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Feature list for Chemistry Review
LAB PAGE
Recrystallisation - purification of solids
Thin-layer chromatography TLC
Making standard solutions
Using a separating funnel
Distillation
Melting point determination
Measuring pH
Extracting and studying enzymes
Measuring volume
Solvent extraction
Colorimeters
Growing crystals
Safe heating
Observing
Electrochemical cells
Steam distillation
Volumetric analysis
Testing for metal ions
Separating solids from liquids
Handling gases
Testing for gases
Measuring the boiling point of a liquid
Measuring pH
What is chromatography?
Recrystallisation
Refluxing and distillation
Calorimetry
Assessing the risks in practical work
Oxidation of alcohols
Experimental error and error analysis
Making a standard solution
Colorimetry
Observing and recording
Distillation
Not all indicators are equal
Thin layer chromatography
Melting points and boiling points
Electrode potentials
How to be a lab success: using QuickFit apparatus
How to be a lab success: titrations, crystals, separating and mixing
Identifying an unknown organic compound
Planning your own experiment
Heating under reflux
Infrared spectrometers
Flame tests and emission spectra
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Recrystallisation
Determining the yield of a reaction
Performing the perfect titration
Steam distillation
Chromatography
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24(3)
TOP TIPS
Getting the language right
Oxidation states
The shapes of molecules
Calculations involving amounts
Identifying reactions (1)
Identifying reactions (2)
Calculating yields in chemical reactions
Drawing enthalpy cycles
Interpreting mass spectra
Interpreting NMR spectra
Writing structural isomers using stick formulae
Tackling chemical calculations
Know your Ks
Understanding electrode potentials
Using electrode potentials
Balancing equations
Using oxidation states
Van der Waals Forces
Classifying organic reactions
Measuring the rate of a chemical reaction
Born Haber Cycles
What’s in a word?
Watch your language!
Hess’s Law
Guidelines for drawing organic structures
Shapes in inorganic chemistry
Drawing lab diagrams
Representing chemical reactions
Drawing reaction mechanisms
Drawing radical reaction mechanisms
Atom economy: avoiding chemical waste
Naming esters
Tracking your degree application
Making use of electrode potentials
Hess cycles and the MASK check
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REVISION NOTE
Bonding between molecules
Spectroscopy
Electrolysis
Shapes of molecules and electron pair repulsion theory
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1(4)
Interpreting mass spectra
What makes a reaction go?
Redox (and oxidation numbers)
Energy profiles
An overview of organic reactions
Acids
The Periodic Table
Testing for functional groups
A new angle on bonding
Solidification of solutions
Melting point determination
The transition metals
Naming aliphatic organic compounds
Keeping track of energy changes
Drawing organic compounds
Born-Haber cycles and lattice energies
Melting and boiling points
Keeping things short
Acids & bases
Acid-base indicators and buffer solutions
Ultraviolet and visible spectra
Kinetics
Group 4
Identifying gasses
Intermolecular bonds
Isomerism
Halogens
Spider diagrams
The alkanes
Changing state
Exam tactics
Transition metal complexes I
Transition metal complexes II
Organic synthetic pathways
What is isomerism?
Amines
Gases Part 1
Calculations involving masses
Gases Part 2
Trends in period 3 elements
The elements in group 2
Titrations
Nucleophiles
Moles – the basics
Calculating pH
Carboxylic acids
Establishing a rate equation
Aliphatic organic compounds
Summary of reactions for benzene/aromatic compounds
From creaking joints to saving a steamship
Bonding: sticking atoms together
Interpreting infrared spectra
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Classifying organic reactions
Trends in ionisation energy
Acids and bases: a whistle-stop tour
Acids and bases: developing ideas further
Oxides of carbon
Solid foundations: part 1
Solid foundations: part 2
Tackling stretch and challenge questions
Copper sulfate and ammonia: stretch and challenge question
Understanding NMR spectra
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SUBSTANCES
Tin and lead
Iodine
Methyl mercaptan
Sodium carbonate
Argon - in the spotlight
Helium
Platinum
Nitric Acid
Propanone
Iodine
Hydrogen peroxide
Alumina
Silica
Nitric oxide
Mixed oxides
Chlorides
Potassium chloride
Aluminium chloride
Cl4 and SiCl4+
HCl
Butane
Ethanoic acid
Phenol
Aluminium
Caesium
Sulfur
Cyanides
Chlorine
A bitter isomerisation
Carbon monoxide
Strontium
Gallium
Selenium
Hydrogen
Chromium
Bromine
Hydrogen sulfide
Titanium
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Nitrogen oxides
Ozone
Carbohydrates
Carboxylic acids
Hydrogen: alkali metal or halogen?
