AQA GCSE 8462 Chemistry specification: every spec point and its video lesson
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| Spec | Statement | Lesson | YT search phrase |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.1.1.1AQA 8462 | Atoms, elements and compounds | Atoms, elements and compounds | ScholaFly CH01-01 |
| Writing formulae, and word and symbol equations | ScholaFly CH06-01 | ||
| 4.1.1.1aAQA 8462 | Atoms, elements and compounds | Writing balanced ionic equations (Higher) | ScholaFly CH06-06 |
| Half equations at the electrodes (Higher) | ScholaFly CH11-06 | ||
| 4.1.1.2AQA 8462 | Mixtures | Mixtures, and choosing a separation technique | ScholaFly CH03-03 |
| 4.1.1.3AQA 8462 | The development of the model of the atom (common content with physics) | How the model of the atom changed | ScholaFly CH01-07 |
| 4.1.1.4AQA 8462 | Relative electrical charges of subatomic particles | Protons, neutrons and electrons | ScholaFly CH01-02 |
| 4.1.1.5AQA 8462 | Size and mass of atoms | How big an atom is | ScholaFly CH01-03 |
| Atomic number, mass number and isotopes | ScholaFly CH01-04 | ||
| 4.1.1.6AQA 8462 | Relative atomic mass | Relative atomic mass from isotopic abundances | ScholaFly CH01-05 |
| 4.1.1.7AQA 8462 | Electronic structure | Electronic structure of the first twenty elements | ScholaFly CH01-06 |
| 4.1.2.1AQA 8462 | The periodic table | The periodic table: groups, periods and position | ScholaFly CH02-01 |
| Predicting an element's reactions from its position | ScholaFly CH02-08 | ||
| 4.1.2.2AQA 8462 | Development of the periodic table | How the periodic table was developed | ScholaFly CH02-02 |
| 4.1.2.3AQA 8462 | Metals and non-metals | Metals and non-metals | ScholaFly CH02-03 |
| 4.1.2.4AQA 8462 | Group 0 | Group 0: the noble gases | ScholaFly CH02-07 |
| 4.1.2.5AQA 8462 | Group 1 | Group 1: the alkali metals | ScholaFly CH02-04 |
| 4.1.2.6AQA 8462 | Group 7 | Group 7: the halogens | ScholaFly CH02-05 |
| Halogen displacement reactions | ScholaFly CH02-06 | ||
| 4.1.3.1AQA 8462 | Comparison with Group 1 elements | The transition metals (triple) | ScholaFly CH02-09 |
| 4.1.3.2AQA 8462 | Typical properties | The transition metals (triple) | ScholaFly CH02-09 |
| 4.2.1.1AQA 8462 | Chemical bonds | The three types of strong bond, and spotting each structure | ScholaFly CH04-01 |
| 4.2.1.2AQA 8462 | Ionic bonding | Ionic bonding and dot-and-cross diagrams | ScholaFly CH04-02 |
| 4.2.1.3AQA 8462 | Ionic compounds | The ionic lattice | ScholaFly CH04-03 |
| What our models of structure leave out | ScholaFly CH04-06 | ||
| Empirical formula | ScholaFly CH07-02 | ||
| 4.2.1.4AQA 8462 | Covalent bonding | Covalent bonding and dot-and-cross for small molecules | ScholaFly CH04-04 |
| Diamond and silicon dioxide: giant covalent structures | ScholaFly CH05-05 | ||
| Graphite: why it is soft and why it conducts | ScholaFly CH05-06 | ||
| 4.2.1.5AQA 8462 | Metallic bonding | Metallic bonding | ScholaFly CH04-05 |
| 4.2.2.1AQA 8462 | The three states of matter | The three states of matter and the particle model | ScholaFly CH03-01 |
| Predicting a substance's state from its bonding | ScholaFly CH05-01 | ||
| 4.2.2.1aAQA 8462 | The three states of matter | The limits of the simple particle model (Higher) | ScholaFly CH03-02 |
