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Chemistry is not always completely environmentally friendly; green chemistry is working to change that.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Methional played centre stage at the recent Second International Contest for Note by Note Cooking. The challenge: to make dishes containing only methional and ‘pure’ compounds such as milk proteins, alcohols, amino acids and flavour chemicals, and, ideally, no plant tissues, meat, fish or eggs
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Could hydrogen be the best alternative for fossil fuels? This demonstration shows how a hydrogen economy might work in practice.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
Industrial activities and even geological changes can affect the quality of water, causing contamination that poses risks to human health and the environment. Learn how to become an independent analyst to ensure that we have good-quality water.
Ages: 16-19;
To keep refuelling its reactor, the EFDA-JET facility fires frozen hydrogen pellets into 150 million°C plasma. But these pellets have an added benefit as well.
Ages: 16-19;
When measuring the chemistry of the atmosphere, it helps to fly up in specially modified laboratories.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
One hundred years after the start of the First World War, chemical weapons are still in the news. We consider some of the ethical questions behind the war’s chemical legacy.
Ages: 16-19;
‘The Elements’ and ‘The Compounds’ are two series of professionally produced podcasts, each lasting between 5 and 7 minutes.
Ages: not applicable;
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;
In Sweden there lives a small, green dragon called Berta, who invites young children to join her adventures in Dragon Land – all of which are about chemistry.
Ages: <11;
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Greening chemistry
Topics: Chemistry, Earth science, Science and society
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From methional to fried chicken
Topics: Biology, Chemistry
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A classroom hydrogen economy
Topics: Physics, Chemistry, Engineering
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Become a water quality analyst
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Engineering
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Super cold meets super hot
Topics: Physics, Engineering
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Up, up and away: using aircraft for atmospheric monitoring
Topics: Chemistry, Earth science
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Experiments in integrity – Fritz Haber and the ethics of chemistry
Topics: Chemistry, Science and society
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Podcasts ‘The Elements’ and ‘The Compounds’, by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Topics: Resources
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Inspired by nature: modern drugs
Topics: Chemistry, General science, Health
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The way of the dragon: chemistry for the youngest
Topics: Physics, Chemistry
