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Hi Students (and Parents),
With GCE ‘O’ Level Examinations coming in less than 5 months time, how many of you are prepared for it?
Not sure? Take a look at your Mid-Year Examination Paper + Sec 3 End-of Year Paper + Continual Assessment Tests recently. If you are not scoring B3 and above, it might shows that [...]
A recent report from the President’s Cancer Panel on the environmental causes of cancer* had a rather interesting recommendation relevant to chemists. As to what you could do to lower your risk and your family’s, here’s what it said (page 111):
“Family exposure to numerous occupational chemicals can be reduced by removing shoes before entering the [...]
(Geodesic Domes @ Eden Project in Cornwall. Photo Credit)
In Chemical Bonding chapter of Basic Chemistry Syllabus (O Levels, etc), you have learned about the term Allotropes as well as Macromolecules.
To be more exact, you learned that Allotropes = Compounds with the same element with different structure.
The two examples you learned are Diamond and Graphite, which [...]
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Besides sharing Chemistry Tips and Exam Strategies, the other aim of this chemistry blogsite is to encourage students to learn the Chemistry Theories and Concepts in a more experiential and interesting way – HOW ? By relating chemistry theories to everyday life processes and experience.
Thermit Process came to my mind several [...]
Recently, i received several emails and comments from readers (students) to share more challenging Mole Calculations (or Mole Concepts) questions in this chemistry blog. So here we go………..
Question:
What would be the concentration of the hydrochloric acid produced if all the hydrogen chloride gas from the reaction between 50g of pure sulfuric acid and an excess [...]
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Books, Books, Books! They are something we cannot do without – be it in leisure (novels, magazines, etc), academic (school textbooks, revision books, workbooks, etc) or self-improvement (motivation, self-development, etc).
Even with the advance of technology, the kindle, the ipad, the macbook, the netbook, etc – we all still need and want books.
In fact [...]
Ok, so maybe they were originally talking about his math homework… but the joke’s still funny
In my travels here and about online, I recently found the paintings of Alexander Kobulnicky. He paints molecular models of, well, molecules, ranging from the life-giving (“Heme”, to the left) to the fun-related (THC, if that’s your thing) to the life-taking (CO.) The background of the artwork is most noteworthy — Mr. Kobulnicky paints what [...]