All Analysis articles
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Job profileSenior laboratory technician
Olivia uses analytical techniques to ensure that food products meet legislative requirements for consumers.
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Analytical chemistry in Ireland
Worksheets, project-based learning tasks and contextualisation stories to develop a core understanding of analytical chemistry
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How to solve a murder
Combine chemical analysis and practical activities to crack a crime and engage younger students
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Same molecule, different representations
Chemistry is full of varied representations. How do we help our students identify the information encoded within them?
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Meteorite chemistry
What is a meteorite made of? Studying the composition of meteors allows scientists to look back billions of years to before the birth of the solar system
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‘You don’t need to choose between the arts and science’
Meet Katherine Curran, a chemist applying her polymer know-how to the conservation of plastic museum objects
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Plastic conservation
Usually we want plastics to degrade, so what about when we don’t? How chemists are helping museums preserve plastics
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Toxins in food
Many foods contain toxins such as oxalic acid. How do we balance the risks and benefits to health?
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Liquefying paint – retrieval practice and quick-fire questions
Encourage your 16–18 students to make connections between topics with this scaffolded approach
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The chemistry of chemical weapons
In this activity you will look at the chemistry behind a number of chemical weapons that have been employed throughout history
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Water found in asteroid dust
Water detected in samples from an asteroid’s surface for the first time
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Transition metal chemistry starters (16–18)
Help your students become proficient in answering questions on the transition metals with these Starter for ten questions including redox titrations, colourimetry, and catalysis.
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Structure determination starter (16–18)
Practice interpreting 1H and 13C NMR, mass spectra, and thin layer chromatograms with these Starter for ten questions.
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Analysis starters (16–18)
Practice using analysis skills with these mass spectrometry and infra-red spectroscopy Starter for ten questions.
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Chromatography: Techniques
Learn about two fundamental techniques underpinned by chromatography: high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS)
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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy: Hydrogen
Numclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is particularly useful in the identification of the positions of hydrogen atoms (1H) in molecules. This is an invaluable technique in the identification of organic compounds and commonly used in analytical laboratories
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Ultraviolet–visible (UV-vis) spectroscopy: Explanation of colour
Why do some compounds appear certain colours? The electron configuration of transition metal complexes is essential in understanding their behaviour. Understand the theory of how d-orbitals influence colour through their shape and crystal field splitting
