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Hi fellow chemistry teachers. I am leaving IB this year but ABSOLUTELY recommend that you lobby your coordinators and administrators to get access to this site. It is something I wish i had done/been aware of and done YEARS ago. Geoff makes things easily...
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Perhaps….some day the precision of data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motion of celestial bodies.
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- Dear Geoffrey,Thank you again for your help.Leslie
- Hello Leslie, Paper 1 will be presented in two separate booklets, Section A and Section B, that are completed together without interruption. For both sections, the use of a calculator is permitted and students must also have access to a clean...
- Hi David, You are of course correct that the syllabus does not mention diastereomers, so, unless some specific information is given in the rubric of the question, students cannot really be examined on them. However, a structural formula could...
- Hi Geoff - just prepping the 3.2.7 topic. I notice you and the pearson textbook have kept diasteromers in - yet I have found nothing mentioned about this is the subject content for the new course. Do you know if this will come up?