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Fig. 8.2
Part of a questionnaire for finding students' interests in everyday life chemistry [
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]
Table 8.1
Results of the questionnaire (see Fig.
8.2
)
Great interest of boys
and girls
Food, alcohol, photo production, explosives, paper of wood
Great interest of girls
Cosmetics, treatment of waste, coloring textiles, medicines
Great interest of boys
Petrol and diesel, exhaust gas, rocket engines
Mixed interest of boys
and girls
Conservation, water pollution, air pollution, acid rain, recycling
of paper and glass, batteries, fuel cells, steel and metals, plastics
Very low interest
of boys and girls
Bathroom cleaner, washing powder, cement and mortar, fertilizers,
pollution of soil, over fertilization, waste oil and treatment,
galvanization, metal alloys, sulfuric acid, sugar from sugar beets,
salt from salt mines.