| 4.2.2.2AQA 8462 | State symbols | State symbols in chemical equations | ScholaFly CH06-04 |
| 4.2.2.3AQA 8462 | Properties of ionic compounds | Why ionic compounds melt high and conduct when molten | ScholaFly CH05-02 |
| 4.2.2.4AQA 8462 | Properties of small molecules | Why small molecules melt low and do not conduct | ScholaFly CH05-03 |
| 4.2.2.5AQA 8462 | Polymers | Polymers: recognising one, and why polymers are solids | ScholaFly CH05-04 |
| 4.2.2.6AQA 8462 | Giant covalent structures | Diamond and silicon dioxide: giant covalent structures | ScholaFly CH05-05 |
| Graphite: why it is soft and why it conducts | ScholaFly CH05-06 | ||
| 4.2.2.7AQA 8462 | Properties of metals and alloys | Why metals conduct and bend, and why an alloy is harder | ScholaFly CH05-08 |
| Alloys: why alloying works, and the common alloys (triple) | ScholaFly CH10-07 | ||
| 4.2.2.8AQA 8462 | Metals as conductors | Why metals conduct and bend, and why an alloy is harder | ScholaFly CH05-08 |
| 4.2.3.1AQA 8462 | Diamond | Diamond and silicon dioxide: giant covalent structures | ScholaFly CH05-05 |
| Graphite: why it is soft and why it conducts | ScholaFly CH05-06 | ||
| 4.2.3.2AQA 8462 | Graphite | Diamond and silicon dioxide: giant covalent structures | ScholaFly CH05-05 |
| Graphite: why it is soft and why it conducts | ScholaFly CH05-06 | ||
| 4.2.3.3AQA 8462 | Graphene and fullerenes | Graphene, fullerenes and carbon nanotubes | ScholaFly CH05-07 |
| 4.2.4.1AQA 8462 | Sizes of particles and their properties | Nanoparticles: size and the surface area to volume ratio (triple) | ScholaFly CH05-09 |
| 4.2.4.2AQA 8462 | Uses of nanoparticles | Nanoparticles: what they are used for and the risks (triple) | ScholaFly CH05-10 |
| 4.3.1.1AQA 8462 | Conservation of mass and balanced chemical equations | Conservation of mass, and balancing a symbol equation | ScholaFly CH06-03 |
| 4.3.1.2AQA 8462 | Relative formula mass | Relative formula mass, and percentage by mass | ScholaFly CH07-01 |
| 4.3.1.3AQA 8462 | Mass changes when a reactant or product is a gas | Why the mass seems to change when a gas is involved | ScholaFly CH06-05 |
| 4.3.1.4AQA 8462 | Chemical measurements | Uncertainty: the range about the mean of repeat readings | ScholaFly CH21-02 |
| 4.3.2.1AQA 8462 | Moles | The mole and the Avogadro constant (Higher) | ScholaFly CH07-04 |
| 4.3.2.2AQA 8462 | Amounts of substances in equations | Calculating a mass from a balanced equation | ScholaFly CH07-05 |
| 4.3.2.3AQA 8462 | Using moles to balance equations | Using masses to deduce the stoichiometry of an equation (Higher) | ScholaFly CH07-06 |
| 4.3.2.4AQA 8462 | Limiting reactants | Limiting reactants (Higher) | ScholaFly CH07-07 |
| 4.3.2.5AQA 8462 | Concentration of solutions | Concentration of a solution in grams per dm3 | ScholaFly CH07-03 |
| 4.3.2.5aAQA 8462 | Concentration of solutions | Concentration of a solution in grams per dm3 | ScholaFly CH07-03 |
| 4.3.3.1AQA 8462 | Percentage yield | Percentage yield, and the theoretical mass of a product (triple) | ScholaFly CH08-03 |
| 4.3.3.1aAQA 8462 | Percentage yield | Percentage yield, and the theoretical mass of a product (triple) | ScholaFly CH08-03 |
| 4.3.3.2AQA 8462 | Atom economy | Atom economy (triple) | ScholaFly CH08-04 |
| 4.3.3.2aAQA 8462 | Atom economy | Choosing a reaction pathway for an industrial product (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly CH14-06 |
