SS2 Chemistry – Oxidizing and Reducing Agents

CONTENT • Identification of Oxidizing and Reducing agents • Balancing of Redox equation in Acidic and Alkaline medium   OXIDIZING AND REDUCING AGENTS An oxidizing agent is defined as a

SS2 Chemistry – Types of Reaction/REDOX Reactions

CONTENT • Definition of Oxidation and Reduction. • Relationship between Oxidation number and IUPAC naming   TYPES OF REACTIONS Chemical reactions are changes in which some new chemical substances are

SS2 Chemistry – The Periodic Trend

CONTENT • The Periodic Properties of Elements: Atomic size, Ionic size, Ionization Energy, Electron Affinity, Electronegativity down the group and across the period. • Diagonal Relationship in the Properties of

SS2 Chemistry – The Periodic Table

CONTENT • Historical Development of the Periodic Table/Periodic Law. • Features of the Periodic Table. • Periodic Classification into Blocks and Families. • Families of Elements.     THE PERIODIC

SS1 Chemistry – Applied Chemistry

CONTENT Raw materials used in chemical industries and their sources. Division of chemical industries: heavy chemical, fine chemicals, fertilizers, plastics, metallurgy, pharmaceutical, glass, ceramics, paints, cements, soap and detergent.  

SS1 Chemistry – Cracking and Reforming

CONTENTS (iii) Cracking of petroleum (thermal and catalytic) (iv) Antiknock and Octane rating   CRACKING: Cracking is the process use in breaking down large hydrocarbon molecules into two or more

SS1 Chemistry – Introduction to Hydrocarbons

CONTENTS   Sources of hydrocarbon Classification (of aliphatic hydrocarbon) Petroleum and natural gas (i) Refining of Petroleum by fractional distillation (ii) Uses of different fractions   PETROLEUM CHEMISTRY HYDROCARBON AND

SS1 Chemistry – Trioxocarbonate (IV) Acids

TRIOXOCARBONATE (iv) ACID H2CO3 is formed when CO2(g) is dissolved in water. H2CO3 is a weak dibasic acid. It forms two series of salts: Normal trioxocarbonate (iv) Acidic hydrogen trioxocarbonate

SS1 Chemistry – Coal and Fuel  Gases

CONTENT Coal. Fuel gases/Gasification of coke.   COAL Coal is an impure form of carbon. Coal is a complex mixture of compounds composed mainly of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen with

SS1 Chemistry – Oxides of Carbon

CONTENT Carbon (iv) oxide Carbon (ii) oxide   CARBON (iv) OXIDE The percentage composition of carbon (iv) oxide in the atmospheric air is about 0.03% by volume while in dissolved