All Structure and bonding articles – Page 9
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ExperimentCrystal chemistry
A fun experiment to grow your own crystals using everyday items in your learning space, great to get learners interacting with science
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ResourceChemistry in your cupboard: Veet
Link the post-16 topics of amino acids and proteins, bonding, reaction rates and equilibria and Le Chateliers principle to the topic of hair removal. Learn about a range of real life contexts for these chemical ideas through written material, and questions to encourage learning and test understanding.
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ResourceChemistry in your cupboard: Cillit Bang
Link the post-16 topics of group 1 elements, detergents (surfactants), solvents and acids to the topic of cleaning products.
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ResourceChemistry in your cupboard: Harpic
Link the post-16 topics of group bonding, acid rain, equilibria and Le Chateliers principle and strong and weak acids to the topic of removing limescale. Learn about a range of real life contexts for these chemical ideas through written material, and questions to encourage learning and test understanding.
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NewsMolecular machines roll in for the 2016 chemistry Nobel
Ben Feringa, Jean-Pierre Sauvage and Fraser Stoddart take chemistry’s top gong for creating a series of nanoscale machines
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ReviewMolecules – a chemistry card game
Kristy reviews a chemistry card game that's educational and fun
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ResourceRecycling the undesired enantiomer of Naproxen
This context/problem-based learning (C/PBL) resource is part of a collection we have commissioned for you to use with your undergraduate students. This 5 credit module is based on the following scenario:Your students work for a company that produces (S)-naproxen, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), via a racemic method. Whilst (S)-naproxen ...
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ResourceChemical and physical properties of pheromones
Help learner’s to understand what pheromones are, and how they are used by animals such as moths.
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ResourceThe thickness of titanium atoms in paint
Discover the thickness of a film of paint, estimating how thick it is by titanium atoms/ions.
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ResourceCobalt complexes
Devise structures for cobalt complexes given, decide how to distinguish between the four complexes, and identify some properties that are the same for all four complexes.
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ExperimentSodium ethanoate ‘stalagmite’
Quickly grow your own ‘stalagmite’ from a supersaturated solution of sodium ethanoate in this demonstration. Includes kit list and safety instructions.
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Exhibition chemistryProperties of alloys: finding the NaK
Why is NaK a liquid? Declan Fleming finds out
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OpinionThe education of Harry Kroto
Kristy Turner reflects on Sir Harry Kroto's relationship with education
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FeatureThe origin of life
How did molecules turn into living organisms? Paul MacLellan investigates
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FeatureThe bonds that bind
Mike Sutton plots the journey of the scientists who solved the riddle of chemical bonding