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Burning and Bonding Unit Guide

This Salters’ Chemistry Course unit from the University of York Science Education Group covered:
* causes and control of fire
* flash points & controlled burning
* energy changes in chemical reactions
* bond breaking and making exothermic and endothermic changes
* energy level diagrams
* relation between bonding and bulk properties.

Core contents
BB1: How do fires start? How do we put them out?
BB2: How is burning controlled?
BB3: Why does natural gas produce heat as it burns?
BB4: Are all reactions exothermic?
BB5: Is energy needed to get reactions started?

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