This revised Nuffield Chemistry option began with everyday plastics and sought to demonstrate, measure and explain their properties. Thermoplastics were distinguished from thermosets and the differences explained in terms of the structure and bonding of polymers. A historical section showed how natural materials...

In this Revised Nuffield Chemistry option, ideas about proton and electron transfer were used to explain the decay of stonework and the corrosion of metals. Practical investigations explored the physical and chemical changes that can lead to the breakdown of stone as well as the factors that determine the rate of...

This Revised Nuffield Option aimed to help students see their experience of elements and compounds in a more unified and coherent theoretical framework. The treatment was based on experiment but emphasised theory.

Contents

1. Periodicity

2. Atomic structure

3. Bonding...

Teachers and students had considerable freedom in their response to this Revised Nuffield Chemistry option because under O-level regulations it was teacher assessed. Practical work was based on a ‘real’ industrial process from the fine chemicals industry.

Contents

1. The development...

This Revised Nuffield Chemistry option suggested the use of paper, column and thin-layer chromatography to analyse inks, food colours and coins. Quantitative work was based on the analysis of vitamin C in foods.

Contents

1. Chromatography

2. The determination of vitamin C in...

An article about chiral compounds and the chemistry of flavours like orange and spearmint.

Catalyst is a science magazine for students aged 14-19 years. Find out more about Catalyst magazine: www.stem.org.uk/catalyst

This booklet contains a range of suggested activities and contexts for teaching about organic chemistry at A level. Curriculum links include nomenclature, fomulae, reactions and mechanisms, structural isomerism, hydrocarbons, functional groups, alkanes, alkenes, haloalkanes, alcohols,  structural isomerism, isomers...

This booklet contains a range of suggested activities and contexts for teaching organic chemistry at A level. Curriculum links include nomenclature, formulae, isomerism, reaction mechanisms, synthesis, and cracking.

Although produced to support the teaching of OCR AS/A Level Chemistry B (Salters), ...

Many of the chemicals we use as drugs, flavourings and perfumes originate from natural sources but often the most economical way of obtaining them is to produce them artificially on an industrial scale.

In this...

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Identify the particles that make up the structure represented by chemical symbols and formulae.
• Identify the particles that make up a solution.
• Explain observed changes...

A multiple choice quiz on the ozone layer AS/A level chemistry.

Although it is written for OCR AS/A level chemistry (Salters) H033/H433 course, it can be edited to suit your scheme of work.

Palaeontology strives to discover evidence so that we might learn more about the fossil remains of life and understand how they lived, functioned and even died. Scientists at The University of Manchester have been using state-of-the art imaging, chemical analyses and computer modelling techniques to study the...