Chemistry A-Level
economic consequences
What economic consequences means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of economic consequences
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Reference: AQA
The cost runs in both directions: purifying the feedstock costs money, and so does buying replacement catalyst and shutting the plant down while it is changed.
Topics that use economic consequences
- Catalysts (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- active sites
- autocatalysis
- catalyst
- catalytic converters
- Haber process
- intermediate species
- ion repulsion and high activation energy
- iron catalyst
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