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A useful chromatography resource from the RSC
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- Hello Xiaodan, I think you have put it very well and are correct. Students intuitively realise that energy needs to be put in to break a chemical bond but it is less obvious that the same amount of energy is given out when the same bond is...
- Dear Geoffery,Thank you for the resources and thought-provoking questions! I also agree the enthalpy diagram can be misleading to students but for different reasons. Please hear me out and let me know if I am correct/incorrect. The y-axis is...
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- Hi Geoffrey, Okay, thank you! Amy