Chemistry Resources (page 13)

In my experience, students embark on Chemistry A level or BTEC courses unaware of how Maths will influence their progress. Highly-numerate students (those with GCSE grade B or better ...

Chemical and ionic equations All chemical equations must be balanced. This means that the number of atoms of each element must be same on both sides of the equation. The followi...

Many years ago, one of my tasks at a pharmaceutical research establishment was to see if it were possible to make 2-ethyloxazoline cheaper than it cost the company to buy it. The rout...

Diazaphenothiazines have been used for many years in the control of certain psychopathic conditions such as schizophrenia. Whist doing research at University I wondered about replacin...

We`ve all sat down with our text book ready to have a really good note making session and ended up copying out whole sections of the book. For my AS revision I pretty much did just en...

Covalent bonding, ionic bonding or metallic bonding.... What is the difference and how do you know which one is happening in a molecule? In this article lets look at metallic bo...

Cyclic voltammetry is the most extensively used technique for attaining qualitative information regarding electrochemical reactions. It suggests a swift location of redox potentials o...

Well now you have done your revision, you have tried past papers and looked up the info you don`t know so you get some good results, then you tried a timed mock and at least 3 past p...

BUFFER SOLUTIONS A buffer solution is a solution which can resist changes in pH on addition of small quantities of acid or alkali or on dilution. 1. How buffers work A buffer ...

Definitions - Atomic Structure Atomic number: the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom Mass number: the total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom ...