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Weird and wonderful water

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Why the universal solvent is unlike any other liquid and its properties are still a mystery

Education in Chemistry

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How to build understanding of Gibbs free energy

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Help your students master this fundamental post-16 topic with these effective tips and teaching strategies

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8 ways to boost student understanding with examples and non-examples

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Help students fully grasp tough chemistry concepts by using example sets to explain them

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How to teach combustion and oxidation at 11–14

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Use these 5 tried-and-tested tips to teach combustion safely and effectively

  • Reversible reactions with transition metal complexes

  • Demonstrate changes of state using volume differences

  • Creating a supersaturated gas evolving oscillator

  • Demonstrate intermolecular forces with colourful separations

  • Brew up interest in redox with this quick reduction

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How to banish misconceptions with a green chemistry curriculum

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Evidence-informed tips on how a greener approach can improve problem-solving abilities and address misconceptions

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Overcoming electrochemistry misconceptions

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Use evidence-based research and teacher-tested tips to help your students master this challenging topic

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How to use textbooks effectively

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Discover why not all chemistry textbooks are created equal – and what you can do about it

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The realities of reintroducing assignments in Scotland

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Teacher Laura Scoular considers what this means for teachers and students

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Share your Covid story

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Tell us how you found lockdown, remote teaching, social distancing – your whole experience of the Covid-19 pandemic

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Why AAQs are the future

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Discover the diverse and enriching new post-16 study pathways, available from 2025

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  • Everything you need to teach atomic structure and periodicity at post-16

  • How to teach reversible reactions and equilibrium at 14–16

  • How to teach post-16 transition metals and complex ions

  • Everything you need to teach energetics at 14–16

  • How to teach electrochemistry at post-16

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Making ammonia production greener

Could lasers offer a more sustainable alternative to the Haber process

A diagram showing the nucleus of and atom that starts as Fluorine 29 and loses a proton to become Oxygen 28 which then loses four neutrons to become Oxygen 24

Scientists discover the heaviest oxygen isotope

Help learners delve into atomic structure and isotopes with this research context 

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Tackling global demand for lithium one string at a time

Crystalising lithium salts on strings could be the key to supplying the vast volume needed for a net-zero world

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The effect of human leisure on water pollution

From cocaine to antihistamines, the surprising mix of chemicals detected after a day out at the river

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