Required practical skills
What Required practical skills means in Chemistry GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Reference: AQA
Skills in measuring temperature, controlling variables, recording data and drawing conclusions about energy transfer, developed by investigating variables that affect temperature changes in reacting solutions.
Skills developed by warming dilute acid with a Bunsen burner, filtering the mixture and evaporating the filtrate to produce a pure, dry salt.
Topics that use Required practical skills
- Energy transfer during exothermic and endothermic reactions (AQA GCSE)
- Soluble salts (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Acid reactions with insoluble bases
- Bond breaking and bond making
- Conservation of energy
- Crystallisation
- Energy transfer
- Energy transfer in reactions
- Evaluating applications
- excess
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