All Resource articles – Page 29
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Workers with Disabilities
This resource provides guidance on risk assessment and control measures for workers with disabilities in the context of chemistry laboratories.
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SDS Resource
This resource provides information on safety data sheets and where to find the information that you need in order to carry out your lab work safely.
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Lone Working
This resource provides guidance on lone and out-of-hours working in the context of chemistry laboratories.
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New & Expectant Mothers
These modules provide guidance on how to assess the risks and implement control measures for new and expectant mothers who work with chemicals.
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Laboratory Waste
This resource provides guidance on the segretation, disposal and treatment of waste produced in chemistry laboratories.
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Laboratory Best Practices
This resource describes laboratory best practices. It covers general rules for the laboratory, handling chemical hazards and the maintenance of equipment.
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COSHH Resource
This guidance provides laboratory chemists with the basic knowledge and practical advice needed to carry out a COSHH assessment.
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Accidents and Emergencies
This resource provides guidance on dealing with accidents and emergencies in chemistry laboratories. This resource is not comprehensive and is not intended to replace first aid training or procedures.
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Designing an organic synthesis
View a summary of how to approach the synthesis of an organic compound, focussing on the construction of key bonds. Follow an example multistep synthesis using standard organic transformations, answering questions along the way. This page is suitable for students beginning organic chemistry. Designing an organic synthesis This page is ...
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On This Day - Feb 27 : Aspirin was patented
Aspirin, also known as acetylsalicylic acid, was initially used as a painkiller. Aspirin is also used as a preventative medicine against strokes, blood clots and heart attacks due to its antiplatelet effect
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Sustainable development and green chemistry
The Inspirational chemistry chapter ‘Sustainable development and green chemistry’. This chapter suggests games, activities, practicals and demonstrations that prompt students to think critically about how to make every day processes more environmentally friendly and sustainable.
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On This Day - Jan 25 : Robert Boyle was born
He famously discovered that the volume of a gas is inversely proportional to its pressure (Boyle’s Law) and, together with Robert Hooke, invented the vacuum chamber. Boyle was also a founding member of the Royal Society.
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On This Day - Jan 18 : Edward Frankland was born
Frankland introduced the theory of valence when he realised that atoms can only form a certain number of bonds to other atoms. He also co-discovered helium (He), pioneered organometallic chemistry, and was a leader in the field of water purification.
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Found in the ground
Give your pupils the knowledge and the opportunity to classify materials according to rocks, minerals and fossils.
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Virtual rock kit
A collection of common sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rocks. Each rock has images showing particle arrangements, the rock after weathering, hand sized specimens and the rock in use.
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Materials cards
Spark awareness of the properties and purposes of materials, while teaching terms like ‘permeable’, ‘transparent’ and ‘magnetic’.
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OPAL - Open Air Laboratories citizen science
Taking part in OPAL, by Imperial College London you’ll discover more about climate science, the important issues we face, and what action to take.