All Properties of matter articles – Page 18
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On This Day - Jun 06 : Richard Smalley was born
Smalley shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl Jr. and Harold Kroto for the discovery of the fullerenes. These are forms of carbon that are either spherical (buckminsterfullerene), tubular (carbon nanotubes) or planar (graphene).
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On This Day - Nov 30 : Smithson Tennant was born
He discovered iridium (Ir) and osmium (Os), the latter named for the unpleasant odour of some of its compounds (from the Greek word ‘osme’ meaning odour). He also proved that diamonds are pure carbon.
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On This Day - Dec 19 : Thomas Andrews was born
He received the Royal Medal from the Royal Society in 1844 for his Philosophical Transactions paper on “the thermal changes accompanying basic substitutions” that had been published earlier in the same year.
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On This Day - Nov 14: First fullerene discovered
The new forms of the element carbon (C) were discovered by Robert Curl, Richard E. Smalley and Sir Harold W. Kroto. This opened up a new field of chemistry with applications including nanotechnology. They were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for this work.
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The Mole
100 years of superconductivity
Superconductivity was discovered in 1911, Deirdre Black looks back
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Exhibition chemistry
Dissolving copper in nitric acid
The dramatic reaction between copper and nitric acid ought to be seen
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Exhibition chemistry
Floating Gas Bubbles
Demonstrations designed to capture the student's imagination
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The Mole
Breaking Bad – poisoning gangsters with phosphine gas
On screen chemistry with Jonathan Hare
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Radium - a key element in early cancer treatment
An early example of how blue skies research by Pierre and Marie Curie led to the treatment of previously incurable cancers
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The Mole
House party: could you float a house with helium balloons?
On screen chemistry with Jonathan Hare
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Printing on plastic
The dye diffusion thermal transfer method is used for printing digital photos on plastics, and for direct printing on PVC cards
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Lesson plan
Reacting iron and sulfur to explore compounds | 11-14 years
Investigate the reaction between iron and sulfur and practise modelling chemical changes in this lesson plan with activities for 11–14 year olds.