Posted by Peter Ceresole on November 05, 2013 at 16:05:43 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Amazon school- was: Lakeland Cam posted by Roger Wardale on November 05, 2013 at 00:12:58:
I looked up GCSE Chemistry to find that qualitative analysis is included in the syllabus
It certainly was in the prehistoric time when I did the Oxford and Cambridge combined board GCE. I remember doing titrations and being taught 'meniscometry'- how to read a meniscus to get a consistent result. I always enjoyed that side of chemistry. Not sure about the strong acids, although they could be quite exciting. The problem with acids was that the tiniest drop would wreck you shirt cuffs...
My grand-dad was a chemist who worked at the turn of the century in the dye-stuffs division at I.G. Farben. During the war (1st) he'd refused to do war work (he was Swiss) until the Germans began to use poison gas. Then he went to work managing an explosives factory in America. But I never knew him (men on average died earlier then) and there was no genetic predisposition; I passed GCE chemistry but not very gloriously, and always preferred physics.