Ammonia production by the Haber process
How can nitrogen from the air be converted into ammonia quickly, efficiently and economically?
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Metal extraction: molten-salt electrolysis and aluminothermic reduction
Why is electricity used to extract aluminium industrially, while aluminium itself can reduce iron oxide to iron?
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Three demonstration areas
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Why electrolysis?
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Electrolytic-cell cutaway
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Where do ions and electrons move?
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Add cryolite
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Calculate electricity use
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Aluminothermic reaction
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Operating assessment
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Factors affecting reaction rate
Why do some reactions finish in seconds while others take a long time? What determines how fast a reaction proceeds?
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Molecular models of organic compounds
Molecular formulae are drawn on flat paper, but what are the actual three-dimensional shapes? What can a ball-and-stick model reveal?
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