Reactive metals, aluminium, tin and lead

WAEC Chemistry Revision Notes

  • Metals and Their Compounds
  • SS3 · Second Term
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Sodium, calcium and magnesium and their compounds, aluminium (occurrence, extraction, properties, compounds and uses), and tin and lead.

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  1. General properties of metals
  2. Sodium and potassium (Group 1)
  3. Calcium and magnesium (Group 2)
  4. Aluminium
  5. Tin and lead
  6. Where aluminium is found
  7. Purifying bauxite
  8. Compounds of sodium and calcium
  9. Worked theory answer

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      1. Introduction to chemistry
      2. Laboratory apparatus and practical skills
      3. Matter and separation techniques
      4. Symbols, formulae and equations
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      6. Mass and volume relationships
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      1. Carbon and its compounds
    5. Organic Chemistry
      1. Crude oil and petrochemicals
    6. Chemistry, Industry and Society
      1. Industrial chemistry
  2. SS2
    1. Atomic Structure, Bonding and the Periodic Table
      1. Periodic table
    2. Physical Chemistry
      1. Redox reactions
      2. Electrolysis
      3. Faraday's laws of electrolysis
      4. Electrochemical cells and corrosion
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      6. Energy and chemical reactions
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      2. The halogens
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      4. Sulphur and its compounds
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      2. Nuclear chemistry and radioactivity
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      1. Qualitative analysis of ions and gases
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