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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CPD
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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News
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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CPD
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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Experiment
Turning copper coins into ‘silver’ and ‘gold’
Perform what looks like alchemy with ordinary copper coins in this teacher demonstration. Includes kit list and safety instructions.
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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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Feature
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.
