All Fuels articles – Page 3
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Experiment
Cracking hydrocarbons on a microscale
Use this microscale experiment to illustrate hydrocarbon cracking using paraffin, bromine water and aluminium oxide. Includes kit list and safety instructions.
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Resource
Solar Fuels and Artificial Photosynthesis
A variety of infographics (diagrams) explaining photosynthesis, artificial photosynthesis, and the production and uses of solar fuels.
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Feature
What ignited the Hindenburg?
We look at the theories behind the cause of the German airship disaster
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Experiment
Combustion of ethanol
Illustrate the large energy changes that take place during the combustion of alcohols with this spectacular demonstration. Includes kit list and safety instructions.
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Feature
MOFs head to market
The most porous manmade materials, metal–organic frameworks, are pushing towards commercialisation. Elinor Hughes tracks their progress
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Feature
Is thorium the perfect fuel?
Mike Follows discusses the advantages nuclear reactors fuelled by liquid thorium salts may offer over the ones currently used to power homes and businesses
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Exhibition chemistry
Cannon fire
Declan Fleming shows you how to capture your students’ imaginations with spectacular demonstrations
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Feature
Terpenes: not just for Christmas
The chemicals that give Christmas trees their pine fresh smell could be at the centre of a chemical revolution, as Josh Howgego explains
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Exhibition chemistry
Ethanol rockets
Putting the energy from the 'methanol whoosh bottle experiment' to good use
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Resource
On This Day - Feb 02 : Leaded petrol was marketed
Before the serious health hazards were known, an organolead compound with the formula (CH3CH2)4Pb was mixed with petrol to increase the power and fuel economy of cars. The advantages of this type of petrol eventually led to a universal switch to leaded fuel.
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Resource
On This Day - Dec 11 : Explosion at Buncefield
Although the accident did not cause any fatalities, the immense scale of the explosion made it Europe’s biggest fire in peacetime.
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Exhibition chemistry
Ethyne and flying food cans
Demonstrations designed to capture the student's imagination
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The Mole
A day in the life of a research chemist at BP: Oliver WiIliams
Oliver Williams has been working as a chemistry at the BP Technology Centre at Pangbourne for nearly two years on their graduate rotation scheme. He talks to Akshat Rathi about his typical day
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Exhibition chemistry
Exploding soap bubbles
Soap bubbles containing a mixture of oxygen and methane can be used to produce spectacular explosions and impressive shock-waves that will always please
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