Anecdotes for Chemistry Teachers: In the Limelight

The background and chemistry of burning calcium with hydrogen and oxygen to make ‘limelight’.

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Anecdotes: Aluminium
The story of the discovery of the Hall-Heroult process for purifying aluminium.
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On This Day - Jan 27 : In 1880, Thomas Edison was granted a patent for the electric lamp
The first electric carbon arc lamp was invented by Sir Humphrey Davy of England in 1801. However it wasn’t until 1880 that the discovery of the longer lasting electric lamp really changed the way we live.
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Applying practical knowledge to unfamiliar contexts
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Prepare students to use their learning in different situations

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Time-of-flight calculations
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Use these resources to familiarise 16–18 students with the maths involved in time-of-flight calcuations
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Essential chemistry of pharmaceuticals
Explore the role of chemistry in drug discovery with this worksheet
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Determining relative atomic weights
Heat a known mass of two metals to produce their oxides and determine their relative atomic masses.