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AQA A-level Chemistry Student Guide: Practical Chemistry
Nora Henry
AQA A-level Chemistry Student Guide: Practical Chemistry
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Exam Board: AQA
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: Chemistry
First Teaching: September 2015
First Exam: June 2016

Ensure your students get to grips with the core practicals and develop the skills needed to succeed with an in-depth assessment-driven approach that builds and reinforces understanding; clear summaries of practical work with sample questions and answers help to improve exam technique in order to achieve higher grades.
Written by experienced author Nora Henry, this Student Guide for practical Chemistry:
- Help students easily identify what they need to know with a concise summary of required practical work examined in the A-level specifications.
- Consolidate understanding of practical work, methodology, mathematical and other skills out of the laboratory with exam tips and knowledge check questions, with answers in the back of the book.
- Provide plenty of opportunities for students to improve exam technique with sample answers, examiners tips and exam-style questions.
- Offer support beyond the Student books with coverage of methodologies and generic practical skills not focused on in the textbooks.

Language
English
ISBN
9781471885518
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Title Page
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Contents
About this book
Skills Guidance
Health and safety
Significant figures
Required practical activities
1 Make up a volumetric solution and carry out a simple acid–base titration
2 Measurement of an enthalpy change
3 Investigation of how the rate of a reaction changes with temperature
4 Carry out simple test-tube reactions to identify cations and anions
5 Distillation of a product from a reaction — preparation of an organic liquid
6 Tests for alcohol, aldehyde, alkene and carboxylic acid
7a Measuring the rate of reaction by a continuous monitoring method
7b Measuring the rate of a reaction by an initial rate method
8 Measuring the EMF of an electrochemical cell
9 Investigate how pH changes when a weak acid reacts with a strong base and when a strong acid reacts with a weak base
10 Preparation of a pure organic solid (and test of its purity)
11 Carry out simple test-tube reactions to identify transition metal ions in aqueous solution
12 Separation of species by thin-layer chromatography.
Questions & Answers
Practice questions
Knowledge check answers
Glossary
Index
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