News and information from Stamford School's Chemistry Department
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Chemistry Dept retweeted
Happy 189th birthday to Dmitri Mendeleev, who formulated the Periodic Law and created a version of the periodic table of elements.
To celebrate this anniversary, follow us on a whistle-stop tour of the 10 elements discovered or isolated here at the Ri!
ALT Dmitri Mendeleev wearing a party hat. We photoshopped a candle in his hand because we now know smoking is not cool.
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The Stamford School team enjoying the lab challenge at the Top of the Bench competition at the University of Derby last Saturday!
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Chemistry Dept retweeted
5 Oct 2022
BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”
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19 Jun 2022
Last-minute H432/02 revision session! Don’t panic folks! Good luck tomorrow (and read the question!)
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7 Dec 2021
Top of the Bench online test in progress - lots of thinking going on! 🧐 @RSCEastMidlands
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A great info sheet from @compoundchem about fireworks and how they make their sounds. Some good links to physics here as well as chemistry.
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Chemistry Dept retweeted
6 Oct 2021
BREAKING NEWS:
The 2021 #NobelPrize in Chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.”
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4 Oct 2021
Even Nobel Prize medals aren’t what they used to be! 😥
3 Oct 2021
Thank you to the pupil helpers at Open Day yesterday. Here are some of them looking (mostly) happy!
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Chemistry Dept retweeted
3 Sep 2021
#OnThisDay in 1803, John Dalton FRS used symbols to represent the atoms of elements in a notebook entry entitled "Observations on the Ultimate Particles of Bodies and their Combinations." This was the first use of symbols to represent the modern elements: bit.ly/3ySr34Z
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30 Jun 2021
Year 9 today attempting their escape from the ‘fiendish’ Chemistry Escape Room today! #ssenrichmentweek
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