List of AUS-e-NEWS Feature Articles
Current Issue December 2022: Cooking vs Chemistry (word equations, chemical equations, stoichiometry)
Previous Issues of AUS-e-NEWS include feature articles on:
⚛ Slime!
(polymerisation, polymers)
⚛ Let's Go SCUBA Diving!
(Kinetic Theory of Gases, Avogadro's Principle, Molar Volume of Gases, Boyle's Law, Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures, Henry's Law)
⚛ Milk Fraud
(percent by mass, acid-base titration, back titration)
⚛ Energy from Hydrogen
(thermochemistry, bond enthalpy, enthalpy change for reactions)
⚛ Tooth Decay and Prevention
(Le Chatelier's Principle and solubility, Ksp)
⚛ Recovering Gold from e-Waste
(electrochemistry)
⚛ Emergency Oxygen
(equilibrium, stoichiometry)
⚛ How to Kill a Virus
(lipids, surface chemistry/surfactants)
⚛ Nitrogen vs Air in Car Tyres
(ideal gases)
⚛ Lithium-Ion Batteries
(batteries)
⚛ Micellar Water
(surface chemistry, detergents, IUPAC organic nomenclature)
⚛ 24 Carat Chemistry
(concentration as w/w or m/m, percentage composition, purity, alloys)
⚛ Mendeleev's Biggest Failure
(History of the Periodic Table)
⚛ 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
(Ksp 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 18th 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 3rd 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)
↪ Back to top
