All Energy articles – Page 3
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ResourceEnergy transfer: primary science podcasts
Join Kareena and her superhero friend K-mistry for this short podcast introducing children to appliances that run on electricity.
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Heat transfer and insulation: primary science podcasts
Join Kareena and her superhero friend K-mistry for this short podcast introducing children to thermal conductors and insulators.
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Sensational states: kitchen science podcasts
Introduce your students to changes of state with this short podcast.
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Thermochromic materials
A hidden use of chemistry in everyday life includes thermochromic materials that change colour when exposed to heat or cold
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Insulation and conduction: That’s Chemistry!
The ‘Insulation and conduction’ chapter from That’s Chemistry!: This chapter looks at key ideas and activities that can be used to help students learn how materials have different properties, including whether they are conductors or insulators of heat and/or electricity.
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Burning: That’s Chemistry!
The ‘burning’ chapter from That’s Chemistry! This chapter looks at key ideas and activities that can be used to help students learn that when materials are burned new materials are formed, and that this process in not reversible.
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News
Solar-powered desalination produces energy
Nanocomposite helps to produce drinking water and fuel
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What makes it go?
Carry out certain experiments in a given order. Then without doing any calculations, explain what the driving force of the reaction is in each case – ie qualitatively rather than quantitatively.
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Experiment
Chemiluminescence of luminol: a cold light experiment
Show how the energy of a chemical reaction can be given out as light by revealing how a solution of sodium chlorate(I) oxidises an aqueous solution of luminol (3-aminophthalhydrazide) to produce a blue chemiluminescent glow – without any increase in temperature.
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Rechargeable first for promising battery tech
New cathode material makes for energetic, rechargeable sodium–carbon dioxide batteries that could power Mars vehicles
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Beyond appearances
Reviews of research on students’ misconceptions in conceptual areas of chemistry. Misconceptions are described and discussed, together with indications of their origins.
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News
New photocatalyst shows promise
Nickel-based material can convert carbon monoxide into high-value hydrocarbons
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Experiment
A hydrogen powered rocket
Try this spectacular demonstration to make a rocket using a plastic drink bottle fuelled by hydrogen and air. Includes kit list and safety instructions.
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The ‘whoosh’ bottle demonstration
This exciting demonstration is a combustion reaction where a mixture of alcohol and air in a large bottle is ignited. Includes kit list and safety instructions.
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Faces of Chemistry – Organic solar cells
Explore the chemistry of organic photovoltaics (organic solar cells) as a scientist from BASF explains the technology used in the Smart Forvision car.
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Making biodiesel │16–18 years
Practical work on making a biodiesel, as well as worksheets covering alkenes, infrared spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, calculations on biodiesel yields, ester/biodiesel production and thermochemistry
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Soundbite
Breathing batteries for electric cars
Nina Notman discovers how air could power the transport of the future
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