All Properties of matter articles – Page 7
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FeatureA fluid idea, with holes
Nina Notman talks to the chemists who are making the seemingly implausible materials coined ‘porous liquids’
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ResourceOlympic materials Primary
This resource allows primary school students to explore the difference between a natural material and a synthetic material. The Materials used in different sports for the Olympic Games is then explored.
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ResourceOlympic materials: technology and sports equipment
These resources allow students to explore how changes in materials technology can bring about changes to sporting equipment.
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ResourceOlympic composites: sports equipment and composite materials
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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ResourceOlympic composites (primary level)
Find out what composites are made up of and why they are so important sporting equipment for the Olympics.
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ResourceWater sports and solutions
Life is in aqueous solution - and so is much of sport. Find out why the properties of water are vital to the sports men and women who compete in, on, and around water.
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ResourceThe Wonders of the Olympic Torch
Learn about the history and design of the Olympic torch and the journey it takes to the Olympics opening ceremony.
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ResourceOlympic Medals
Explore the history of the Olympic medals, what they represent, and their chemical properties.
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ResourceChemistry and Sport - weightlifting
Find out why chalk is as important in weightlifting as it is in tennis, rock climbing, and even fire-fighting.
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ResourceChallenging Medicines: Physiochemical Properties - Practicals
Practical experiments associated with the handouts for Physiochemical Properties. Investigating the dissolution, pKₐ and rates of hydrolysis of everyday tablets are covered.
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Exhibition chemistryClarifying compounds and mixtures
Declan Fleming clears up confusion in a puff of purple vapour
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FeatureKnow your poison: the festival chemical safety net
How analytical chemistry helps reduce the harms of drug use
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IdeasMapping compound structure and bonding
How everyday compounds’ properties can be linked to their bonding and structure with a ‘structure triangle’
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ResourceChemical misconceptions II: Iron - a metal
Judge the veracity of twenty statements about one of the most familiar examples of a metal, iron, and understand more about its structure.
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ResourceChemical misconceptions II: Precipitation
Discover more about ionic bonding, and how dissolving into solutions can effect bonds.
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ResourceChemical misconceptions II: Predicting the melting temperature of carbon
Explore and explain the melting temperature of carbon, and the relationship between structure and properties.
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NewsBismuth drug structure solved
After over three centuries of mystery, the structure of bismuth subgallate has finally been uncovered