All Applications of chemistry articles – Page 15
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ResourceNBC Learn: Chemistry Now
This resource includes both videos and worksheets. The website makes links to everyday contexts in which chemistry is important. This material would provide enrichment to lessons using contemporary chemical examples.
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ResourceChemistry Now: Computational Chemistry
A case study of the development of derivatives of cinnamic acid as a repellent to dissuade birds from eating crops treated with it.
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ResourceFaces of Chemistry – National Gallery
These videos look at how chemical techniques have helped solve the mystery of the Portrait of Alexander Mornauer.
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ResourcePollutant detection and remediation
Case-study involving the development of adsorption and photocatalysis experiments to study the removal of a pollutant from waste-water. This resource and its components are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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ResourceChemistry in your Bathroom resource
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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ResourceFaces 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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ResourceWash 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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ResourceFaces 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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Lesson planMurder 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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ResourceTitanium Dioxide Photocatalysis: A New Kind of Water Treatment
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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ResourceTitanium Dioxide Photocatalysis: Uses of Titanium Dioxide
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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ResourceWhich 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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ResourceNatural 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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ResourceFight 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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ResourceParabens 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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ResourceForensic Analysis: Laboratory Manual
Pre laboratory exercises and laboratory practicals in Forensic Analysis.
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ResourceFaces of Chemistry – Catalysts
Find out from scientists at Johnson Matthey how catalytic converters reduce harmful emissions produced by vehicles.
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ResourceFaces of Chemistry – Hair colourant
Learn about the chemistry of hair dyes from Procter and Gamble scientists.
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ResourceOn This Day - Dec 07 : First thermosetting plastic
“Bakelite” (polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolan- hydride) takes its name from its inventor, the Belgian chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland.