All Physical chemistry articles – Page 8
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ResourceThe Flatlandian periodic table
Explore a new perspective on chemistry with Flatlandian principals, to create Flatlandia’s periodic table.
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ResourceGas volume
Calculate the gas volume created through the reaction of metals with acids. Includes kit list and safety instructions.
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ResourceFizzy drinks’ froth
Explore hypothesis testing in this experiment using fizzy drinks. Includes kit list and safety instructions
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ResourceAfter meal puzzle
Use ingenuity and science to solve the riddle of lifting ice with string. Includes kit list and safety instructions.
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The MoleHow to make light by crushing sugar
Discover how stretching, scratching or crushing some materials can produce light, and try a quick experiment to demonstrate this effect using sugar.
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ResourceAnodising titanium
Explore how the colour of titanium metal covered with titanium dioxide varies with the thickness of titanium dioxide.
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ResourcePost-16 thermodynamics tutorials
Thinking about how to teach thermodynamics? Try these tutorials, including videos and animations, to help post-16 students learn about the key topics.
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ResourceJust Add Water: Part 2
A series of fun, engaging, short chemistry demonstrations about water, taken from a lecture by Dr. Peter Wothers of the University of Cambridge. Video: Just Add Water: 11 - Carbohydrates Video: Just Add Water: 12 - Dehydrating Sugar Video: Just ...
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NewsMagnetic nanocubes self-assemble into spirals
Tiny cubes of magnetite form superstructures under a magnetic field
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ResourceEnthalpy and the chemistry of matches | Chemistry Olympiad worked answers
Try this worked example of a Chemistry Olympiad question on enthalpy change and the chemistry behind matches. Includes video walkthrough and transcript.
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NewsCalculations predict new form of phosphorus
Flat layers of ‘blue phosphorus’ may have ideal properties for nano-electronics
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The MoleTrade secrets... Neon lights, flicker bulbs and chaos
Secrets of the trade: Jonathan Hare shines a light on randomness
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ResourceOn This Day - Mar 01 : Jacobus van't Hoff died
He was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901 for his discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions.
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ResourcePollutant detection and remediation
Case-study involving the development of adsorption and photocatalysis experiments to study the removal of a pollutant from waste-water. This resource and its components are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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ReviewChemistry3
This book introduces the three traditional areas of inorganic, organic and physical chemistry. It is aimed at those in the first year of UK university chemistry courses.
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The MoleMake your own spectroscope
Find out how to build your own spectroscope using an old DVD to explore colour and the splitting of light in this article from the ‘Avogadro’s lab’ series.