Lithium
Supercritical carbon dioxide
Silicones and silanes
Platinum: not just for jewellery
The fight against bacteria: every cloud has a silver lining
Deadly beauty
Finding a fix
Graphene
Vanadium
Calcium carbonate
Water water everywhere
Iridium: life-saving transition element
Cocaine: atoms of addiction
Aerogel: ‘frozen smoke’
Tetrodotoxin: famously deadly poison
All things ice
Iodine in medicine
Magnesium
Looking into glass
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ANSWER BACK
The main features of the atomic spectrum of hydrogen - JMB
A question of organic reactions - JMB
Chemistry from group V - University of London Schools Examinations 1989
A question of ideality - JMB
Rates and orders of reaction - Oxford and Cambridge Examinations Board
Acids and equilibria - JMB
Testing and estimating ions - JMB
Alternative fuels - Salters' Advanced Chemistry
Have you got redox potential - JMB
A question of applying knowledge - Salters' Advanced Chemistry
Silicone polymers
Distinguishing between pairs of organic compounds
- JMB Syllabus B paper 2, Section B, 1990
The Chemistry of Life - Nuffield Chemistry Special Study 1989
Social Economic, Environmental and Technological aspects of Chemistry
- Oxford & Cambridge, Paper 3 1992
Born-Haber cycle and lattice energies - Nuffield Paper 2, ULEAC 1988
A Balancing Act - JMB 1991, paper IIB
Petroleum technology - Salters' Advanced Level Chemistry
The importance of revision
Directing aromatic substitution - JMB Syllabus A and Syllabus B 1991
Mr Midgeley's discovery CFCs - Salters A level examinations 1994
Tackling calculations - Nuffield Chemistry 1993, Paper 1
The mystery of the dead deer - Salters A-level 1994
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Ammonia - Oxford and Cambridge Paper 3, Section A 1992
Transition Metals - NEAB Paper B Section IIA, 1995
An Unusual Beetle - Salter A level Paper 1 1995
Reactions of Halogenoalkanes with Potassium Hydroxide – NEAB
A Potentially Dangerous Fertiliser – Salters (OCR)
Knocking Your Organic Chemistry into Shape - Oxford & Cambridge
An Organic Whodunit - WJEC
Copper Chemistry – Salters (OCR
Structures Equations & Mechanisms - NEAB
Kinetics - NEAB
Planning Your Chemistry - Nuffield
Periodic Pattern - NEAB
Chromatography & Structure of Dipeptide - Nuffield
Complex Information - OCSEB
Does faster mean further? - WJEC
Organic Chemistry - NEAB
Energy, bonding and haloalkanes – Nuffield
Obtaining Marks from obtaining Methods - NEAB
Ethanol as a Fuel – Salters (OCR)
Solving a chemical jigsaw puzzle - NEAB
Structure and bonding – NEAB
Phosphorus and friends – EdExcel
Testing Halide Ions - AEB
Testing much more than fertilizers – EdExcel
Knowledge and how to apply it - NEAB
Assorted Alcohols - AQA
Correcting Fluid correct? - NEAB
Redox rights and wrongs - Edexcel
Sniffing for extra marks - WJEB
Patterns in the periodic table - Scottish Higher
Oxidation and reduction at AS and A2 - AQA
Electronic Structure and Chemical Bonding - Edexcel
Familiar and less familiar acids -WJEC
Fuelling the Fire - OCR
Particles, bonding and shapes - AQA
Get in the Right Group - OCR
Organic Synthesis – AQA
Synoptic Papers and Synoptic Questions – Edexcel
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Longer Responses - AQA
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Halons and the demise of the ozone - OCR
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Tales of the Unexpected June 2003 - WJEC
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Acids, bases, pH and buffers - AQA
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Any Old Ion? - Salters (OCR) – A2
