LAMP Topic Brief 1: Fuels
This topic brief was published as part of the ASE’s LAMP Project. The brief was developed for third year pupils following a Nuffield Secondary Science course. It was later trialled in a variety of secondary schools with students of average and below average ability in the 13 to 16 age range. Aims 1. To develop an understanding…
A New Chemistry
This book was written for chemistry students from the age of 11 to 16. Some of the subject matter would currently be appropriate for Advanced Level Chemistry students. The text is divided into chapters, describing the key concepts. There are end-of-chapter questions to test comprehension, and example exam questions related to…
High Polymers
Part of the Chemistry in Industry series, High Polymers was designed as a source-book for science teachers. Contents: Chapter 1: • Polymerization of monomers through addition, condensation, and copolymerisation • The structure and properties of polymers Chapter 2: • Plastics, including: cellulose-based plastics •…
Fuels, Explosives and Dyestuffs
Part of the Chemistry in Industry series, Fuels, Explosives and Dyestuffs is designed as source-book for science teachers. Chapter 2, on fuels, covers: • The origin and nature of fossil fuels • The properties of fuels that are commercially important • Solid fuels • Fluidised combustion • Air pollution •…
Food and Drugs
This book is the fourth in the series of Chemistry in Industry. The text focuses on how food can be produced and preserved by chemical means; crop protection through the use of fungicides, herbicides and insecticides; the use of pain killers – anaesthetics and analgesics; and how drugs can be used to fight infection. Chapter…
Chemical Engineering
This book, from Unilever, focuses on the science of industrial processes. The book begins with the example of the manufacture of coconut monoethanolamide – a material which stabilises foam in surface active systems, to discuss the common unit operations of mixing, pumping, filtering, evaporation, distillation and absorption. The…
Applications of Synthetic Methods in Organic Chemistry
Applications of Synthetic Methods in Organic Chemistry was one of five Macmillan Monographs in the Physical Sciences that were published in the early 1970s. The book was written for a student who has studied organic chemistry and has some familiarity with the chemistry of the main functional groups in aliphatic molecules. Methods…
Energy Levels in Chemistry
Energy Levels in Chemistry was one of five Macmillan Monographs in the Physical Sciences that were published in the early 1970s. This book is concerned with the molecular model, and with how this model can be developed in an elegant and coherent way to relate the energy levels of a molecule to the energy changes of a system. Contents 1.…
Electrochemistry
Electrochemistry was one of five Macmillan Monographs in the Physical Sciences that were published in the early 1970s. The topics discussed in the monograph were divided into two main groups: • Electrical conduction of electrolytes in aqueous solution • Electron transfer processes Contents 1. The conduction of electricity…
Relativity
Relativity was one of five Macmillan Monographs in the Physical Sciences that were published in the early 1970s. The book was intended as an introduction to the subject both for sixth forms in schools and for university students. Exercises were included in the text to illuminate important points of the discussion. In addition the…
Science Teaching For Rosla
In response to the raising of the school leaving age from 15 to 16 in 1972, Bath University and the British Petroleum Company collaborated with a group of experienced Heads of Department from comprehensive schools to produce this bank of ideas for investigations which would be suitable for the students affected by this change. It…
The Polyethylene Twins
This booklet provides information about the discovery and production of low density and high density polyethylene. The properties of the two thermoplastics are compared and diagrams illustrate the process of polymerisation and the structure of each plastic, with a description of how high density polyethylene can be moulded into rigid…
Petroleum Chemicals
This handbook, published by BP Educational Service, was developed to provide an introduction to the petrochemicals industry for advanced level chemistry courses. It describes industrial processes including the hydration of ethane to ethanol, the production of phenylethene and the cracking of hydrocarbons to produce alkenes. The derivatives…
Industry at Work: a Case Study of the Acetic Acid Process
This book, published by the BP Education Service provides students with information about the manufacture of acetic acid and an understanding of the chemical industry and its role in society. The authors chose acetic acid because the chemistry of this substance was likely to be familiar to students. The methods used to produce…
Industrial Processes for Sixth Form: Chemistry Book 1
This resource was published in 1975 by BP Educational Service, which was created by the British Petroleum Company to provide schools and colleges with information about the oil, chemicals and plastics industries. The handbook was developed to provide teachers with material and ideas for open-ended projects which are directly linked…
Experiments in Applied Chemistry
Peter Tooley wrote Experiments in Applied Chemistry to provide a wide selection of experiments to illustrate the range and versatility of the industrial chemist. The four sections of the book relate to the topics covered by his series of readers called Chemistry in Industry. Many of the experiments in the booklet were intended…
