All Higher education articles – Page 6
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Business Skills for Chemists
Develop key business and entrepreneurial skills using these course materials and self-study resources for undergraduate chemistry students.
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Chemistry3: introducing inorganic and physical chemistry
Andrew Burrows, John Holman, Andrew Parsons, Gwen Pilling and Gareth Price
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Investigating Crystal Structures
Sixthformers are introduced to Madelung constants as a way of investigating ionic crystal structures
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Intuitive thinking and learning chemistry
Understanding students' intuitions about the world could provide insight into their misconceptions of chemical concepts
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Build your own spectrophotometer
By designing and building their own visible-light spectrophotometers, students get to grips with the underlying principles of this widely used analytical tool
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Phenols in medicine
Phenol encountered in school or college chemistry laboratories demands special respect on account of its toxic and corrosive nature. But phenol and its derivatives do have a few medicinal surprises
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Chemistry, medicine and genetic analysis
In the near future, doctors will be able to carry out a 'while you wait' test, using genetic analysis, for chlamydia, the silent disease that can lead to infertility in women.