Chemistry Outreach: The salt cellar mystery

Introducing the world of forensic science; gathering chemical and fingerprint evidence to solve a crime.

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Limestone weathering
This activity is designed for students aged 11-14. It can be used to reinforce work on the reactions of carbonates with acids as well as the chemical weathering of rock.
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New system could find use in food monitoring or disease detection
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Dirty stirrer bars can act as phantom catalysts
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Time-of-flight calculations
2019-10-08T11:24:00Z
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.