Equilibrium, Enthalpy, Entropy ... and Extras - Salters (OCR) – A2
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Photochemical smog - Salters - Advanced
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Keep in Contact - Edexcel - AS
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Why do endothermic reactions happen? – AQA – A2
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Driven by Enthalpy - Edexcel - AS
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Ironing out the problem - Edexcel - A2
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A synoptic organic question - AQA - A2
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Extracting chemistry with a metal - Salters (OCR) - AS
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A weighty problem? - Salters (OCR) - A2
Genning up on nitrogen - AQA
Changing gear to AS - Salters (OCR) - AS
Glorious glycerol - Salters (OCR) - A2
Getting into shape with isomers - AQA - AS
Communicating chemistry - Salters (OCR) - AS
Watch your language - AQA
Sulfuric acid - Edexcel
Vitamin C - Salters (OCR) – A2
Chemsitry and fireworks - Salters (OCR) – AS
Rates and catalysis – AQA
Fun with phenylethene - Salters (OCR) – AS
Calculations – Salters (OCR) – AS & A2
What comes out of your kettle? – AQA
It ain’t what you do (it’s the way you do it) – AQA
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Structure and spectroscopy – Salters (OCR) – A2
Folic acid – Salters (OCR) – A2
Controversial chlorine – Salters (OCR) – AS
Chemistry from a natural product – Salters (OCR) – AS
Tricky transition metals – IB – Higher level
Planning for success in extended-answer questions
Absinthe: lessons from the green fairy
Alkenes and clean screens
Examining equilibrium
Indications of change
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PEOPLE/ALL IN A DAY’S WORK
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Hart, Judith
Knight, Barry
Gregory, Peter
Hamer, Pam
Senior, Clare
Crawley, Frank
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Tarasova, Natalia
Hutchinson, Ann
Sutton, Jane
Osman, Robert
Owen, Nick
Hewitt, Chris
Hazel, Nick
Hodgson, Anne
Levitt, Melissa
Hockley, Sian
Julie Hall
Louise Scarry
O'Brien, Peter
Freelance Journalist
Ancient Monument Laboratories (English Heritage)
Senior Scientist (ICI Specialty Colours Group)
Forensic Scientist
Analytical Chemist in Packaging Research
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Authority on safety of industrial processes
Radiation Chemist, Professor of Industrial Ecology,
Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology, Moscow
Process Chemist (Rhone-Poulenc Agriculture)
Press and Publicity Officer (Royal Society of Chemistry)
Plant Manager, Pigment Dispersion Plant, Yorkshire Chemicals
Innovations Marketing Manager, Hickson & Welch
Brand Manager, Aldrich UK
Issues Manager, BP Chemicals
University Chemistry Department
Commissioning Editor
Patent Agent
Antarctic Research
Granular Detergent Technology
University Lecturer
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Walker, Karen
Tinkler, Suzanne
Wevill, Dave
Barnham, Rachel
Macdonald, Anthony
Hardy, Jeff
Agrochemical Registration Specialist
Confectionery product developer
Antarctic Survey
Forensic Scientist
Biomedical researcher
UK Energy Research Centre
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IN PICTURES
Structure of insulin
A closer look at clay
A hydrogen plant
The work of a conservator
Models of atoms
Different forms of carbon
The Periodic Table
What happens in a Bunsen flame?
