Anecdotes for Chemistry Teachers: Making Aircraft from Seaweed

Creating a balsa wood substitute from calcium alginate for World War 2 aircraft production.

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Anecdotes: Aluminium

The story of the discovery of the Hall-Heroult process for purifying aluminium.
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Crude oil | Key terms support | 14–16

By Martin Bluemel, Catherine Smith, Louise Glynn and Rachel Burton

Language support pack for the introductory organic chemistry topic crude oil, including fractional distillation, properties of hydrocarbons, cracking and addition polymers
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Commercial applications of chromatography

2025-10-13T05:40:00Z By Catherine Smith

Show post-16 students how the analytical techniques they learn in the classroom have real-world applications with this poster and fact sheet

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Elements, compounds and mixtures | Reading comprehension | 14–16 years

By Laura Conkerton

Practise reading comprehension skills with a science research article about a new technique for extracting lithium
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Thin-layer chromatography and analgesics | 16–18 years

In this investigation learners use thin-layer chromatography to separate and identify over-the-counter medicines
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Alkenes | Review my learning worksheets | 14–16 years

Identify learning gaps and misconceptions with this set of alkenes worksheets offering three levels of support