All Analytical chemistry articles – Page 2
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Resource
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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Feature
How chemists are stopping paint drip
Analytical chemistry is playing an important role in discovering why some 20th century paintings have started to liquefy
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Ideas
Escape the classroom: and explore colour change reactions
In this escape room article, students explore colour change reactions to reveal hidden codes
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Interview
‘Science doesn’t always work in the way you expect it to’
Meet Lee Goodwin, a bioanalytical chemist who helps unpick what our bodies do with the drugs they are given, such as antivirals as treatment for Covid-19
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Practical
Identifying ions – practical videos | 14–16 students
Video resource showing how to identify ions in various solutions. Flame tests, sodium hydroxide test (microscale) and tests for negative ions: carbonate, sulfate and halide ions
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Paper chromatography | Practical videos | 14–16 students
Video resources showing how to carry out paper chromatography and how to calculate RF values
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Experiment
Kitchen roll chromatography
Coloured inks can be a mix of a few different colours, and with chromatography, learners can actually see which colours come together to make that coloured ink. This experiment includes a kit list, and safety instructions.
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Ideas
Learning at home for 16–18
Use these curriculum-relevant resources and activities remotely with your 16–18 classes
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Ideas
Strategies for six-mark questions
Get your students practising answering these within the time limit
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News
Smartphones modified to detect norovirus
Handheld detection system is sensitive enough to catch just a few particles of norovirus
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Feature
Freeing the world from chemical weapons
Chemists have helped destroy 97% of declared banned substances, finds Andy Extance, and are pushing to get the rest
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News
Poly(ionic liquid)s act like taste buds for simple sugars
New system could find use in food monitoring or disease detection
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News
Dirty stirrer bars can act as phantom catalysts
Contaminated stirrer bars could be ruining experiments that are sensitive to tiny amounts of metal catalysts
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News
Water found in asteroid dust
Water detected in samples from an asteroid’s surface for the first time
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App quantifies chemicals in thin-layer chromatography
A simple web app converts thin-layer chromatography into a quantitative analytical technique
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Resource
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.
