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Roman art - wall painting techniques

Pompeii and Herculaneum have been described as towns frozen in time. Houses and villas with their furniture, food, people, jewellery and pets have been preserved. One thing that strikes all visitors to Pompeii and Herculaneum is the amount of colour on the walls of the buildings. It is perhaps the most obvious feature of Roman art.
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Roman commerce in pigments

Did the Romans use the same materials as the Greeks in their painting? And where did the pigments come from?
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Ancient Roman art: an imitation of Greek art?

A traditionally accepted view of ancient Roman art is they borrowed from, and copied, Greek precedents. The picture, however, is more complex and recent archaeological research indicates Roman art is highly creative.
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Verdigris copper

In this experiment, students deliberately corrode copper, to produce a pigment called verdigris. Students can then explain their observations using their knowledge of redox reactions.
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How to make a lake pigment paint

Use this experiment to show your learners how to make and analyse the properties of a lake pigment paint
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Magic writing with sodium nitrate solution

In this experiment, students write a hidden message using invisible ink and watch what happens when a glowing splint touches their message.
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Herschel infrared experiment

In this experiment, students measure the temperature thermometers reach as they are placed throughout (and beyond) the spectrum of visible light.
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Invisible inks

In this experiment, students test a variety of substances to see if they can be used as an invisible ink.
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Spinning colour top

In this experiment, students observe, describe and explain what happens when a multicoloured disc spins at a high speed.
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Making a rainbow

In this experiment, students observe what happens to white light as it passes through water droplets.
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Were Ancient Greek statues white or coloured?

Renaissance artists studied the sculptures and monuments of Greece and Rome and emulated them in their own work, ie they imitated the art. This perspective of art has echoed down the centuries to influence the appearance of Western art and architecture today.
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The Titan project

This problem-based case study concerns the location of a titanium dioxide plant and evaluation of analytical methods. Students are asked to act as the management team at the plant and produce a five-year plan for the site.
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QuantiCorp R&D: new products

In association with The National HE STEM Programme

This C/PBL resource involves an investigation into catalysis and conducting polymers for the production of biosensors. Students are challenged to develop a biosensor based on a conducting polymer in the context of an R&D department in a high-tech company.
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The chemistry of energy: case study

In association with The National HE STEM Programme

This resource is a group case study which guides students through some of the key chemical aspects of power generation, the distribution of energy and the relationship between science and policy. It’s a contextualised introduction to the application of several key chemical concepts such as thermodynamics to real world situations. ...
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Oil sands process water: diamonds not so forever

In association with The National HE STEM Programme

This C/PBL resource is designed to help students discover what organic chemicals are present in the waste water which is produced during the processing of oil sands, and analytically assess these potentially toxic organic chemicals.
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Chemistry's interfaces: geochemical

In association with The National HE STEM Programme

This C/PBL resource is an introduction to geochemistry in the context of the geological and archaeological record. It is based on the following question: What would the geochemical record of human activities and civilisation be in the geochemical record of the future?
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Design your own fireworks show

This C/PBL resource asks undergraduate students to design, organise and run a simluated fireworks display. It is intended to support the development of key transferable skills in a discipline-specific context and requires some basic undergraduate chemistry knowledge. This resource includes an activity pack containing worksheets, briefing papers and presentations, allowing ...
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When chewing gum loses its flavour

In association with The National HE STEM Programme

This probelm-based learning resource is designed to help students to develop approaches which might lead to the discovery of what some of the unwanted tastes and smells in a specific foodstuff and how the causes of these could be tested for using analytical chemistry techniques. Chewing gum has been ...
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Oral communication skills - Presentation exercise

This resource focuses on oral presentations and outlines an exercise students can do to develop their oral communication skills. The scenario used in the exercise is giving a presentation as part of a company’s annual review process.
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Hwuche-Hwuche bark

Communication skills are an essential part of all university degree courses. In general, communication skills are developed throughout undergraduate courses via a range of activities and many departments already have substantial parts of their course aimed at transferable skills. The book ‘Communicating Chemistry’ contains a number of exercises that can ...