All RSC Education articles in Non-EiC content – Page 89
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Chemistry for the gifted and talented book introduction
Chemistry for the gifted and talented is a refreshingly challenging educational book containing a wide range of differentiated activities for use in school and college.
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Chemistry and Art: Venice: The Stonemason's Yard
In this picture we find an early use of a newly synthesised colour - Prusslan blue.
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Chemistry and Art: The Virgin and Child before a Firescreen
The cleaning of this painting presented particular problems as two sections had been added, probably in the 19th century.
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Chemistry and Art: Winter Landscape
Scientific examination of this painting and its apparent ‘twin’ in Dortmund has given clear indications as to which one is the original.
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Chemistry and Art: Saint John the Baptist
This painting is a good example of the use of egg tempera paint and gilding. When it was cleaned in 1981-2, the materials used were analysed, and some of the results are discussed.
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Chemistry and Art: The Incredulity of Saint Thomas
Possible poor workmanship on the original panel, combined with an immersion in the Grand Canal in Venice, led to more than 100 years of conservation problems with this painting.
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Chemistry and Art: Portrait of Alexander Mornauer
Additions and alterations to this picture may have been a deliberate attempt to make it look like the work of a famous artist and thereby increase its value.
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Chemistry and Art: Boating on the Seine
This artist had access to a wide range of new colours made by chemists in the 19th century.
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Chemistry and Art: An Experiment on a Bird
This large and dramatic painting shows an early scientific experiment in progress, and is included here more for the science in the painting than the science of making or conserving the painting.
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Chemistry and Art: Bacchus and Ariadne
It was not uncommon for canvas paintings to be rolled up for ease of transport. However, this painting seems to have been rolled the wrong way - with the paint on the inside. This led to problems of flaking. Its restoration gave opportunities to study Titian’s methods and materials.
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Chemistry and Art: An Allegorical Figure
X-ray photographs of this panel painting showed that there had been substantial changes to the composition made at an early stage. Were these by Tura, or was he painting over a picture made by someone else?
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Carbon - the element with several identities
The student worksheet includes information about Sir Harry Kroto, one of the team who discovered the third allotrope of carbon, buckminsterfullerene.
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What happens when things burn?
This resource presents chemists as real people and not stereotypical ‘mad scientists’ whose lives are completely dominated by science.
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The plastic that came out of thin air
The story of Roy Plunkett and the discovery of Teflon® (polytetrafluoroethene) can be used to show that many things in science were discovered accidentally.
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Norbert Rillieux and the sugar industry
This material is divided into two distinct pieces of work: Sparkling white crystals of sugar and Extracting sugar from sugar beet.
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The atom detectives
This resource presents chemists as real people and not stereotypical ‘mad scientists’ whose lives are completely dominated by science.
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World wide web treasure hunt
This book can be used to address aspects of communication skills, or can be run as a complete module. This section focuses on information retrieval.
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Scientific papers
This book can be used to address aspects of communication skills, or can be run as a complete module. This section focuses on comprehension and problem solving.
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The fluorofen problem
The exercises in this book can be used to address aspects of communication skills, or can be run as a complete module. This section focuses on team work.
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Poster presentations
This book can be used to address aspects of communication skills, or can be run as a complete module. This section focuses on poster presentations.