All RSC Education articles in March 2016
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Review
Inquiry-based learning for multidisciplinary programs: a conceptual and practical resource for educators
Integrating IBL into the curricula
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CPD
Practical organic chemistry
David Everett describes some difficulties with the topic and shows how you could help your students
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Feature
Learning to write in chemistry
Michael Seery highlights the importance of carefully-designed writing activities in enabling students to build their scientific writing skills
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Feature
A centre of excellence
What can be learned from the Bristol ChemLabS centre for excellence in teaching and learning 10 years on? Timothy Harrison, Nicholas Norman and Dudley Shallcross explain
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Feature
The bonds that bind
Mike Sutton plots the journey of the scientists who solved the riddle of chemical bonding
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Magnificent molecules
Zirconium tungstate
Neil Withers investigates a compound with some unusual and unexpected behaviour
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News
Snow soaks up pollutants from engine exhausts
Air quality regulators should consider freezing temperatures and snow
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News
Periodic table gains four new elements
Teams in Japan, Russia and the US credited with discoveries
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Feature
What does the word chemical mean to you?
Katherine Haxton discusses a recent survey about the public’s perception of chemistry
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News
Boron nitride composites stronger than their carbon cousins
Binding strengths of polymer–boron nitride nanotubes are higher than those reported for carbon nanotubes
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News
Polymer takes the heat out of batteries
Polymer electrode coating may help prevent lithium battery fires
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Soundbite
Hydrogen falls apart under pressure
Nina Notman learns that the simplest element in the universe is actually quite complex when put under pressure
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Exhibition chemistry
Nailing corrosion demonstrations
Declan Fleming presents an experiment to illustrate the electrochemistry of rusting