Chemistry Rocks: Redox chemistry as a geologic tool

by: Mary Sue Burns

Teachers can use students’ interest in the color in rocks as a starting point for a redox chemistry lesson. In this activity, each group of students examines one or more of the rocks. By matching a rock’s color to a form of iron allows students to hypothesize what environment was present when the rock was formed.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 9/1/2001Stock # tst01_068_06_30Volume 068Issue 06

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