Introduction
Inspiring Gases is the BOC Education Programme – a family of exciting teaching resources all describing ‘gases and their properties’ and their commercial exploitation in industry, medicine, environmental management, transportation and other key areas of human endeavour.
Safety information
You can print out some very helpful safety data sheets, which contain facts about gases and liquified gases.
Educational Gases
If you would like help with locating gas supplies for classroom use please send full details to enquiries@boc.ebcnet.co.uk.
Evaluation
BOC is eager to know if the Inspiring Gases family of teaching resources is of value to teachers, and to hear their ideas about future needs and developments. If you would like to contact us please email enquiries@boc.ebcnet.co.uk.
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Gases in the atmosphere
All elements of Inspiring Gases support teaching for the three leading science examination boards at GCSE and A Level (Edexel, OCR and AQA) including:
Gases in Chemistry
- Gases and the periodic table
- The atomic structure of gases
- Gases symbols and formulae
- Gases and chemical reactions, including the rates of reaction, temperature and reaction rates, concentrations and dilution
- Particles, reaction rates
- Catalysts
- Noble gases (and possibly halogens)
Gases in action
- Air separation
- BOC business case studies (these will replace old case studies with new material written directly related to the following topics using content researched via Science Ambassadors)
- Gases the food industry, especially cryogenics, aeration and vacuum
- Gases in steel production
- Vacuum applications in semiconductor production
- Various applications of the noble gases
- Hydrogen, oxygen and their application in fuel cells
- Gases and their role in environmental improvement
