Letters - September 2010

By Education in Chemistry2010-09-01T00:00:00

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Poetic licence, Any Pioneering ancestors? and Corrigenda

Poetic licence

Chloe Parnell, by e-mail

I am writing after having just returned to the UK after teaching chemistry in New Zealand for a year. During this year, I began writing chemistry poems that mirrored teaching and learning topics. The great thing about them is they often use rhyming to illustrate key points or provide the students an easy way of remembering often tricky concepts. The poem reproduced below is entitled The difficulty with remembering the difference between amphiprotic and amphoteric:

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