All Analysis articles – Page 4
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ResourceSpectroscopy resource packs
Use this material either alongside our Spectroscopy in a Suitcase scheme, or as a stand-alone resource to learn about spectroscopy. Cover the principles of spectroscopic techniques, and use real-life contexts to demonstrate their applications. This Resource contains: Introductory material for each spectroscopic technique which has been written by teachers. A ...
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ExperimentTesting salts for anions and cations
A full range of chemicals will guide students into discovering how to identify the composition of unknown substances. Includes kit list and safry instructions.
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ExperimentFlame tests (the wooden splint method)
Find a new method to perform flame tests using wooden splints soaked in chlorides. Includes kit list and safety instructions.
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ExperimentExtracting limonene from oranges
Limonene is found in oranges, and now your classroom. Create a distillation apparatus and support students to make their own plant oils. Includes kit list and safety instructions.
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ExperimentTesting for negative ions
Guide students into testing for negative ions with this practical. Students note their own observations and use their knowledge to discover more. Includes kit list and safety instructions.
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ResourceChallenging Plants: Soil Science - Practicals
The nature of soil particles (inorganic and organic) and of soil water affects plant growth and, in particular, the availability of nutrients essential for the growth of quality crops in high yield. An understanding of the media in which plants grow helps scientists to exploit their potential.
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ExperimentEnergy content in foods
Try this class experiment to investigate how much energy different foods contain. Includes kit list and safety instructions.
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ResourceChemistry at the races book
This book looks into detecting drugs in race horses using various different analytical techniques and drug metabolism.
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ResourceThe effect of cooking on vitamin C in cabbage | 16–18 years
Plan a titration experiment to discover more about the changes in vitamins and enzymes during cooking. Includes kit list and safety instructions
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ResourceNew drugs for old: pharmaceuticals
This is a problem-based case study looks at the isolation, identification and synthesis of a pharmaceutical drug. Students are involved in screening natural herbal remedies for their active ingredients.
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ResourceChallenging Medicines: Analysing Medicines - Practicals
Experiments that involve the colorimetric analysis of medicines and can be applied to other activities.
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ResourceA model of mass spectrometry
Use this modelling activity to explore your students’ understanding of the process of fragmentation in mass spectrometry.
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FeatureKnow your poison: the festival chemical safety net
How analytical chemistry helps reduce the harms of drug use
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ResourceSchools’ Analyst past papers 2017
Test your students’ practical skills with these Schools’ Analyst past papers from 2017 covering skills such as making standard solutions.
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Lesson planThe salt cellar mystery
Support learners to investigate using chemistry, with the salt cellar mystery. Includes kit list, safety instructions and session timings
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FeatureChemistry stinks
Jacob Cox, Simon Rees and Peter Banks describe educational techniques linking the sense of smell with memory
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ResourceOn This Day - Nov 07 : Raman was born
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for his work on the scattering of light and the discovery of the Raman effect. This effect is the change in the wavelength of light when a light beam is deflected by molecules. Raman spectroscopy has since become a key tool for chemical characterisation.