The Chemistry of Limescale
Limescale is a substance you’ve undoubtedly encountered, be it clogging up your kettle, or building up on your bathroom surfaces. But how…
View ArticleCommon Polyatomic Ions: Names, Formulae, and Charges
Know your sulfates from your sulfites, and your chlorates from your perchlorates? This graphic gives a helping hand with remembering the names,…
View ArticleCapturing Neon in a Metal-Organic Framework
Here’s the latest graphic from Chemunicate (the Compound Interest side project that works with chemistry researchers and institutions to highlight their research…
View ArticleA Guide to Acids, Acid Strength, and Concentration
Even if you’re not a chemist, you’ll doubtless remember learning about acids back in school. They’re routinely described as strong or weak,…
View ArticleThe Nobel Prize Medals (and How to Make Them Disappear)
Next week, the winners of this year’s batch of Nobel Prizes will be announced. Every winner receives a Nobel Prize medal, featuring…
View ArticleRealTimeChem Week: Developing Advanced Lithium Ion Batteries
This week (31 Oct – 6 Nov) is #RealTimeChem Week – if you’re a tweeting chemist or chemistry enthusiast, you’ll probably know…
View ArticleWhy Lithium-Ion Batteries Catch Fire – in C&EN
In this month’s Periodic Graphics in C&EN, we’re looking at the chemistry behind the recent news stories of lithium-ion batteries in some…
View ArticleA Basic Guide to How LED Lights Work
Christmas isn’t far off now, and whether you’re celebrating it or not, you may well have started seeing Christmas lights starting to…
View ArticleHow did ammonite fossils form?
If you’ve ever gone combing beaches for ammonite fossils, you might have wondered about the processes which produced them. They can come…
View ArticleThe 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Quantum dots, tiny particles with big colours
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov for the…
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