All Structure and bonding articles – Page 9
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ChemTube3D: Polymers
This section provides an interactive 3D experience with many different polymers and demonstrates the key features of each one.
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ChemTube3D: Solid State
This website provides an interactive 3D experience with solid state structures and demonstrates the key features of each.
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Chemistry Olympiad Bites - Question 6 2010
Chemistry Olympiad Bites- Worked Answers to question 6 on the 2010 paper.
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Chemistry Olympiad Bites - Question 4 2011
Chemistry Olympiad- Worked Answers to question 4 on the 2011 paper.
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Chemistry Olympiad Bites - Questions 3 2009
Chemistry Olympiad- Worked Answers to question 3 on the 2009 paper.
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NBC Learn: Chemistry Now
This resource includes both videos and worksheets. The website makes links to everyday contexts in which chemistry is important. This material would provide enrichment to lessons using contemporary chemical examples.
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Folding @home - Fighting disease with citizen science
Joined forces to donate our unused computer power to help uncover the mysteries of protein folding and fight diseases
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UDock - a free interactive protein docking system
In Udock, the users can interact with representations of protein structures and learn about their importance aswell as score your performance.
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Foldit - Solve Puzzles for Science
Foldit is a revolutionary new computer game enabling you to contribute to important scientific research.
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Feature
Bringing molecules into the third dimension
Peter Hoare and Susan Henderson discuss the use of crystal structures to help both school students and early years undergraduates visualise molecules in 3D
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Exhibition chemistry
Brilliant bubbles and disappearing dyes
Declan Fleming shows you how to capture your students’ imaginations with spectacular demonstrations
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The Mole
Modelling crystal structure using marshmallows
Explore the regular and ordered structure of crystals before modelling them yourself using marshmallows and cocktail sticks in this ‘Avogadro’s lab’ activity.
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News
Calculations predict new form of phosphorus
Flat layers of ‘blue phosphorus’ may have ideal properties for nano-electronics
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Caffeine-fuelled fix for runaway eye treatment
Crystal designed to have stronger hydrogen bonds
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Opinion
Chemical Bonding Confusion
Some thoughts on the sources of confusion around chemical bonding having read Stephenson and Warrens' article in this month's Education in Chemistry
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Metals
Understanding the properties and reactivity of metals can help to develop students basic understanding of chemical reactions. All the properties of a particular substance depend upon the elements present and how they are bonded to each other. The activities develop such areas as elements, ions, reactivity series, metal extraction, displacement ...
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Chemical bonding: the octet rules ... OK?
Kay Stephenson and Dorothy Warren explain common misconceptions and show you how you could help your students