Cambridge IGCSE Chemistry
11.6Alcohols
Alcohols in Cambridge IGCSE Chemistry: what the syllabus expects you to know, the learning objectives and how to practise.
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Learning objectives
What the syllabus expects you to be able to do.
- 11.6.1Describe the manufacture of ethanol by fermentation of aqueous glucose with yeast at 25–35 °C in the absence of oxygen, and by the catalytic addition of steam to ethene at 300 °C and 6000 kPa (60 atm) with an acid catalyst.
- 11.6.2Describe the combustion of ethanol.
- 11.6.3State that ethanol is used as a solvent and as a fuel.
- 11.6.4Supplement: describe the advantages and disadvantages of manufacturing ethanol by fermentation and by the catalytic addition of steam to ethene.
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Making ethanol
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Properties and uses of ethanol
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