Anecdotes for Chemistry Teachers: Thomsons - Discoverers of the electron

The discovery of the electron and the diffraction of an electron beam.

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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 - Dec 18 : J J Thomson was born
He was named Cavendish Professor at just 28 years of age, and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906 for discovering the electron, and his work on electrical conductivity in gases.
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An eye for wearable tech
2020-02-19T13:18:00Z
The smart contact lens equipped with a rechargeable supercapacitor that won’t interfer with vision

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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