Fast & fresh (sandwiches)
From dolomite to magnesium oxide
Versatile silicones
Infrared spectrometry
Gold, frankincense and myrrh
History of the atmosphere
Chemistry can detect faulty genes
A prize collection (Nobel prize winners & stamps)
Gas chromatography
Water
Molecular fossils
The rocaglamide story
Getting your pinta from the cow
Salt of the earth
Fractional Distillation
Nobel
Nuclear magnetic resonance
First class organic chemistry
Ways of representing proteins
Chemistry in the open air
Mass spectrometry
Water treatment
A breath of fresh air
Chocolate
Challenge of materials
Thermal analysis
Seeing atoms
pH: Who needs to know
Medicines in the garden
Chemistry under the microscope
Chemistry on track
The brewer's art
Gemstones
Fireworks
Molecules of the millennium
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Generating electricity
Testing air quality
Visual elements
Phosphorus
It’s a chiral world!
Chemistry colour & light
Food to dye for
Antioxidants
Biodiesel
Polymer protected professionals
Dyeing hair
The barking dog
Around the world with chemistry
Modelling the double helix
Machair
The heat is on
Molecules in a virtual world
The Magnificent Seven: magic bullets of 21st century
Science is art
Antifreeze
Magnetic resonance imaging
Probably the most important reactions in the world
Camping with chemistry
Rocks that glow in the dark
Stimulating chemistry
Copper on tap?
Seeing the nanoworld: atomic structures and reaction dynamics
Getting plastered
The disguises of carbon
Hydrogen bonds: holding the world together
The Martian poles
Atoms to patterns
Chemistry in the atmosphere
Magnetic marvel
Chemistry of the cosmos
Decoding skeletal secrets
Kevlar: miracle material
Hair-raising chemistry
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Three forms of elemental carbon
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Science beats food fraud
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Chemistree: food dyes
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The smell of success
How hot is your chemistry?
Rat wars
You can’t beat beetroot
Celebrating the double helix
Hydrogen fuel cells: harnessing explosive energy
Burning blue
Feeling blue: lobster rarities
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Wake up and smell the coffee
Can we grow gold on plants?
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PROJECT PAGE
Decomposing hydrogen peroxide
What's in water?
The reactions of metals with acids
Making light of Project work
There's more to Vitamin C than Brussels
Reactions that don't add up
Clock reactions
Aspirin
Investigating enzymes
How accurate are titrations?
What’s in wine
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Ion exchange resins
Oscillating reactions
Adsorption and inclusion
Concentration of copper ions
Dyes and dyeing
A Reaction that speeds itself up
Anyone for spaghetti and peas?
How quickly does bleach deteriorate?
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SCIENTISTS OF SUBSTANCE
Mendeleev, creator of the chemists’ logo
John Newlands
Harry Moseley
Fritz Haber
John Priestly
Sir William Ramsay
Sir Humphry Davy
Linus Pauling
Thomas Midgely
Gilbert N. Lewis: his acids and bases
Glenn T. Seaborg: creator of elements
Lise Meitner: radiochemist, physicist and co-discoverer of nuclear fission
Ida Tacke-Noddack: co-discoverer of rhenium and nuclear fission
Rosalind Franklin: physical chemist, X-ray crystallographer and DNA pioneer
Marguerite Perey: discoverer of francium
Organic growth from Deutsche Chemiker
More organic growth from Deutsche Chemiker: Liebig and Wőhler
Seeds of structural organic chemistry: August Kekulé
Adolf von Baeyer and Victor Meyer
Avogadro: count and counting chemist
John Dalton: Quaker scientist and law maker
van der Waals: famous for recognising feeble forces
Michael Faraday
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: great discoveries in X-ray crystallography
Carothers: inventor of nylon
Kwolek: creator of Kevlar
Benerito: the chemist who banished ironing
Marie Curie: probing the atom
The fascinating Fenton reaction
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CHEMISTRY ON THE WEB/CHEMISTRY ONLINE
Webelements
Finding information about degree courses
Molecule of the Month
Chemystery
Buckminsterfullerenes
Green pages
Ring the changes with Chime
Life, the universe and the electron
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Poison
Fire!
