C1- Air Quality (C1.2)

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What is coal ?
it is mainly Carbon
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What are mainly compounds of hydrocarbons ?
Petrol, diesel fuel, fuel oil
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What is a hydrocarbon ?
A molecule made up of only carbon and hydrogen atoms
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when fuels burn, atoms of carbon and/ or hydrogen from the fuel combine with oxygen fro the air to produce.....
carbon dioxide and/or water (hydrogen oxide)
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What is it called when substances chemically combine with oxygen ?
oxidation
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What is it called when substances loose oxygen
reduction
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What do combustion reactions involve ?
they involve oxidation
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When do fuels burn more rapidly ?
In pure oxygen rather than in air
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What are the properties of the reactants and products in a chemical reaction
they are all different
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What happens to atoms in a chemical reaction?
They are rearranged
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What happens to the number of atoms at the start (the reactants) and at the end (the products) in a chemical reaction?
nothing is gained nor lost ( the conservation of mass)
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What pollutants are caused when burning fossil fuels in power stations and in transport
carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, particulate carbon
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What pollutants are caused when burning fossil fuels in power stations and in transport (incomplete combustion)
carbon monoxide, particulate carbon
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When is Nitrogen monoxide formed ?
during the combustion of fuels in air
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methane +oxygen ------>
carbon dioxide +water
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air (nitrogen+oxygen) + fuel (mixture of hydrocarbons)----->
carbon dioxide, water, nitrogen, carbon monoxide, nitrogen monoxide, carbon particulates
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Where do atmospheric pollutants go ? carbon
particulate carbon is deposited on surfaces, making them dirty
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Where do atmospheric pollutants go ? Sulphur dioxide and Nitrogen dioxide
react with water and oxygen to produce acid rain
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Where do atmospheric pollutants go ? Carbon dioxide
used by plants to photosynthesis, dissolves in rain water and in sea water
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What are mainly compounds of hydrocarbons ?

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What is a hydrocarbon ?

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when fuels burn, atoms of carbon and/ or hydrogen from the fuel combine with oxygen fro the air to produce.....

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What is it called when substances chemically combine with oxygen ?

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