All Applications of chemistry articles – Page 15

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Chemistry in your Bathroom resource

In association with CRODA

Discover how Croda products transform your bathroom from disarray to a fully functionable and clean bathroom with this resource explaining the chemistry behind these products. Please note that some aspects of the resource are no longer interactive/functional.
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Limestone in everyday life

This activity illustrates useful materials made from rocks.
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Faces of Chemistry – Women in Chemistry

Follow the adventures of eight leading women in chemistry and celebrate the common element that catalysed their journeys: a life-changing, chance-taking, thrill-seeking love of science.
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Wash Bag Chemistry

‘Wash Bag Chemistry’ has the potential to be a truly cross curricular activity. The Business Studies department in a school can take on the task of compiling the product reports and teaching the business outcomes that could be covered. The Art department could also be involved –pupils could design logos ...
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Faces of Chemistry – Packaging gases

Discover how scientists from BOC remove gases from the air and use them in food packaging and processing.
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Murder in the lab

Give students a flavour of analytical techniques used in forensic science. Find the kit list, safety instructions and suggested timings in the download
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Titanium Dioxide Photocatalysis: A New Kind of Water Treatment

In association with The Wolfson Foundation

Part of a series of resources investigating how using titanium dioxide as a photocatalyst can help to create cleaner water using sunlight.
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Titanium Dioxide Photocatalysis: Uses of Titanium Dioxide

In association with The Wolfson Foundation

Part of a series of resources investigating how using titanium dioxide as a photocatalyst can help to create cleaner water using sunlight.
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Which bleach is the best buy?

Which bleach is best? By investigating this question, learners will discover more about redox reactions. Includes kit list and safety instruction.
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Natural dyeing

Collect natural dyes for learners to use in the classroom. Exploring how dyes and indicators change the colour of different cloths.
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Fight fire! Fill up with foam | 11–14 years

How do firefighters do it? That’s the question your learners will explore in this investigation into carbon dioxide foam
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Parabens in household products

This is a laboratory-based investigation (either using GC or HPLC) of preservative chemicals commonly found in household products - parabens.
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Forensic Analysis: Laboratory Manual

Pre laboratory exercises and laboratory practicals in Forensic Analysis.
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Faces of Chemistry – Catalysts

Find out from scientists at Johnson Matthey how catalytic converters reduce harmful emissions produced by vehicles.
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Faces of Chemistry – Hair colourant

Learn about the chemistry of hair dyes from Procter and Gamble scientists.
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On This Day - Dec 07 : First thermosetting plastic

“Bakelite” (polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolan- hydride) takes its name from its inventor, the Belgian chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland.
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On This Day – Jul 01 : Charles Goodyear died

He was the inventor of vulcanized rubber, a baked mixture of rubber and sulfur (S) that creates a strengthened compound. The process reinvented rubber as a useful substance that could withstand the variations of day-to-day temperatures. Rubber alone freezes in winter and melts in summer.
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On This Day - Dec 29 : Discovery of heavy water

The American physical chemist found that heavy water is highly enriched in the hydrogen isotope deuterium (²H), and is used in many applications such as nuclear magnetic resonance, neutron moderation in nuclear power plants and organic chemistry.
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On This Day - Nov 21 : Hieronymus Richter was born

He was the co-discoverer of indium (In), an element used to form transparent electrodes in liquid crystal displays in computers, televisions and touch screens.
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On This Day - Oct 18 : Schoenbein was born

He accidentally discovered the powerful explosive nitrocellulose when he spilled sulfuric and nitric acids, and soaked them up with a cotton apron. When the apron dried, it burst into flame - he had created the highly flammable compound nitrocellulose.