Stage II Background Books
The Nuffield Chemistry Background Books appeared as a series of colourful, highly illustrated, short readers to amplify and extend work done in class. Some of the books described applications of chemistry, others were historical while a few focused on particular chemical ideas. Some of the books featured all these aspects of chemistry.
Themes
There were 18 Background Books for Stage II of the course. These were written for students in the age range 14-16.
Mainly applications:
• Coal
• Making Diamonds
• Petroleum
• Plastics
• Detergents
• Fertilizers and Farm Chemicals
• Man-made Fibres
Mainly historical:
• Dalton and the Atomic Theory
• Humphry Davy
• Inside the Atom
• Michael Faraday
• The Nitrogen Problem
• The Periodic Table
• The Start of X-ray Analysis
Mainly about concepts:
• Dissolving
• Catalysis
• The Structure of Substances
• Radioactive Chemicals
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Coal
This is one of the 18 Background Books published for Stage II of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book describes applications of chemistry in the coal industry. There are two parts to this book: • Part 1: Mining for coal The history of coal mining…
Making Diamonds
This is one of the 18 Background Books published for Stage II of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book describes the application of chemistry to extract and manufacture diamonds. The book describes the manufacture of synthetic diamonds in the early 1960s…
Petroleum
This is one of the 18 Background Books published for Stage II of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book describes applications of chemistry in the petrochemical industry. There are three parts to this book: • Part 1: Petroleum and where it comes…
Plastics
This is one of the 18 Background Books published for Stage II of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book describes applications of chemistry to making plastics and explaining their properties. There are 5 parts to this book: • Part 1: What are plastics? This…
Detergents
This is one of the 18 Background Books published for Stage II of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated designed to be attractive. This book describes applications of chemistry to cleaning. There are three parts to this book: • Part 1: Soap This part explains how soap is formed from fats…
Fertilizers and Farm Chemicals
This is one of the 18 Background Books published for Stage II of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book describes applications of chemistry. There are 3 parts to this book: • Part 1: The World Food Problem This part outlines the challenge to chemists…
Man-made Fibres
This is one of the 18 Background Books published for Stage II of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book describes applications of chemistry. This books includes text and flow diagrams to describe the discovery and production of semi-synthetic fibres (from…
Dalton and the Atomic Theory
This is one of the 18 Background Books published for Stage II of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book describes early thinking about atoms that led, in time, to modern chemistry. There are two parts to this book: • Part 1: The quiet genius This…
Humphry Davy
This is one of the 18 Background Books published for Stage II of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book describes aspects of the history of chemistry by describing the life and work of Humphry Davy. This book was published in 1966 but can still be used to…
Inside the Atom
This is one of the 18 Background Books published for Stage II of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book describes aspects of the history of chemistry by exploring the evidence that led to modern theories of atomic structure. There are 4 parts to this book:…
Michael Faraday
This is one of the 18 Background Books published for Stage II of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book describes aspects of the history of chemistry and physics by describing the life and work of Michael Faraday. This book was published in 1967 but can…
The Nitrogen Problem
This is one of the 18 Background Books published for Stage II of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book outlines the chemical nitrogen problem and then describes the limitations of the Cyanamid process and the solution devised by Haber and Bosch This book…
The Periodic Table
This is one of the 18 Background Books published for Stage II of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book describes aspects of the history of chemistry by exploring the developments that led to the Periodic Table. There are 4 parts to this book: • Part…
The Start of X-ray Analysis
This is one of the 18 Background Books published for Stage II of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book was written by the X-ray pioneer, Sir Lawrence Bragg, who describes the early use of X-rays to discover the structures of ionic crystals. This book was…
Dissolving
This is one of the 18 Background Books published for Stage II of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book explores the chemical ideas related to solubilility and solutions. The main ideas covered are: • what happens when a substance dissolves • the…
Catalysis
This is one of the 18 Background Books published for Stage II of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book explores theories of catalysts and describes some industrial uses of catalysts. There are three parts to this book: • Part 1: The nature and uses…
The Structure of Substances
This is one of the 18 Background Books published for Stage II of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book describes what chemists know about the structure of substances and follows from the Background Book called The Start of X-Ray Analysis <link>. The…
Radioactive Chemicals
This is one of the 18 Background Books published for Stage II of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book describes applications of chemistry but includes some historical sections and covers some applications. There are six parts to this book: • Part…
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- Nuffield Chemistry
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