrate energy changes.

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In Search of More Solutions
In Search of More Solutions provides material for chemical “egg race” competitions that help to put the fun back into chemistry, and gives students that “little bit extra” to motivate them to follow a scientific or technical career.
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