Tuesday 29 November 2011

Misconception

  Identify as many as possible the misconceptions that exist from  your group’s topic.
  For each misconception, describe its true science

  Misconception
The cause of Misconception
The true science
Pure metal are strong and hard
 In daily life,student experience       the metal hard when they touch them.
Pure metals are weak and soft because their atoms are of the same size and arranged closely to form layer of atom
 Most kitchen utensils are made of  pure metals
 At home, student  always consider the utensils of the kitchen as metals as they does not know the properties of alloy
Most kitchen utensils are made of alloy because alloy are harder and more resistant to rusts
A superconductor alloy can   operate at room temperature
They assume the fiber optics is a superconductor because fiber optics can operate at room temperature
A superconductor alloy can only operate at low temperature
The Haber process produce ammonium salt
They think Nitrogen and Hydrogen bond together to form ion.
 Haber process produce Ammonia