| 4.3.4AQA 8462 | Using concentrations of solutions in mol/dm 3 | Concentration in moles per dm3 (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly CH08-01 |
| Titration calculations (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly CH09-09 | ||
| 4.3.5AQA 8462 | Use of amount of substance in relation to volumes of gases | The molar gas volume (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly CH08-02 |
| 4.4.1.1AQA 8462 | Metal oxides | Oxidation and reduction in terms of oxygen | ScholaFly CH10-01 |
| 4.4.1.2AQA 8462 | The reactivity series | The reactivity series | ScholaFly CH10-02 |
| 4.4.1.3AQA 8462 | Extraction of metals and reduction | Extracting a metal from its ore | ScholaFly CH10-03 |
| 4.4.1.4AQA 8462 | Oxidation and reduction in terms of electrons | Oxidation and reduction as electron transfer (Higher) | ScholaFly CH10-04 |
| 4.4.2.1AQA 8462 | Reactions of acids with metals | Acids reacting with metals | ScholaFly CH09-03 |
| 4.4.2.1aAQA 8462 | Reactions of acids with metals | Oxidation and reduction as electron transfer (Higher) | ScholaFly CH10-04 |
| 4.4.2.2AQA 8462 | Neutralisation of acids and salt production | Deducing a formula from its ions | ScholaFly CH06-02 |
| Neutralisation, and the salts that acids make | ScholaFly CH09-02 | ||
| 4.4.2.3AQA 8462 | Soluble salts | Making a soluble salt from an acid and an insoluble solid | ScholaFly CH09-04 |
| 4.4.2.4AQA 8462 | The pH scale and neutralisation | Acids, alkalis and the pH scale | ScholaFly CH09-01 |
| Neutralisation, and the salts that acids make | ScholaFly CH09-02 | ||
| 4.4.2.5AQA 8462 | Titrations | Titration: the technique | ScholaFly CH09-06 |
| 4.4.2.5aAQA 8462 | Titrations | Concentration in moles per dm3 (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly CH08-01 |
| Titration calculations (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly CH09-09 | ||
| 4.4.2.6AQA 8462 | Strong and weak acids | Strong and weak acids, dilute and concentrated (Higher) | ScholaFly CH09-07 |
| pH, hydrogen ion concentration and the tenfold rule (Higher) | ScholaFly CH09-08 | ||
| 4.4.3.1AQA 8462 | The process of electrolysis | What electrolysis is: electrolytes, ions and electrodes | ScholaFly CH11-01 |
| 4.4.3.1aAQA 8462 | The process of electrolysis | Half equations at the electrodes (Higher) | ScholaFly CH11-06 |
| 4.4.3.2AQA 8462 | Electrolysis of molten ionic compounds | Electrolysis of a molten ionic compound | ScholaFly CH11-02 |
| 4.4.3.3AQA 8462 | Using electrolysis to extract metals | Extracting aluminium by electrolysis | ScholaFly CH11-05 |
| 4.4.3.4AQA 8462 | Electrolysis of aqueous solutions | Electrolysis of aqueous solutions | ScholaFly CH11-03 |
| 4.4.3.5AQA 8462 | Representation of reactions at electrodes as half equations | Half equations at the electrodes (Higher) | ScholaFly CH11-06 |
| 4.5.1.1AQA 8462 | Energy transfer during exothermic and endothermic reactions | Exothermic and endothermic reactions | ScholaFly CH12-01 |
| 4.5.1.2AQA 8462 | Reaction profiles | Reaction profiles and activation energy | ScholaFly CH12-02 |
| 4.5.1.3AQA 8462 | The energy change of reactions | Breaking bonds costs energy, making bonds releases it | ScholaFly CH12-03 |
| Calculating an energy change from bond energies (Higher) | ScholaFly CH12-04 | ||
