Chemistry GCSE
Raw materials
What Raw materials means in Chemistry GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Soda-lime glass is made from sand with sodium carbonate and calcium carbonate, while borosilicate glass is made from sand with boron trioxide.
Resources whose demand is reduced when material is recovered and reprocessed into a new product rather than discarded.
The materials needed to make new glass, which are saved by recycling glass.
Topics that use Raw materials
- Ceramics, polymers and composites (AQA GCSE)
- Ways of reducing the use of resources (AQA GCSE)
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- composite
- Composite materials
- Covalent cross-links
- Crude oil as the feedstock for most plastics
- Data interpretation
- Earth's finite raw materials
- Evidence-based decision making
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