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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Slashing emissions with polymer fashion
2021-04-16T08:36:00Z
Show students the high performance fabric that’s made from waste plastic and is cutting the carbon footprint of the fashion industry

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‘Life would be unrecognisable without plastic’ | 11–16 years
A worksheet including three classroom activities to evaluate the role plastic plays in everyday life
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Puzzling polymers | 14–16 years
A matching activity worksheet using clues to identify and name repeating polymers based on their chemical structure
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Explaining observations in energetics quiz
2021-04-14T05:59:00Z
Get your 11–14 students applying their rates of reactions knowledge to new contexts