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12 Days of Chemical Calculations – 2

  • by P Banks
  • Posted on December 12, 2015December 8, 2015
  • 12 days of calculations

Amount of substance Find the number of moles present in the following 12g Carbon12 32g Water (H2O) 50g Magnesium 100g Iron (III) Oxide (Fe2O3) 1,250 tonnes Iron (III) Oxide (Fe2O3) Find the mass of substance when […]

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12 Days of Chemical Calculations – 1

  • by P Banks
  • Posted on December 11, 2015December 8, 2015
  • 12 days of calculations

Merry Christmas to all Chemstuff followers! Over the next 12 days get ready for 12 christmas presents of chemical calculations (You can’t say I never treat you to anything!) Please show your working as much […]

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Displacement reactions

  • by P Banks
  • Posted on December 21, 2012December 23, 2012
  • A-Level
  • Video

Quick question from a student… How do displacement reactions work …  Also, how does it ‘replace’ the less reactive element???? We’ve studied displacement reactions before, by looking at reactions of metals. More reactive metals will […]

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Snow Chemistry

  • by P Banks
  • Posted on December 9, 2012December 22, 2012
  • A-Level

It’s that time of the year when Chemstuff becomes all festive again and snow visits the website to make the place just a little bit more Christmas-y. I was digging through the archives and discovered this […]

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Shapes of Molecules…

  • by P Banks
  • Posted on December 8, 2012December 22, 2012
  • A-Level

As you prepare for your revision, why not look at this app to help you visualise the shapes of molecules, you should also visit the new chemstuff page with all the exam details for the […]

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Struggling with shells after Calcium

  • by P Banks
  • Posted on October 17, 2012December 22, 2012
  • A-Level

As we’ve just finished looking at electronic structure I found a beauty of a periodic table showing all the electron shells for all of the elements in the periodic table as “dot & cross” diagrams. […]

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Euro 2012 Kickoff

  • by P Banks
  • Posted on June 8, 2012September 9, 2012
  • A-Level

With the start of Euro 2012, today’s post looks at Buckyballs. A Buckyball is a compound made only of carbon in the form of a sphere, looking much like a football! Buckyballs are types of […]

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Things you may have missed on chemstuff…

  • by P Banks
  • Posted on June 8, 2012September 9, 2012
  • A-Level

Over the past few weeks there have been several updates to the chemstuff pages which you may have missed. The pages for year 7, year 8 and year 9 have all been updated with more […]

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Chemistry of money

  • by P Banks
  • Posted on June 7, 2012September 9, 2012
  • A-Level

Today’s news has returned to the discussion of many of the financial problems currently hitting the euro zone, and following on from yesterdays Chemstuff post on rare earth elements, I thought I would post about […]

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Revision techniques…

  • by P Banks
  • Posted on June 7, 2012June 7, 2012
  • A-Level

Originally posted on LiaPerry:
So, as i find it really hard to just get on and start my revision, I decided i would revise through a blog that would hopefully help some other people as…

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