Green sites
The Nobel prize
A world of virtual chemistry
A site for you
Surf ‘n’ learn
To boldly go…
Chemistry in the shed!
Virtually isomeric
No worries!
Chocolate gingers
The virtual library
Plastastic!
Find your way with the web index
Catalysis for success!
The double helix 50 years on
Analyse this!
British Antarctic Survey
Transition metals in organic chemistry
Light: the fuel of life
Chemistry by numbers
A greener industry
Chemical role models
The science of surfing
Spectroscopy, mechanisms and calculations online
A world of science just a click away
The nano-world wide web
Practical internet
Extreme internet
Bright sites: in search of the most useful chemistry websites
Molecule of the month
The great communicator
Internet dating
Chemistry in car engines
iExperiment
Professor Dave: Youtube chemist
ChemSpider
Envirocrew.org: sustainability works
Picture it…Chemistry
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WORTH READING
Molecules at an Exhibition
Nitroglycerine
The Shocking History of Phosphorus: a biography of the Devil’s element
The X-ray detective
Science, not art: ten scientists’ diaries
Uncle Tungsten
Better Looking, Better Living, Better Loving:
How chemistry can help you achieve life’s goals
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Eurekas and Euphorias: The Oxford Book of Scientific Anecdotes
Max Perutz and the Secret of Life
Chemistry3: introducing inorganic, organic and physical chemistry
A Healthy, Wealthy, Sustainable World
The Elements – a very short introduction
Nature’s Building Blocks (2nd edition)
Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names
Breverton’s Encyclopedia of Inventions
30-Second Elements
Every Molecule Tells a Story
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HOW CHEMISTRY WORKS / HOW SCIENCE WORKS
Modelling the atom
The noble gases: not so unreactive after all
How the periodic table was born
What is everything made from?
Boyle’s and Charles’ laws: a load of hot air?
Peer review: avoiding media scare stories
To err is scientific
Patents: protecting your ideas
Making alkenes: the Wittig reaction
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
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ENCOUNTER
Chemical landmarks of the twentieth century
Chemistry in slow motion
A date with the high and mighty of science
Malcolm Cunnington: the man in the white coat!
How snails could help repair broken bones
Showcase Science 2005
Tracking your degree application
Fruity electricity: Grätzel solar cells
Extremophiles in New York
Two pyrones and beyond…
Call to A-level students: preparations begin for Showcase Science 2009
Rainforest chemistry: investigating the atmosphere
Cutting-edge chemistry
Polymers and tulips: a year in industry
AAAS Conference
SeXeY chemistry
Food waste: beyond the bin
The life of a first-year chemistry student
Three years or four? Completing a chemistry degree
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CHEMYSTERY
The case of the missing scientist: part 1
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The case of the missing scientist: part 2
The case of the missing scientist: part 3
The case of the missing scientist: part 4
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FOCUS ON INDUSTRY
Salt
Making inks stick
The perfect solution: taking catalyst recycling to a new level
Phenol
Polyamides
Kevlar and composites
Calcium carbonate (CaCO3)
Biotechnology
Applications in agriculture: fertilisers
Applications in agriculture: fungicides
Applications in agriculture: herbicides
Applications in agriculture: insecticides
Catalysis: heterogeneous catalysts
Applications of heterogeneous catalysts
Catalysis: homogeneous catalysts
Biotechnology in the chemical industry: biodegradable polymers
Biotechnology in the chemical industry: biofuels
Recent advances in biofuel production
Biorefineries
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REMEMBER REMEMBER
Using mnemonic methods
The story system
The loci system
The peg method
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RESEARCH TEAM
Are you part of a research team?
Naphthazarin, PDT and the fight against cancer
The problem with PET
Are you part of a research team?
