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Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences: Teachers’ Guide for Chemistry

The contents of the Chemistry strand of Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences were broadly the same in both the first and second editions of the publications. The second edition of the Teachers’ Guide showed how the course matched to the 1992 version of the National Curriculum.

Contents of both editions

Introduction to Chemistry

Topic C1: Raw materials

Chapter C1: The elements of chemistry

Chapter C2: Petrochemicals

Chapter C3: Chemicals from plants

Chapter C4: Chemicals and rocks

Topic C2: Materials in use

Chapter C5: Materials and structures

Chapter C6: Glasses and ceramics

Chapter C7: Metals and alloys

Chapter C8: Polymers

Topic C3: Chemicals in our homes

Chapter C9: Foams, emulsions, sols and gels

Chapter C10: Keeping clean

Chapter C11: Dyes and dyeing

Chapter C12: Chemicals in the medicine cupboard

Topic C4: Energy changes in chemistry

Chapter C13: Fuels and fires

Chapter C14: Batteries

Topic C5: Soil and agriculture

Chapter C15: Soil

Chapter C16: Fertilizers

Topic C6: The Periodic Table, atoms and bonding

Chapter C17: The Periodic Table

Chapter C18: Atoms and bonding

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