All Matter articles – Page 2
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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.
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Olympic composites (secondary level)
A composite is a mix of two or more materials which often have very different properties. Find out about composites used in sport equipment material.
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Olympic Medals
Discover the chemistry and history behind the Gold, Silver and Bronze Olympic medals.
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News
Sun shines for iron catalyst to convert carbon dioxide to methane
Step on the road to sustainable fuel production as iron–porphyrin catalyst comes through under mild conditions
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Precipitation
Chemistry is a conceptual subject and, in order to explain many of these concepts, teachers use models to describe and explain the microscopic world and relate it to the macroscopic properties of matter. This resource is designed to provide strategies for dealing with some of the misconceptions that students have ...
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Iron - a metal
Chemistry is a conceptual subject and, in order to explain many of these concepts, teachers use models to describe and explain the microscopic world and relate it to the macroscopic properties of matter. This resource is designed to provide strategies for dealing with some of the misconceptions that students have ...
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Changes in chemistry
Chemistry is a conceptual subject and, in order to explain many of these concepts, teachers use models to describe and explain the microscopic world and relate it to the macroscopic properties of matter. This resource is designed to provide strategies for dealing with some of the misconceptions that students have ...
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Predicting the melting temperature of carbon
Chemistry is a conceptual subject and, in order to explain many of these concepts, teachers use models to describe and explain the microscopic world and relate it to the macroscopic properties of matter. This resource is designed to provide strategies for dealing with some of the misconceptions that students have ...
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News
Purest silicon sphere ever created will redefine the kilogram
Largest impurity is copper taking the place of one silicon atom in every three billion
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Bismuth drug structure solved
After over three centuries of mystery, the structure of bismuth subgallate has finally been uncovered
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Sugar rush: edible experiments
Why is fudge gooey and why are hard boiled sweets hard? Discover the importance of chemistry in everyday eating experiences with this edible experiment.
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Temper, temper: edible experiments
Why is tempering chocolate so important? Discover the importance of chemistry in everyday eating experiences with this edible experiment.