Nitric oxide as a synthetic reagent
Pushing back the frontiers…
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100 YEARS AGO
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811-1899)
Edward Frankland (1825-1899)
Henry Moseley: understanding atomic numbers
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Niels Bohr and atomic structure
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200 YEARS AGO
Joseph Black (1728-1799)
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WONDERS OF CHEMISTRY
Liquid breathing
Paved with titanium
Saving reefs from grief
Self-healing plastic
Windows that clean themselves
Twenty-first century batteries
Seeing with selenium
Solution to a sticky problem: non-drip ice-lollies
Tougher than a speeding bullet
The future’s bright, the future’s …tritium
Luminol: shedding the light on ‘hidden’ evidence
Potty power: microbial fuel cells
Cracking concrete heals itself
Molybdenite Valley? The search for new semiconductors
Won’t you step into my parlour…spider silk
Molecules of revision
Graphene and carbon nanotubes
The jeans that eat pollution
Lyotropic liquid crystals: essential for life
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CHEMICAL HEROES
A tough mistake
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ONE-OFF SERIES OF MAIN ARTICLES:
CHEMISTRY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Nitrogen and phosphorus in estuaries
Mountains of waste
SO2 and acid rain
Climate change and CO2
Tracing oil spills at sea
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CHEMISTRY AND HEALTH
Quinine – one of the great molecules
Metals in medicine
Body parts from the polymer lab
The discovery of Ventolin
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GREEN CHEMISTRY
Catalysts
Green beans?
Environmental solutions
Plants of the future
Atom efficiency and catalysis
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CHEMISTRY IN SPACE
DIBs: a great unsolved mystery
What a dusty universe!
Space: the first and last great brewery
Beagle 2: looking to explore a blurred vision of life on Mars
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A TASTE FOR CHEMISTRY
Cool chemistry: what’s in an ice cream?
Cooked to a turn! Non-enzymic browning in food
A root to white sugar: how to turn a plant into something sweet
Understanding cocoa flavour
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CHEMISTRY EVERYWHERE
Curly locks
Roast beef and ashes to vegetarian shampoo
All you should know about dough
The ultra-blue: the story of ultramarine
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FORENSIC CHEMISTRY
The chemistry of fingerprints
Resurrecting the past
Behind the scenes at the National Gallery
Drugs on money
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FUELLING THE FUTURE
Electricity generation
Electricity, the next generation
Driving towards a cleaner future
Global impact of fuels
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SPORTING CHEMISTRY
Performance fuel for people
Chemistry has the right fibre for sporting glory
Designer magic sponges
Catching the cheats: detecting drugs in sport
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NANOTECHNOLOGY
Nanochemistry: delivering new medicines?
Nanotechnologists inspired by nature: building new model enzymes
Liquid crystals: the fourth state of matter
When superconductors get crabby
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CHEMISTRY AND CLIMATE
Natural climate variability
The Antarctic ozone hole
The benefits of bracing sea air
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The chemistry of indoor air
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MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
Precious medicines
Don’t hold your breath: the diagnostic potential of breath analysis
Curing cancer with chemistry
Salbutamol: saving your breath
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DESIGN FOR THE FUTURE
The polymer predicament: making plastics from plants
Biocatalysis
Lab on a chip
LEDs: light fantastic
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OUT OF THIN AIR
From volcanoes to sea salt: atmospheric sulfur
Atmospheric nitrogen
Poison in the air: atmospheric carbon monoxide
Do ants destroy the ozone layer?
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WHAT’S YOUR POISON?
Cuppa chemistry
Chemistry of wine
Biochemistry, brewing and beery scientists
A mug of coffee and chemistry
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LIFESTYLE CHEMISTRY
Chemistry’s calling: mobile phones and touchscreen technology
Curried chemistry
Two in one: the chemistry of shampoo and conditioner
Shades of chemistry
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GREENER AND CLEANER
Artificial photosynthesis: putting sunshine in the tank
Reclaiming plastic waste
What can we make from carbon dioxide?
Biocatalysis in biosolvents
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CHEMISTRY IN MEDICINE
Developing and delivering drugs
Mind-numbing drugs
Fighting mental illness
Viral chemistry
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