The SMALL crossword on "ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY" @ doc brown's chemistry
FOR PRINTING OUT ONLY, answers found via KS3 chemistry link above
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| 4. | An important liquid fossil fuel. (3) | | 5. | This is happening to glaciers and arctic ice more with global warming. (4) | | 7. | This sort of 'converter' changes carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide into less harmful gases in a car exhaust (9) | | 9. | Another phrase for the 'greenhouse effect' (6,7) | | 10. | This can happen to those pretty colours on fabrics with too much sunlight, though modern dyes are usually more resistant. (4) | | 12. | These don't like low pH rain running into rivers! (4) | | 13. | Sums up the effects of too much traffic and power station emissions (3,9) | | 15. | The state of metal objects, especially when dug up by archaeologists! (8) | | 16. | What we need to do with soil that's to acid for good crop growth! but not the z variety! (10) | | 18. | What would we do without this plant factory process doing this in daylight! (14) | | 20. | The condition of most stone after a long time. (9) | | 23. | Most plants need this base to live on. (4) | | 24. | In the upper
atmosphere, this absorbs and protects us from harmful ultraviolet radiation (5,5) | | 25. | The warming up effect for growing plants or environmental disaster! (10) | | 26. | Nice to lie on in the sun, but a tanker spillage ruins it for quite a while! (5) | | 27. | Useful structural materials but they so corrode without protection! (6) | | 28. | Vital for life, requires purification treatment before domestic use. (5) |
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Down: |
| 1. | A solid fossil fuel, if only it wasn't so sooty! (4) | | 2. | We all want to run one, whatever the costs involved! (3) | | 3. | A sedimentary rock that readily weathers. (9) | | 6. | A metal that doesn't corrode too badly or too fast, at least for a few years, and keeps the water in old pipes and out of chimney-roof joints. (4) | | 8. | The name of the main gas formed on burning fossil fuels. (6,7) | | 10. | This type of fuel causes a lot of pollution! (6) | | 11. | It is used to treat over acidic soil. (4) | | 14. | One of the 'fallout' effects of burning fossil fuels! (4,4) | | 17. | Use sunblocker or this radiation causes skin cancer (11 or 5,6) | | 19. | The compounds formed by burning things in air or oxygen. (6) | | 21. | Possible increase in this effect of lack of rain in Africa from burning fossil fuels. (7) | | 22. | It wears a bit better than limestone, nice statue Michaelangelo! (6) |
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