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Free IB-approved online EE writing course Free
Image from FutureLearn Students who want to improve their Extended Essay writing skills can now register for a new free FutureLearn course. The University of Leeds in the UK has designed this online course...
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Why you should recycle your old smartphone Free
Two geologists, Dr Arjan Dijkstra and Dr Colin Wilkins from the University of Plymouth’s Sustainable Earth Institute have analysed the mineral content of a typical smartphone. They ground the phone to...
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Should chlorine be in group 31? Free
The 150th anniversary of Mendeleev’s periodic table has catalysed many chemists to question all the different ways in which the elements can be arranged to maximise the usefulness of the table. A good...
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Some basic household chemistry Free
Health and Safety requirements in all schools are important and teachers and students should always consider the short-term and long-term hazards associated with chemicals in the laboratory but what about...
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Today’s Google doodle Free
The beans in the 'G' of Google’s doodle today give the clue. A few details about a relatively unknown chemist who is celebrated by Google today. 225 years ago on 8 February 1794 Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge...
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An 1885 version of Mendeleev’s table Free
You never know what might be lurking underneath your lecture theatre. A wallchart of the periodic table was found at St. Andrew’s University in Scotland that dates back to 1885, just 16 years after Mendeleev...
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Publishing your students’ research Free
I attended an inspiring lecture recently given by Professor Anthony Campbell. Tony is an honorary professor at the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science at Cardiff University in the UK. He is...
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Making the site more student-friendly Free
Many subscribing teachers have now signed their students up to student access. The pages in ‘Teaching each topic and sub-topic” under "Core and HL" are probably the most popular as they cover all the...
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Make up a question about the Periodic Table Free
To mark the150th. anniversary of the Periodic Table (first proposed by Mendeleev in 1869), IUPAC will be hosting an online quiz during 2019 for a global audience of young people. This quiz, which will...
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Option D
Option D: Medicinal chemistry is one of my favourite options. As 'Drugs and medicines' it used to be part of the old Standard level Applied Chemistry course and was dropped when that course was merged...