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Use a common chemical technique from the field of forensics to reveal fingerprints in the laboratory.
Ages: 16-19;
Have fun with organic chemistry by extracting sweet-smelling essential oils from fragrant plants.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Try these hands-on activities to introduce your students to microplastics – a hazard for fish and other marine animals – and to our responsibilities to our environment.
Ages: <11, 11-14, 14-16;
Many naturally occurring compounds are useful in medicine – but they can be fabulously expensive to obtain from their natural sources. New scientific methods of synthesis and production are overcoming this problem.
Ages: 16-19;
What links your jeans, sea snails, woad plants and the Egyptian royal family? It’s the dye, indigo. Learn about its fascinating history and how you can extract it at school.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Hydrogen may be the fuel of the future, but how can we produce it sustainably? Karin Willquist explains.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
What types of plastic are used to build a car? How are they synthesised and recycled? Marlene Rau and Peter Nentwig introduce two activities from the ‘Chemie im Kontext’ project.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Did you know that the electron and electricity are named after amber, the ‘gold’ of the Baltic Sea? Bernhard Sturm’s teaching unit based on this fossilised resin introduces not only conductivity but also many other characteristics of solid organic compounds.
Ages: 16-19;
Angelika Börsch-Haubold demonstrates the olfactory delights of organic chemistry.
Ages: 16-19;
| Issue 49
Solving crimes with chemistry
Topics: Chemistry
| Issue 44
Perfumes with a pop: aroma chemistry with essential oils
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
| Issue 34
Microplastics: small but deadly
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Earth science, Science and society
| Issue 28
Inspired by nature: modern drugs
Topics: Chemistry, General science, Health
| Issue 24
Indigo: recreating Pharaoh’s dye
Topics: Chemistry, General science
| Issue 22
Hydrogen: the green energy carrier of the future?
Topics: Chemistry, Engineering
| Issue 20
Plastics in cars: polymerisation and recycling
Topics: Chemistry
| Issue 19
Amber: an introduction to organic chemistry
Topics: Physics, Chemistry
| Issue 6
Small molecules make scents
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