| 4.5.2.1AQA 8462 | Cells and batteries | Chemical cells and batteries (triple) | ScholaFly CH12-05 |
| 4.5.2.2AQA 8462 | Fuel cells | Fuel cells (triple) | ScholaFly CH12-06 |
| 4.5.2.2aAQA 8462 | Fuel cells | Fuel cells (triple) | ScholaFly CH12-06 |
| 4.6.1.1AQA 8462 | Calculating rates of reactions | Measuring and calculating the rate of a reaction | ScholaFly CH13-01 |
| 4.6.1.1aAQA 8462 | Calculating rates of reactions | Rate at a specific time: the gradient of a tangent | ScholaFly CH13-02 |
| 4.6.1.2AQA 8462 | Factors which affect the rates of chemical reactions | The factors that change the rate, and collision theory | ScholaFly CH13-03 |
| 4.6.1.3AQA 8462 | Collision theory and activation energy | The factors that change the rate, and collision theory | ScholaFly CH13-03 |
| 4.6.1.4AQA 8462 | Catalysts | Catalysts | ScholaFly CH13-04 |
| 4.6.2.1AQA 8462 | Reversible reactions | Reversible reactions and dynamic equilibrium | ScholaFly CH14-01 |
| 4.6.2.2AQA 8462 | Energy changes and reversible reactions | Reversible reactions and dynamic equilibrium | ScholaFly CH14-01 |
| 4.6.2.3AQA 8462 | Equilibrium | Reversible reactions and dynamic equilibrium | ScholaFly CH14-01 |
| 4.6.2.4AQA 8462 | The effect of changing conditions on equilibrium | Le Chatelier's principle, and changing the concentration (Higher) | ScholaFly CH14-02 |
| Changing the temperature and the pressure on an equilibrium (Higher) | ScholaFly CH14-03 | ||
| 4.6.2.5AQA 8462 | The effect of changing concentration | Le Chatelier's principle, and changing the concentration (Higher) | ScholaFly CH14-02 |
| Changing the temperature and the pressure on an equilibrium (Higher) | ScholaFly CH14-03 | ||
| 4.6.2.6AQA 8462 | The effect of temperature changes on equilibrium | Le Chatelier's principle, and changing the concentration (Higher) | ScholaFly CH14-02 |
| Changing the temperature and the pressure on an equilibrium (Higher) | ScholaFly CH14-03 | ||
| 4.6.2.7AQA 8462 | The effect of pressure changes on equilibrium | Le Chatelier's principle, and changing the concentration (Higher) | ScholaFly CH14-02 |
| Changing the temperature and the pressure on an equilibrium (Higher) | ScholaFly CH14-03 | ||
| 4.7.1.1AQA 8462 | Crude oil, hydrocarbons and alkanes | Crude oil: what it is and where it comes from | ScholaFly CH15-02 |
| Homologous series and functional groups | ScholaFly CH15-05 | ||
| 4.7.1.2AQA 8462 | Fractional distillation and petrochemicals | Why carbon forms so many compounds | ScholaFly CH15-01 |
| Fractional distillation, and what the fractions are used for | ScholaFly CH15-03 | ||
| 4.7.1.3AQA 8462 | Properties of hydrocarbons | How a hydrocarbon's properties change with chain length | ScholaFly CH15-04 |
| Complete combustion of a hydrocarbon | ScholaFly CH15-07 | ||
| 4.7.1.4AQA 8462 | Cracking and alkenes | Cracking | ScholaFly CH15-06 |
| Reactions of the alkenes, and the bromine water test (triple) | ScholaFly CH16-02 | ||
| 4.7.2.1AQA 8462 | Structure and formulae of alkenes | Alkenes and the carbon-carbon double bond (triple) | ScholaFly CH16-01 |
| 4.7.2.2AQA 8462 | Reactions of alkenes | Reactions of the alkenes, and the bromine water test (triple) | ScholaFly CH16-02 |
| 4.7.2.3AQA 8462 | Alcohols | Alcohols (triple) | ScholaFly CH16-03 |
| Making ethanol by fermentation (triple) | ScholaFly CH16-04 | ||
