The SMALL crossword on "USING CHEMISTRY" @ doc brown's chemistry
FOR PRINTING OUT ONLY, answers found via KS3 chemistry link above
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| 2. | If burning reactions were not of this type of reaction, fuels wouldn't be much good as an energy resource! (10) | | 5. | This type of crop, whatever its benefits, is causing great controversy. (2) | | 7. | A medicine which is usually a good remedy for a headache, but is proving valuable for other medical conditions including heart attack prevention. (7) | | 9. | They may be nasty chemicals but they stop this in wood! (3) | | 10. | A sort of desire to make the best fuel! (7) | | 13. | Typical last part of the name of compound we extract metals from. (5) | | 14. | A simple one of these is made by dipping connected zinc and copper strips into salt or acid solution but we are built of different type of (4)? | | 16. | Our energy releasing process, by lots of amazing enzyme catalysed reactions. (11) | | 17. | Cars don't run too well without it! (4) | | 18. | Initials of a pesticide that is banned in most
countries due to its build-up, and harmful effects, in food chains. (3) | | 19. | The metal used with carbon in the original 'ever ready' battery. (4) | | 21. | Useful chemical for washing hands! (4) | | 22. | A crucial element in ancient and modern metal extraction. (6) | | 24. | The result of any chemical reaction, it makes a new (7)? | | 27. | This is released as heat or electricity when chemicals react. (6) | | 28. | This is conserved in any chemical change. (4) | | 29. | The chemical
Warfarin will kill it! (3) | | 30. | Mixing chemicals to give an exothermic reaction can be used as a hand (6)? | | 31. | It comes along in so many synthetic colours these days. (3) | | 32. | An ideal fuel, no pollution, on burning just water formed! (8) |
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| 1. | The law of (12)? of mass | | 3. | Handy tool that goes with small boats, once made of wood, more likely to be plastic these days? (3) | | 4. | A platinum and rhodium catalyst convert this gas into harmless CO2 in car exhausts. (6,8) | | 6. | A powder of this metal gives bright white flashes to fireworks. (9) | | 8. | The Egyptians almost certainly did NOT make one of these by sticking connected strips of copper and zinc into a citrus fruit! (7) | | 11. | Not very big from a single battery but can add together in series to increase it or use a more reactive metal? (7) | | 12. | A modern material replacing many metals in various products and a common name for a polymer. (7) | | 15. | A long molecule made into many useful products. (7) | | 20. | Can be spontaneous but usually achieved using a match or spark! (10) | | 23. | When the lungs ain't so good, cylinders of this save lives both in the home as well as in in hospitals. (6) | | 25. | Coat this with the sticky product left over from distilling crude oil. (4) | | 26. |
Synthetic fibres made of plastic are much used now in this industry. (7) |
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