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UNIT 2: CHEMICAL PROCESSES
Chapter 7: Controlling Chemical Reactions
7.3 Factors that Affect
Rates of Reaction
7.4 Explosives and Air Bags
7.8 Rates and Automobiles
7.9 Blast Off!
7.10 Food Preservation
7.12 Career Profile: Explosives
Expert
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7.3
Factors that Affect Rates of Reaction |
Find sites that show chemical reactions that
occur at different rates.
WHMIS:
What You Need to Know — Reactive Substances, University
of Toronto
Chemical
Kinetics and Reaction Mechanisms – Terms and Concepts of
Chemical Kinetics – Rate of a Chemical Reaction, James A.
Plambeck, University of Alberta
Rate
and Order of Reactions, Computer Assisted Chemistry Tutorial,
University of Waterloo
Rates
of Reaction, Tom Stretton, Thousand Islands Secondary School,
Ontario
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7.4
Explosives and Air Bags |
What do the Nobel Peace Prize and dynamite
have in common?
Alfred
Nobel, the Nobel Foundation
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7.8
Rates and Automobiles |
What is being done to reduce the environmental
impact of cars?
New designs for cars and engines:
Benefits
of electric vehicles, Electric Vehicles Association of Canada
Hypercars,
Rocky Mountain Institute FAQ
Solar
powered cars, Newton's Apple is a production of KTCA Twin Cities
Public Television, USA
Combustion
modeling, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, operated by
the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy
Reinventing
the Wheels", by Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins, Altlantic
Monthly, 1995
Future
cars, trucks will be computers on wheels
'Speed-of-light'
motor may power future cars, Environmental News Network
Air-breathing
engines, Andrew Nowicki
New fuels:
Alternative
Fuels, Transport Canada
Renewable
Fuels, Canadian Renewable Fuels Association
Vehicles, pollution, and recycling:
Vehicle
Recycling Programme, Friends of the Earth Canada
How
much CO2 is produced by a car in a year?, Center for the Study
of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
New
Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, Pollution Prevention
in the Automobile Industry
The auto industry:
North
American Production of Motor Vehicles, Industry Canada
North
American Employment Related to Automotive Industries, Industry
Canada
Canadian
Automotive Industry, 2003, Industry Canada
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7.9
Blast Off! |
Investigate how gases are used in the operation
of one of the following devices: rocket launchers, jet engines,
jet skis.
Chemical
Rocket Launcher, Andrew Nowicki
How
Gas Turbine Engines Work, How Stuff Works Inc.
The
gas-turbine engine, gas-turbines.com
NASA,
Ultra-Efficient Engine Technology
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7.10
Food Preservation |
Visit sites that describe food preservation.
Packaging
breakthrough a step forward for food preservation, University
of Guelph
FOOD
IRRADIATION; ARE WE READY FOR IT, by Dr. Moshe Ipp, October 1997,
Primary Care Pediatrics home page
Food
irradiation: Let's do it, Canadian Medical Association Journal,
1999.
Food
processing, Saskatchewan Interactive
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7.12
Career Profile: Explosives Expert |
Canada has been active in the worldwide movement
to ban land mines. Find out why, and present a brief report on
progress, including how students can support the effort to make
land mines illegal.
SafeLane,
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada contains detailed
information on Canada's efforts.
Mines
Action Canada has comprehensive information on action to ban landmines.
The
Total Ban Banner, UN CyberSchoolBus, United Nations, is an online
education program seeking to involve students in efforts to ban
landmines.
International
Campaign to Ban Landmines, Tokyo Social Centre, Japan
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