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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;
Iodine, with its characteristic purple vapours, has myriad applications – from the familiar disinfectant to innovative solar cells.
Ages: 14-16, 16-19;
A group of German researchers is bringing to light the medicinal wisdom of the Middle Ages.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
Measuring the temperature inside a fusion reactor is no easy task. Find out how it’s done – and even simulate it in the classroom.
Ages: 16-19;
Studying the chemical composition of some of the planet’s oldest rocks has revolutionised our understanding of how our continents formed.
Ages: 11-14, 14-16, 16-19;
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Super cold meets super hot
Topics: Physics, Engineering
| Issue 29
Up, up and away: using aircraft for atmospheric monitoring
Topics: Chemistry, Earth science
| Issue 29
Experiments in integrity – Fritz Haber and the ethics of chemistry
Topics: Chemistry, Science and society
| Issue 28
Podcasts ‘The Elements’ and ‘The Compounds’, by Chemistry World, the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Topics: Resources
| Issue 28
Inspired by nature: modern drugs
Topics: Chemistry, General science, Health
| Issue 28
The way of the dragon: chemistry for the youngest
Topics: Physics, Chemistry
| Issue 27
Purple fumes: the importance of iodine
Topics: Physics, Chemistry, Health
| Issue 27
Monastic medicine: medieval herbalism meets modern science
Topics: Biology, Chemistry, Health
| Issue 26
A thermometer that goes to 200 million degrees
Topics: Physics, Chemistry
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Cracking the mystery of how our planet formed
Topics: Physics, Chemistry, Earth science