| Oxidising an alcohol, and predicting from the functional group (triple) | ScholaFly CH16-06 | ||
| 4.7.2.4AQA 8462 | Carboxylic acids | Carboxylic acids (triple) | ScholaFly CH16-05 |
| 4.7.2.4aAQA 8462 | Carboxylic acids | Strong and weak acids, dilute and concentrated (Higher) | ScholaFly CH09-07 |
| Carboxylic acids (triple) | ScholaFly CH16-05 | ||
| 4.7.3.1AQA 8462 | Addition polymerisation | Addition polymerisation (triple) | ScholaFly CH17-01 |
| 4.7.3.2AQA 8462 | Condensation polymerisation | Condensation polymerisation (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly CH17-02 |
| 4.7.3.3AQA 8462 | Amino acids | Amino acids and polypeptides (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly CH17-03 |
| 4.7.3.4AQA 8462 | DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and other naturally occurring polymers | The natural polymers: DNA, starch, cellulose and proteins (triple) | ScholaFly CH17-04 |
| 4.8.1.1AQA 8462 | Pure substances | Pure substances, and spotting an impurity from a melting point | ScholaFly CH03-04 |
| 4.8.1.2AQA 8462 | Formulations | Formulations | ScholaFly CH03-05 |
| 4.8.1.3AQA 8462 | Chromatography | Chromatography and Rf values | ScholaFly CH03-06 |
| 4.8.2.1AQA 8462 | Test for hydrogen | The tests for hydrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and chlorine | ScholaFly CH18-01 |
| 4.8.2.2AQA 8462 | Test for oxygen | The tests for hydrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and chlorine | ScholaFly CH18-01 |
| 4.8.2.3AQA 8462 | Test for carbon dioxide | The tests for hydrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and chlorine | ScholaFly CH18-01 |
| 4.8.2.4AQA 8462 | Test for chlorine | The tests for hydrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and chlorine | ScholaFly CH18-01 |
| 4.8.3.1AQA 8462 | Flame tests | Flame tests (triple) | ScholaFly CH18-02 |
| 4.8.3.2AQA 8462 | Metal hydroxides | Identifying metal ions with sodium hydroxide solution (triple) | ScholaFly CH18-03 |
| 4.8.3.3AQA 8462 | Carbonates | Identifying the anions: carbonate, halide and sulfate (triple) | ScholaFly CH18-04 |
| 4.8.3.4AQA 8462 | Halides | Identifying the anions: carbonate, halide and sulfate (triple) | ScholaFly CH18-04 |
| 4.8.3.5AQA 8462 | Sulfates | Identifying the anions: carbonate, halide and sulfate (triple) | ScholaFly CH18-04 |
| 4.8.3.6AQA 8462 | Instrumental methods | Instrumental methods of analysis (triple) | ScholaFly CH18-06 |
| 4.8.3.7AQA 8462 | Flame emission spectroscopy | Instrumental methods of analysis (triple) | ScholaFly CH18-06 |
| 4.9.1.1AQA 8462 | The proportions of different gases in the atmosphere | The atmosphere today, and the Earth's early atmosphere | ScholaFly CH19-01 |
| 4.9.1.2AQA 8462 | The Earth's early atmosphere | The atmosphere today, and the Earth's early atmosphere | ScholaFly CH19-01 |
| 4.9.1.3AQA 8462 | How oxygen increased | The atmosphere today, and the Earth's early atmosphere | ScholaFly CH19-01 |
| 4.9.1.4AQA 8462 | How carbon dioxide decreased | How the carbon dioxide decreased, and how fossil fuels formed | ScholaFly CH19-02 |
| 4.9.2.1AQA 8462 | Greenhouse gases | The greenhouse effect | ScholaFly CH19-03 |
| 4.9.2.2AQA 8462 | Human activities which contribute to an increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere | Human activity, climate change, and how good the evidence is | ScholaFly CH19-04 |
