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Kitchen chemistry: How hot are chilli peppers?

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This resource explores the chemistry of capsaicinoids and the properties they give to chillies.

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16-18 years

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Wales
- A/AS level
  - WJEC Chemistry
    - Unit 4: ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND ANALYSIS
      - 4.8 Organic synthesis and analysis
        (g) use of chromatographic data from TLC/paper chromatography, GC and HPLC to find the composition of mixtures

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