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To: WildTurkey

Combustion is taught as a chemical reaction, we never screwed around with Bohr models learning combustion, just a simple matter of what chemicals are present that make something combustible and what chemicals are emitted during combustion.

there you go again, taking things to far. I'm not demanding COMPLETE teaching, only teaching that lacks LIES. Once more for the logic impared:
Simplification by omission - perfectly acceptable
Simplification by substitution -lies

No lies in the class room. Kids can learn combustion without having to learn about Schrodingers Wave and Conservation of Mass, well they need to learn a little about conservation of mass but not much. What they shouldn't learn about combustion is a post dated theory that we now know is bunk. There's no reason to learn combustion via phlogiston or Bohrs model, because neither of them is actually learning.


283 posted on 01/20/2005 7:49:38 PM PST by discostu (mime is money)
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To: discostu
Combustion is taught as a chemical reaction, we never screwed around with Bohr models learning combustion, just a simple matter of what chemicals are present that make something combustible and what chemicals are emitted during combustion.

You were never taught about electron bonding, valent and co-valent electrons, or reaction tables to determine how to determine which chemicals would react with which? That is the basics of combustion.

285 posted on 01/20/2005 7:56:00 PM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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To: discostu
Kids can learn combustion without having to learn about Schrodingers Wave and Conservation of Mass,

Then they are taught lies that they will have to un-learn later in their studies. If you don't understand Eienstein's theories, you don't understand combustion.

287 posted on 01/20/2005 7:57:31 PM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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To: discostu
Conservation of Mass, well they need to learn a little about conservation of mass but not much.

Ah, the Law of Conservation of Mass. Another one of those LIES taught in school. Mass is NOT conserved during combustion. I bet that really flipped you when you learned that!

314 posted on 01/20/2005 9:35:05 PM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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