An Introduction to Chemical Techniques
This book was intended by the author, Peter Tooley, as an introduction to the principal techniques likely to be used in experimental organic chemistry in a school laboratory. It was expected to be of special value as an introduction to his book called Experiments in Applied Chemistry. The methods covered the preparation and purification…
Investigating Metals
Written by F.C. Brown and published by the English Universities Press, this book takes a close look at some of the properties and uses of metals and invites students to try interesting experiments and to make useful devices based on metals. The text includes questions and problems that students are asked to consider and answer. Some…
Energy and Chemistry
Energy and Chemistry is one of the titles in the series of ASE Lab Books that were published in the early 1970s for the Association for Science Education by John Murray. Each title covered one or two topics and brought together the best of the teaching notes and experimental ideas from members of the association that had appeared…
Chromatography
Chromatography is one of the titles in the series of ASE Lab Books that were published in the early 1970s for the Association for Science Education by John Murray. Each title covered one or two topics and brought together the best of the teaching notes and experimental ideas from members of the association that had appeared in the…
Chemical Equilibrium Acids and Bases
Chemical equilibrium acids and bases is one of the titles in the series of ASE Lab Books that were published in the early 1970s for the Association for Science Education by John Murray. Each title covered one or two topics and brought together the best of the teaching notes and experimental ideas from members of the association that…
Catalysis
Catalysis is one of the titles in the series of ASE Lab Books that were published in the early 1970s for the Association for Science Education. Each title brought together the best of the teaching notes and experimental ideas from members of the association that had appeared in the ASE journal, School Science Review. Contents Cracking…
Ecology
Ecology is one of the titles in the series of ASE Lab Books that were published in the early 1970s for the Association for Science Education by John Murray. Each title covered one or two topics and brought together the best of the teaching notes and experimental ideas from members of the association that had appeared in the ASE journal,…
Biology and Chemistry for Middle Schools
Biology and Chemistry for Middle Schools is one of the titles in the series of ASE Lab Books that were published in the early 1970s for the Association for Science Education by John Murray. Each title covered one or two topics and brought together the best of the teaching notes and experimental ideas from members of the association…
Colourful Chemistry
Written by F.C. Brown and published by the English Universities Press, this book contains guidance on how to carry out a number of laboratory experiments in which colour plays an essential part. The activities look at extracting and using dyes, in making pigments, turning them into paints and using these paints. Other investigations…
Spectroscopy
Spectroscopy is one of a set of resources published by the chemical company ICI between 1971 and 1982. The booklets were the result of a series of workshops at which contributors from industry and schools collaborated. This booklet may be of some interest but more up-to-date information on this topic is available from other sources…
Reactive Dyes
Pesticides is one of a set of resources published by the chemical company ICI between 1971 and 1982. The booklets were the result of a series of workshops at which contributors from industry and schools collaborated. Despite its age this booklet includes information, data and diagrams that are still of potential interest. The…
Polymers 2
Polymers 2 is one of a set of resources published by the chemical company ICI in 1971. The booklets were the result of a series of workshops at which contributors from industry and schools collaborated. Despite its age, this booklet includes information, data, diagrams and suggested exercises that are still of potential interest. More…
Polymers 1
Polymers 1 is one of a set of resources published by the chemical company ICI between 1971 and 1982. The booklets were the result of a series of workshops at which contributors from industry and schools collaborated. Despite its age, this booklet includes information, data, diagrams and suggested exercises that are still of potential…
Pesticides
Pesticides is one of a set of resources published by the chemical company ICI between 1971 and 1982. The booklets were the result of a series of workshops at which contributors from industry and schools collaborated. Despite its age, this booklet includes information, data and diagrams that are still of potential interest. The booklet…
New Protein
New Protein is one of a set of resources published by the chemical company ICI between 1971 and 1982. The booklets were the result of a series of workshops at which contributors from industry and schools collaborated. Despite its age, this booklet includes information, data and diagrams that are still of potential interest. Contents Introduction The…
Heart Drugs
Heart Drugs is one of a set of resources published by the chemical company ICI between 1971 and 1982. The booklets were the result of a series of workshops at which contributors from industry and schools collaborated. Despite its age, this booklet includes many diagrams and an account of the early development of beta-blockers that…
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