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Cleaning by chemical reaction

Text Cleaning by chemical reaction

TLF ID M025825

This resource provides a scaffold for students to undertake a simple experiment. Learn how museum conservators clean, and prevent deterioration and damage to silver artefacts using chemistry. In this resource, students clean a piece of silverware using the electrolysis of silver technique which incorporates redox reactions, reactivity of metals, rates of reaction, catalyst, and presence of an electrolyte.

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Educational value
  • Teaching and learning
Year level

10

Topics Chemical reactions Creating texts Hydroplanes Data representation Reaction rates Experiments Discussions (Texts) Explanations (Scientific inquiry)
Learning area
  • Science

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  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: Queensland Museum
  • Organization: Queensland Museum
  • URL: www.qm.qld.gov.au
  • Publisher
  • Name: Queensland Museum
  • Organization: Queensland Museum
  • Description: Publisher
  • URL: www.qm.qld.gov.au
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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  • Text
Rights
  • © Queensland Museum. The images included in this teaching resource may be used for non-commercial, educational and private study purposes. They may not be reproduced for any other purpose, in any other form, without the permission of the Queensland Museum.