Table of Contents

Part 1 Materials: changing substances; matter and materials - choosing materials; elements - the building blocks for materials - Lavoisier's elements; different kinds of mixtures; separating mixtures. Part 2 Air and water: what's in the air?; oxygen, oxides and oxidation -industrial gases from air; corrosion and rusting - which kind of rust protection?, car exhaust systems; how pure is the air? - pollution and power stations; getting water supplies; water and solutions; how pure is the water? -trouble with aluminium, cleaning up the Thames, examining the water. Part 3 What are things made of?: particles on the move - Dr. Brown and Dr. Einstein; atoms, molecules and ions - ideas about atoms; chemical equations; weighing atoms -the mass spectrometer; chemical calculations; the structure of substances - believing without seeing; giant structures. Part 4 Raw materials: making things from raw materials; limestone - making money from limestone, what could we use instead of limestone?; ammonia and fertilizers - for and against artificial fertilizers; sulphur and sulphuric acid; chemicals from salt. Part 5 Metals: metals as materials; reaction of metals; extracting metals - atmospheric corrosion of zinc, the prices of metals, mining copper in Papua New Guinea. Part 6 Families of elements: a guided tour of the Periodic Table; Dmitri Mendeleev and the Periodic Table; across a period; sodium and family; magnesium and family.

About the Author

John Holman is one of the authors of the highly successful Chemistry in Context which is written for students studying Chemistry at Advanced Level.