C7 Chemistry for a sustainable world
For students and teachers
- www.understandingfoodadditives.org
Find out more about food flavourings at the Understanding Food Additives website. - www.ausetute.com.au/esters.html
There is an animated tutorial on esterification and ester uses at this website:- scroll down and click the link for woodcock for a list of names and uses
- on the woodcock site, click on the name of an ester for a rotatable molecular model
- on the ausetute site (above), click rod.beavon for uses of esters in food
- http://www.food.gov.uk/safereating/chemsafe/additivesbranch/enumberlist
The Food Standards Agency publishes a list of permitted food additives. - www.faia.org.uk/categories.php
The website of the Food Additives and Ingredients Association includes sections about flavourings and colours. - http://chemit.hostinguk.com/pageshow.aspx?PageID=44&selection=0
There is a simple Java applet at this Royal Society of Chemistry site to illustrate collision theory and the idea of activation energy. Select ‘Java applets’, click to ‘view the collection online’, and then scroll down to ‘package 7’. - mc2.cchem.berkeley.edu/Java/equilibrium/
There is a Java applet to illustrate dynamic equilibrium at this site (but it is not always available). The text above the applet is wrong and should be ignored. It refers to colours of light. - www.chm.davidson.edu/ronutt/che115/EquKin/EquKin.htm
There is another applet by the Chemistry Department at Davidson College. Ignore the exercises and questions for GCSE. - www.uksport.gov.uk/
You can find out about procedures used to collect samples from athletes for drug tests with the help of the UK Sport website. Click on ‘Drug free sport’ and then on ‘Education and information’ to follow the link to the ‘100% Me’ website.. - www.greener-industry.org/
Find out about green chemistry and the possible methods for making ethanol at the Greener Industry website. Click on ‘Contents’ and then on ‘Ethanol’. - www.sustain-ed.org
Find out about the chemical industry’s view of sustainability from the Sustain-ed website. - www.cefic.org
The European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) has a website with sections about chemistry in our lives and sustainability. - www.wwf.org.uk
The Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) is an organization that alerts the public to dangers of hazardous chemicals. See the ‘Chemicals and health’ section of the site.
See also: www.wwf.org.uk/researcher/issues/toxics/index.asp - www.greenpeace.org.uk
Greenpeace UK is an organization that campaigns against the use of toxic chemicals. See: Home>Campaigns>Toxics.
For teachers
Background information
- www.ethanol.org/howethanol.html
http://www.sustainableproducts.com/news.html
http://www.nnfcc.co.uk/products/energy/eindex.cfm
www.ethanolindia.net/
These websites provide more information about the manufacture of ethanol and its uses as a fuel.
Teaching resources
- www.molymod.com
Molecular models in the same style as the illustrations for C7 are available from Spiring Enterprises Ltd. - www.chemsoc.org/networks/learnnet/classic.htm
Demonstration 50 in ‘Classic chemistry demonstrations’ from the Royal Society of Chemistry includes a demonstration that some foods contain unsaturated fats. - www.uksport.gov.uk/
The procedure for collecting urine samples for drug testing is outlined in a UK Sport website. The information can be downloaded, to print as a leaflet. Follow: Drug free sport>Education and information>Resources & factsheets. Then follow the link to ‘100% Me’ and click on ‘Downloads’. - www.chemsoc.org/networks/learnnet/alchemy/
The Alchemy? CD-ROMs are available from the Royal Society of Chemistry.