The Practical Chemistry website, maintained by a team led by Emma Woodley of the UK Royal Society of Chemistry
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URL: www.practicalchemistry.org
Marco Budinich and Massimo Vascotto introduce a school project to measure radon levels in your own home.
Nataša Gros, Tim Harrison, Irena Štrumbelj Drusany and Alma Kapun Dolinar introduce a selection of experiments with a simple spectrometer designed especially for schools – and give details of how to perform one of the activities.
A string of glucose molecules: starch. It sounds simple, but it isn’t. Dominique Cornuéjols and Serge Pérez explore the intricacies of its structure – and show that the mystery is by no means solved.
Peter Douglas and Mike Garley investigate how chemistry and light interact in many aspects of our everyday life.
The vast majority of chemists with whom I come into contact recall that the first experiences that excited them about chemistry were either seeing or doing practical work.
The StandardBase project has produced 72 standard analytical procedures used in industry and adapted for use by students in schools and colleges via the Internet. Ken Gadd and Luca Szalay explain the goals and the use of StandardBase products.
Why do some people find that their urine smells horribly after eating asparagus? Should green beans be cooked with the lid on or off? How hot are chilli peppers? What affects the colour and texture of cooked vegetables? These are a few of the questions that the Kitchen Chemistry book and CD-ROM aim…
One of the many purposes of science is to support the humanities. With this in mind, Gianluca Farusi and his students set out to investigate and prepare iron-gall ink, a historically significant material for the transmission of knowledge.
We sit on them, wear them and cook with them: plastics are everywhere. Yet this very versatility makes it difficult to produce and dispose of plastics in environmentally friendly ways. David Bradley explains how researchers at the University of Manchester, UK, are working on a solution.
The Practical Chemistry website, maintained by a team led by Emma Woodley of the UK Royal Society of Chemistry
The ‘Radon school survey’: measuring radioactivity at home
Spectrometry at school: hands-on experiments
Starch: a structural mystery
Chemistry and light
Classic Chemistry Demonstrations: One Hundred Tried and Tested Experiments, By Ted Lister
StandardBase: a Leonardo da Vinci pilot project for practical education and training in chemistry
Kitchen Chemistry, By Ted Lister and Heston Blumenthal
Monastic ink: linking chemistry and history
Plastics, naturally