All Properties of matter articles – Page 18
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ResourceOn This Day – Jul 01 : Charles Goodyear died
He was the inventor of vulcanized rubber, a baked mixture of rubber and sulfur (S) that creates a strengthened compound. The process reinvented rubber as a useful substance that could withstand the variations of day-to-day temperatures. Rubber alone freezes in winter and melts in summer.
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ResourceOn This Day - Nov 10 : Ernst Otto Fischer was born
He was the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1973 for determining the structure of ferrocene (Fe(C5H5)2), a single iron (Fe) atom sandwiched between two five-sided carbon rings. There are many analogues of ferrocene, which together have led to the rapid growth of organometallic chemistry.
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The MoleBreaking Bad IV – can a little crystal blow up a room?
On screen chemistry with Jonathan Hare
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ResourceOn 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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ResourceOn 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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ResourceOn 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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ResourceOn 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 Mole100 years of superconductivity
Superconductivity was discovered in 1911, Deirdre Black looks back
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Exhibition chemistryDissolving copper in nitric acid
The dramatic reaction between copper and nitric acid ought to be seen
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Exhibition chemistryFloating Gas Bubbles
Demonstrations designed to capture the student's imagination
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The MoleBreaking Bad – poisoning gangsters with phosphine gas
On screen chemistry with Jonathan Hare
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FeatureRadium - 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 MoleHouse party: could you float a house with helium balloons?
On screen chemistry with Jonathan Hare
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