Chemistry
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- Brief History of Poisoning
- Acidity and Basicity
- Alcohol
- Alfred Nobel - Chemist, Inventor, and Engineer
- Alkanals
- Alkanes
- Alkanoic acids
- Alkanols
- Alkanones
- Alkenes
- Alkynes
- Allotropy - Some Familiar Examples
- Atoms and Atomic Structure
- August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818 - 1892)
- Bacteriophages
- Baron Justus von Liebig (1803 - 1873)
- Batteries - Energy on the Move
- Blue - the Pigment of the Chemist's Imagination
- Boron
- CS Gas
- Caffeine
- Canned Compressed Air
- Carbon and its Inorganic Compounds
- Carbon60 - Buckminsterfullerene
- Chemical Cock-Ups: The 1921 Oppau Disaster and its Aftermath
- Chemical Cock-ups: A Story of How Not to Name a Chemical Compound
- Chemistry of Group 13 - Al, Ga, In, Tl
- Chemistry of the Group 1 Elements - Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Fr
- Chemistry of the Group 11 Elements - Copper, Silver and Gold
- Chemistry of the Group 12 Elements - Zn, Cd, Hg
- Chemistry of the Group 2 Elements - Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Ra
- Classic Poisons
- Common Salt (Sodium Chloride)
- Czochralski Crystal Growth Method
- Decompression Sickness
- Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev - Chemist
- Dopamine
- Ecstasy - the drug
- Elastane
- Element Number 42 - Molybdenum
- Erich Huckel - Scientist
- Esters
- Evaporating Thin Films of Carbon60
- Fire - And What Can Be Done About It
- Fireworks
- Friedrich August Kekule (1829 - 1896)
- Friedrich Wohler (1800 - 1882)
- Further Information about Organic Chemistry
- Gas State Equations
- Genetic Weapons
- Gold
- Gram Stain Technique
- Gregor Mendel and the Basics of Genetics
- History of Chemistry - Acids and Bases
- History of Chemistry - Noble Gases
- How Hair Conditioner Works
- How Proteins are Made
- How Soap Works
- How to Extract Your Own DNA
- Hydrogen
- International Chemistry Olympiad
- Introduction to Chemical Formulae
- Ion Exchanger
- Ions
- Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (1835 - 1917)
- Joseph Priestley (1733 - 1804)
- Kevlar
- LSD
- Lab Specs
- Leopold Gmelin (1788 - 1853)
- Liquid Smoke
- Making a Chemical Garden
- Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
- Metals, their Properties and Reactivity - a Beginners' Guide
- Microscopes
- Mohs Scale of Hardness
- Molecular Orbital Theory of Chemical Bonding
- Names and Origins of the Elements
- Nitrogen Narcosis
- Organic Chemistry
- Orpiment and Realgar
- Oxidation Numbers and the Naming of Compounds
- PTFE - The Most Slippery Substance in the World
- Phlogiston
- Photosynthesis
- Polonium
- Quasicrystals
- Robert Wilhelm Bunsen (1811 - 1899)
- Size Matters: How big are molecules?
- Some Cold, Hard Facts About Ice
- Statistical Thermodynamics
- Stirring Powders into Liquids
- Sunscreen
- Chemical Origins of the Shroud of Turin
- Creation of Carbon-12
- Dangers of Mixing Bleach and Ammonia
- Effects of Krypton on Your Voice
- Elements: Names and Origins - A-E
- Elements: Names and Origins - F-N
- Elements: Names and Origins - O-Z
- History of the Periodic Table of the Elements
- Longest Word
- Mole (Chemistry)
- Periodic Table of the Elements
- Physical Chemistry behind the Periodic Table
- Specifics of Noble Gases
- Thermit Reaction
- Tin Pest
- Useful Enzymes and Their Applications in Industry and Medicine
- Valence Bond Theory of Chemical Bonding
- Vitamins in Nutrition
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