Sec Sch Chapter 23 Alcohols and Acids
Evidence of alcoholic beverages has also been found dating from 5400–5000 BC in Hajji Firuz Tepe in Iran, 3150 BC in ancient Egypt. Early evidence of distillation comes from Akkadian tablets dated c. 1200 BC describing perfumery operations, providing textual evidence that an early, primitive form of distillation was known to the Babylonians of ancient Mesopotamia. Early evidence of distillation also comes from alchemists working in Alexandria, Roman Egypt, in the 1st century.
Most students will simply think of a drink or a swab when hearing the word alcohol, but they will never think of the various types of alcohols produced from organic molecules such as alkanes and alkenes and so on. All of which will be taught to students with this chapter. Given that the chapter is extremely content heavy, most students will find themselves struggling to keep up with the teachers in class. And that is where this course comes in. This course will help a student understand and grasp the concepts being taught to them in class and reinforce said concepts through various quizzes and tests taken from schools around Singapore, allowing any student to be eventually triumph and toast their victory over the challenging chapter.