Strong acids like sulphuric acid is usesd in factories to make fertilizers, explosives, plastics, synthetic fabrics, paints, dyes, medicines, detergents and other chemicals
Example of strong alkali is Sodium Hydroxide (caustic soda)
Sodium hydroxide solution dissolves fats and used to clean oven and drain blocked cleaners
In industry alkalis are used in the manufacture of soap, glass, paper and textile and in the refining of crude oil
Aluminum metal is obtained from aluminia by electrolysis. This process was discovered by Charles Hall of US in 1886 and Paul Heroult in France
Use of Boron and Zink can improve cotton yield
‘Ion exchange’ is the method to remove the temporary or permanent hardness of water.
An example of inorganic compound is carbon monoxide
Shoot is an example of amorphous carbon
Different forms of same elements are called allotropes
Diamond is allotropic form of carbon
Graphite is used to hold molten metals
Charcoad is used in gas masks for absorbing unpleasant smells
Fullerences are the most recently discovered allotropes
The main ingredient in glass making is sand, the mineral is silical.
The ordinary glass used for bottles and windows is known as soda lime glass as it is made by using soda ash and limestone.
Adding lead oxide in glass making recipe makes crystal glass which has extra brilliance and sparkles like a diamond.
Glass with a very high lead content is made for the nuclear industry because it blocks harmful radiations.
Boron is added to glass making recipe to protect glass from expanding and cracking when heated.
Borosilicate glass is used to make heat resistant cookware and laboratory equipments.
Glues comes from animals by boiling bones and skin of cattle and fish bones
Gums come from the sticky resins make by certain plants.
Most adhesives used today are synthetic and are usually made from petroleum chemicals.
Among the strongest adhesives are the epoxy resins
Gold is the most malleable metal of all.
Silver is used today in photography because many silver salts darken when they are exposed to light.
Platinum is used in industry as a catalyst.
Rubies and sapphires are made mostly of a material called alumina, but rubies are red beacuase they contain tiny amount of chromium and sapphires are ususlly blue as these cotain timy amounts of iron
Driest deserts on earth are the cold, dry valley of Antarctica
Detergents are synthetic products made from petroleum chemicals
Heating fat or oil with alkali like caustic soda makes soap. A product we get from making of soap is glycerine, which is used in making plastics and explosives.
Pure iron is quite a weak metal but if carbon is added to it, it becomes both strong and hard
Iron bricks are called steel ingot
Iron is not found in metal form but extracted from iron ore by
