Equations, Moles and Calculations

It is important for chemists to know how much of a chemical is present when a reaction is carried out. Getting it right can mean the difference between a safe reaction and an explosion. The resources on this page are about supporting students’ understanding of inter-converting mass, molar mass and number of moles and ensuring that they are able to use equations quantitatively. Students may also need to be able to calculate or understand the concentration of a solution in moles per cubic decimetre or be able to do calculations involving volumes of gas.

Several will also be relevant to acids, alkalis and titrations.

Specification links: Edexcel 360 C3.3, OCR Gateway C5, OCR 21st Century Science C7.4, WJEC 3.3.

If you cannot find what you want in the listed resources, enter keywords from your specification in the Search box on the right. Reduce the number of ‘hits’ by using inverted commas to search for phrases.

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Edexcel (Showing 5 of 6 available)

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OCR Gateway (Showing 4 of 6 available)

  • Moles
    htm  Web link 
    AQA 13.1, Edexcel C3.3, OCR Gateway, C5a, WJEC C3.3 Interactive webpage from the gcsescience.com website, with links to notes and explanations of the concepts associated with the mole. Easy-going styl...

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    AQA 13.1, Edexcel C3.3, OCR Gateway C5a, WJEC C3.3 Notes on chemical calculations, introducing the connection between moles, mass and formula mass. Plenty of examples and questions, with links to self...

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WJEC (Showing 3 of 5 available)

  • Moles
    htm  Web link 
    AQA 13.1, Edexcel C3.3, OCR Gateway, C5a, WJEC C3.3 Interactive webpage from the gcsescience.com website, with links to notes and explanations of the concepts associated with the mole. Easy-going styl...

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Learning Resource (Showing 5 of 7 available)

  • Moles
    htm  Web link 
    AQA 13.1, Edexcel C3.3, OCR Gateway, C5a, WJEC C3.3 Interactive webpage from the gcsescience.com website, with links to notes and explanations of the concepts associated with the mole. Easy-going styl...

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    htm  Web link 
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  • Ionic Equations
    htm  Web link 
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  • Doc Brown: Moles, Mass and Formula Mass
    htm  Web link 
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