| 4.9.2.3AQA 8462 | Global climate change | Human activity, climate change, and how good the evidence is | ScholaFly CH19-04 |
| 4.9.2.4AQA 8462 | The carbon footprint and its reduction | The carbon footprint and how to reduce it | ScholaFly CH19-05 |
| 4.9.3.1AQA 8462 | Atmospheric pollutants from fuels | Incomplete combustion, and the pollutants a fuel gives off | ScholaFly CH15-08 |
| 4.9.3.2AQA 8462 | Properties and effects of atmospheric pollutants | What the atmospheric pollutants actually do | ScholaFly CH15-09 |
| 4.10.1.1AQA 8462 | Using the Earth's resources and sustainable development | Finite and renewable resources, and sustainable development | ScholaFly CH20-01 |
| 4.10.1.2AQA 8462 | Potable water | Potable water | ScholaFly CH20-02 |
| 4.10.1.3AQA 8462 | Waste water treatment | Treating waste water | ScholaFly CH20-03 |
| 4.10.1.4AQA 8462 | Alternative methods of extracting metals | Biological methods of extracting metals (Higher) | ScholaFly CH10-05 |
| 4.10.2.1AQA 8462 | Life cycle assessment | Life cycle assessment | ScholaFly CH20-05 |
| 4.10.2.2AQA 8462 | Ways of reducing the use of resources | Reducing, reusing and recycling | ScholaFly CH20-04 |
| 4.10.3.1AQA 8462 | Corrosion and its prevention | Corrosion, preventing rust, and electroplating (triple) | ScholaFly CH10-06 |
| 4.10.3.2AQA 8462 | Alloys as useful materials | Alloys: why alloying works, and the common alloys (triple) | ScholaFly CH10-07 |
| 4.10.3.3AQA 8462 | Ceramics, polymers and composites | Glass and clay ceramics (triple) | ScholaFly CH20-07 |
| Polymers, composites and choosing the right material (triple) | ScholaFly CH20-08 | ||
| 4.10.4.1AQA 8462 | The Haber process | The Haber process | ScholaFly CH14-04 |
| 4.10.4.1aAQA 8462 | The Haber process | Industrial conditions: the trade-off between rate, yield and cost (triple, Higher) | ScholaFly CH14-05 |
| 4.10.4.2AQA 8462 | Production and uses of NPK fertilisers | Fertilisers: NPK, in the laboratory and in industry (triple) | ScholaFly CH14-07 |
| 8.2.1AQA 8462 | Required practical 1: making a soluble salt | Practical: making a pure, dry sample of a soluble salt | ScholaFly CH21-05 |
| 8.2.2AQA 8462 | Required practical 2: acid-alkali titration | Practical: acid-alkali titration (triple) | ScholaFly CH21-11 |
| 8.2.3AQA 8462 | Required practical 3: electrolysis of aqueous solutions | Practical: electrolysis of aqueous solutions | ScholaFly CH21-07 |
| 8.2.4AQA 8462 | Required practical 4: temperature changes in reacting solutions | Practical: temperature changes in reacting solutions | ScholaFly CH21-08 |
| 8.2.5AQA 8462 | Required practical 5: how concentration affects rate | Practical: how concentration affects the rate of a reaction | ScholaFly CH21-09 |
| 8.2.6AQA 8462 | Required practical 6: paper chromatography | Practical: separating and identifying the dyes in an ink | ScholaFly CH21-03 |
| 8.2.7AQA 8462 | Required practical 7: identifying ions | Identifying an unknown salt from its test results (triple) | ScholaFly CH18-05 |
| Practical: identifying the ions in an unknown compound (triple) | ScholaFly CH21-12 | ||
| 8.2.8AQA 8462 | Required practical 8: analysis and purification of water | Practical: analysing and purifying a water sample | ScholaFly CH21-04 |