All Matter articles
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Top of the bench 2019: materials practical challenge
Test students’ understanding of materials chemistry and recycling using this practical activity from our Top of the bench competition
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Top of the bench 2019: materials (younger paper)
Test students’ understanding of materials chemistry using these questions from our Top of the bench competition
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Top of the bench 2019: materials (older paper)
Test students’ understanding of materials chemistry using these questions from our Top of the bench competition
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News
Probing difficulties with quantum atomic models
What you can do to make grasping atomic representations easier
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Opinion
Why chemistry won’t be solved
Kit Chapman explains why chemistry is still a vibrant and relevant subject for study
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States of matter and particle theory
Progressing from macroscopic to the microscopic world of the particle
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Exhibition chemistry
An icebreaker for thermodynamics
Your students can learn a lot of chemistry from watching water freeze
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News
Catalyst makes liquid fuels from renewable resources
A step closer to producing fuels for trucks and airplanes from biomass
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Chemists weave granny and triple trefoil knots
Giant molecules with a carbon backbone by synthetic chemistry
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The structure of ice and water
A worksheet exploring the structural differences between the solid and liquid versions of this most ubiquitous compound.
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Elements Top Trumps
You can use the Top Trumps TM as a fun way to introduce the elements in the periodic table. In the game, players compare numerical properties of the elements. Each of the 30 cards represents an element, and has has data on the element’s melting point, density, price, discovery ...
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Evaporation, filtration and crystallisation
How to add variety and context to lessons while getting students familiar with apparatus
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Feature
Molecular motors power on
From rotating alkenes to artificial muscle – specification links and resources will help you bring this cutting-edge story to your classroom
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Turning copper coins into 'silver' and 'gold'
Perform something close to alchemy by dipping a ‘copper’ coin into a solution of sodium zincate in contact with zinc to make it appear silver, before holding it in a Bunsen flame for a few seconds to form an alloy of brass making it appear gold.
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Use the particle model of matter
How well does the simple particle model of matter explain observations of changes of state?
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A fluid idea, with holes
Nina Notman talks to the chemists who are making the seemingly implausible materials coined ‘porous liquids’
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Olympic Materials
These resources allow students to explore how changes in materials technology can bring about changes to sporting equipment.
