All Analysis articles – Page 4
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ResourceThe salt cellar mystery
Introducing the world of forensic science; gathering chemical and fingerprint evidence to solve a crime.
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Chemistry stinks
Jacob Cox, Simon Rees and Peter Banks describe educational techniques linking the sense of smell with memory
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On 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.
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Why titrate?
A chemistry teacher wanted to know why professional chemists carry out titrations …
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Analysis of cave paintings
In this practical, student gain an understanding of how cave painters may have used the natural rock formation to paint the animals and scenes onto them and how later painters have continued with this tradition.
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HPLC-free synthesis slashes protein production time
Tagging system may make building biologically relevant proteins faster, cheaper and greener
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Chemistry and food security
This context/problem-based learning (C/PBL) resource is part of a collection we have commissioned for you to use with your undergraduate students. This 5 credit module is based on the following scenario: This resource will give your students an introduction to food safety and DNA analysis. It is based ...
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To boldly go where no analytical instrument has gone before
Nina Notman meets the chemist behind the mass spectrometer onboard the Philae lander
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Six solutions
Devise experiments to label six numbered solutions correctly using chemicals and apparatus in the laboratory.
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Three white solids
Devise experiments to label three white solids correctly by using chemicals and apparatus in the laboratory.
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What compound?
Identify a given solid; make a list of all of the compounds the solid could be, suggest as many ways as possible of identifying the solid and use this information to devise an analytical procedure; use this procedure to identify the solid.
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Four solutions
Devise experiments to label some bottles correctly, using two different approaches.
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Which set of ionic compounds?
Devise a procedure to identify four solids and then use this to carry out the identification.
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Find the chloride
Devise experiments to determine which of five solids is the chloride by using chemicals and apparatus in the laboratory.
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Carbon and copper oxide
Two unnamed black solids are known to be either copper(II) oxide or carbon. Devise three or more methods of labelling them correctly using chemicals and apparatus in the laboratory, test each method and compare them to decide which is best.
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A black solid
Devise experiments to identify a black solid sample by using chemicals and apparatus in the laboratory.
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Five white solids
Label five white solids correctly by using chemical tests and any suitable apparatus.
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Streamwatch - a UK water analysis science project
The resource provides access to a water analysis kit and instructions on how to use these. Using this resource provides teachers with great potential to engaging students and enable them to see the purpose and benefits of chemical analysis. The resource could be used for project work and is ...
