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The InThinking Chemistry website has been a great resource to have. The multiple choice tests have been invaluable in diagnostic marking and the guides to each subtopic, along with their discussions of common pitfalls, have helped to guide and improve...
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Saying that each of two atoms can attain closed electron shells by sharing a pair of electrons is equivalent to saying that husband and wife, by having a total of two dollars in a joint account and each having six dollars in individual bank accounts, have eight dollars apiece!
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A useful chromatography resource from the RSC
The Royal Society of Chemistry has just published a useful resource for students that covers chromatography for the 16-18 year age group. It...
Progress in carbon capture?
This blog looks at a promising recent development which could lead to capturing carbon dioxide emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels...
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- Thank you Geoff for your reply. I am also a chemist. I just want to make sure how we would teach it for students in our chemistry subject. So as i got from you, we teach it as particles ceases and stop moving?
- Geoff, (not Richard!) I fear I am becoming more like my parents everyday, mixing up names of people that I clearly should not mix up....The Richard Thornley videos above must have confused me. John
- Hi John, You make a valid point (to Richard?) about HF and BF3 - although fluorine with an electronegativity value of 4 is always a problem with the ~ 1.8 rule of thumb - but I'm still not convinced that triangular bonding...
- Hello Omar, I'm a chemist, not a physicist, and the question is hypothetical as absolute zero can never be reached. As I understand it particles at absolute zero would not possess translational or vibrational kinetic energy. All particles...