AUS-e-NEWS

AUS-e-NEWS is AUS-e-TUTE's own free quarterly newsletter for chemistry teachers and students.

To subscribe to AUS-e-NEWS:

1. Email
2. Type "subscribe" as the subject of the email

Each edition of AUS-e-NEWS contains:

• A feature article (placing the chemistry students learn in an interesting, relevant context)
• Suggestions for further reading (links to AUS-e-TUTE tutorials relevant to the article)
• Suggestions for practical investigations that students could design and conduct
• Questions for students to answer based on the chemistry in the article
• A student tip (based on common student misconceptions or mistakes when answering questions based on the chemistry in the article)
• A chemistry joke (related to the chemistry in the article ofcourse)
• A puzzle (based on the chemistry in the article)

AUS-e-NEWS is emailed out in:

• March
• June
• September
• December

Please do not block ads on this website.
No ads = no money for us = no free stuff for you!

Current Issue March 2019: Mendeleev's Biggest Failure (History of the Periodic Table)

Previous Issues of AUS-e-NEWS include feature articles on:

• Water-Soluble Plastic
  (polymers, reaction schema)
• Bleach
  (reaction types, rates, safety, redox titration)
• Explosive Medicine
  (esters, kinetics, thermochemistry)
• Sodium Bicarbonate
  (reaction types, acids and bases)
• Chemistry Rockets to Mars
  (reaction stoichiometry)
• Food From Toxic Cycads
  (Water Solubility)
• Airbags
  (Reaction Stoichiometry)
• Intravenous Anaesthetics
  (Structure and Solubility)
• Molecular Machines
  (Nanotechnology)
• Salt from Seawater
  (Solubility of salts in water)
• Candle-lit Chemistry
  (Combustion of paraffin candles)
• Polylactic Acid (PLA)
  (Synthesis and degradation)
• Lanthanoids (lanthanides)
  (Structure, Extraction, Uses)
• Coral Reef Dissolution
  (K_sp and buffers)
• Chemistry of Heat Packs and Cold Packs
  (Heat of Solution)
• Chemistry of Jelly (Jell-O)
  (Composition of jelly, action of pineapple's bromelin enzyme on jelly)
• Graphene
  (History, structure, possible uses)
• Trans Fats
  (Structure, digestion, margarine production)
• Aldehydes in Cooking Oil
  (Structure of oils and aldehydes)
• Polymer Banknotes
  (Polyethylene and polypropylene: structure and properties, usage in polymer backnotes)
• Superglue and Fingerprints
  (Cyanoacrylates: structure, uses)
• Super Slurpers
  (sodium polyacrylate: synthesis and properties)
• Chemistry of Glowsticks
  (Chemical reactions used to produce coloured light)
• Aspartame
  (History, synthesis, chemical and physical properties)
• Green Fluoroescent Protein
  (Structure of GFP)
• Quasicrystals
  (Unit cells, Bravais crystal structures, and the recently identified quasicrystals)
• Cement
  (Production of cement, chemical reactions and uses)
• Superacids
  (Comparison of Brønsted-Lowry acids with superacids, examples and description of some superacids)
• Ethanol in Petrol
  (comparing energy produced by combustion of standard petrol, and of petrol with added ethanol)
• Ice Calorimeter
  (Lavoisier and Laplace's original 18^th century experiment to measure heat of combustion)
• ALICE Rocket Fuel
  (Alternative fuels to power rockets)
• Galvanizing
  (Hot dip galvanizing: production of alloys changes properties of steel)
• Baghdad Batteries
  (Enigmatic 3^rd century B.C. copper lined clay pots found near Baghdad)
• Ethanol Fuel Cells
  (Introduction to fuel cells, limitations)
• Make Your Own Fuel Cell
  (Practical investigation: requires aluminium can, hydrogen peroxide, salt, copper wires)
• How Many Elements Can We Make?
  (Transuranium elements: history, limits to number of possible elements)
• Copernicium: Element 112
  (structure and synthesis)
• Radium and Polonium
  (Discovery, structure, radioactivity, uses)
• Why Fish Don't Freeze
  (antifreeze protein in Arctic fish: structure and use)
• Methylene Blue
  (structure and uses)
• Methyl Orange
  (Azo dye example: structure and uses)
• Fireworks Colours
  (introduction to emission spectroscopy)
• Relenza Synthesis
  (multistep organic synthesis of this drug used to treat influenza)
• Hannan's Find
  (thermal decomposition to extract gold from gold tellurides)
• Acetylene By Accident
  (carbon reduction metal extraction produces calcium carbide)

Finished your chemistry course and want to unsubscribe?

Not teaching chemistry any more and want to unsubscribe?

To unsubscribe:

• Email
• Type "unsubscribe" as the subject.

We'll remove you from the mailing list on receipt of your email.