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Creative Problem Solving in Chemistry - Six solutions

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Devise experiments to label six numbered solutions correctly using chemicals and apparatus in the laboratory.

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Scotland
- Higher
  - SQA Chemistry
    - 1. Chemical changes and structure
      - (c) Oxidising and reducing agents
        The electrochemical series represents a series of reduction reactions.
        The strongest oxidising agents are at the bottom of the left-hand column of the electrochemical series.
        The strongest reducing agents are at the top of the right-hand column of the electrochemical series.
        An ion-electron equation can be balanced by adding appropriate numbers of water molecules, hydrogen ions and electrons.
- National 5
  - SQA Chemistry
    - Chemistry in society
      - Metals
        Redox
        In a redox reaction, reduction and oxidation take place at the same time.
        Ion-electron equations can be written for reduction and oxidation reactions.
Northern Ireland
- A/AS level
  - CCEA Chemistry
    - Unit AS 3: Basic Practical Chemistry
      - use chemical tests listed in ‘Qualitative tests’ to identify unknown substances;
    - Unit A2 2: Analytical, Transition Metals, Electrochemistry and Organic Nirtrogen Chemistry
      - 5.5 Transition metals
        5.5.12 use, as qualitative detection tests, the formation of precipitates of the hydroxides of Cr³⁺, Mn²⁺, Fe²⁺, Fe³⁺, Co²⁺, Ni²⁺ and Cu²⁺ with NaOH(aq) and NH₃(aq) and,where appropriate, their subsequent dissolution;
England
- GCSE

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