September 2011
Vol 48, No 5. Selected articles and reviews available online to all. Full issue available online to subscribers.
News
Exams - from chaos to records
07 September 2011
Following the errors discovered in exam papers this summer
RSC president welcomes increase in chemistry A-levels
07 September 2011
The total number of students entered for chemistry A-level increased by 9.2 per cent
The future of chemistry education
07 September 2011
The RSC is calling on teachers to help form its vision for UK chemistry in 2020
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Chemistry Olympiad, UK success
07 September 2011
An Alcester teenager has become one of the world's top three chemistry students
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RSC announces new school teacher fellows
07 September 2011
Two new school teacher fellows for the new academic year have been announced
RSC Education Awards
07 September 2011
The RSC is inviting nominations for their 2012 Education Awards
Meet the universities goes online
07 September 2011
Free advice about university chemistry courses and admissions to prospective students
SEP also on the move
07 September 2011
Teachers need to register with the National STEM Centre to receive Gatsby SEP resources
RSC resources on YouTube
07 September 2011
All of the Royal Society of Chemistry's can be found in one place on YouTube
Periodic table of the isotopes launched by Iupac
07 September 2011
Iupac has launched a new periodic table which emphasises isotopic composition
CLEAPSS hazard symbol guidance released
07 September 2011
The new Globally Harmonised System for labelling chemicals and their hazards
Soundbite molecules - detecting explosives
Simon Cotton looks at compounds in the news or relating to our everyday lives. In this issue: detecting explosives
Web watch
Josh Howgego looks at some websites that may be of interest to chemistry teachers. In this issue: magic and assessment support
Sharing teaching expertise and research
07 September 2011
Science teaching journal club and relating research to practice
Chemlingo
Peter Childs, University of Limerick, investigates words in chemistry. In this issue: roses are red and so is blood
Feedback
The Elements
Exhibition Chemistry
Burning magnesium in dry ice
Demonstrations to capture the student's imagination, by Declan Fleming of Pate's Grammar School, Cheltenham. In this issue: Burning Magnesium in dry ice
Features
Did molybdenum control evolution on Earth?
Recent discoveries indicate that our atmosphere was not always oxygen rich - molybdenum could have been the limiting factor in the evolution of life on earth
Fluorine, an obsession with a tragic past
The hazardous nature of hydrogen fluoride brought agony and death to investigators during early attempts to isolate fluorine
A healthy, wealthy, sustainable world
..won't happen without chemists. We need a new generation of young chemists to avoid becoming an undernourished, impoverished, unsustainable world.
Maths for chemists
Estimating pH of ammonium solutions containing weak Brønsted-Lowry bases
Maths for chemists - tips for teaching maths skills to our future chemists
Distillates
Reviews
Endpoint
Infochem
