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In this project, students make their own aspirin or paracetamol and then test the purity of the pain-reliever and compare it to shop-bought. This covers titrations, chromatography and other analytical techniques.
The aim of this project is to investigate the properties of alcohol/water mixtures, and how these properties can be used to measure alcohol content. The alcohol in drinks is ethanol, C2H5OH. However, the ethanol used in the laboratory has been methylated by adding 5% of methanol, CH3...
Students research, and then try out, ways of detecting analgesic compounds in mixtures:
• Chemical tests for particular organic functional groups.
• Paper and/or thin-layer chromatography to separate and identify analgesic...
In this project students use chromatography to detect forged cheques and other documents and various types of counterfeit goods. They will also investigate the best solvents to extract the inks and run TLC plates in order to compare the inks from the same part of a document printed on different models of a printer...
This resource describes 30 hours of independent project work for a silver Crest Award on the subject of art restoration. Students start by carrying out some research about paint pigments:
- What did early artists use? How did they colour their paints? What pigments were available to them?
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In this independent research project students research the causes and consequences of diarrhoea and dehydration. They find out about the different treatments available for dehydration and design some experiments to compare commercial and homemade oral rehydration salts.
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Students investigate the effect of industry or agriculture on a water course, by comparing levels of pollution with those in an ‘unspoilt’ body of water. They will need to consider what form any pollution...
In this independent research project, students investigate the fat and salt content of different crisps and then suggest which crisps would be best for a patient with coronary heart disease. They start by finding out about the effects of high cholesterol and high blood pressure, and what...