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Chem 13 News
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November 2019
The November 2019 cover: Carey Bissonnette
A tribute to Dr, Carey Bissonnette by Bill Power
The agony and the ecstasy*: Avogadro and Chem 13 News Exams
Tough questions series - 2006 CHEM 13 NEWS Exam
Tough questions series - 2007 CHEM 13 NEWS Exam
Tough questions series - 2008 CHEM 13 NEWS Exam
Tough questions series - 2009 CHEM 13 NEWS Exam
Tough questions series - 2010 CHEM 13 NEWS Exam
Tough questions series - 2011 CHEM 13 NEWS Exam
Tough questions series - 2012 CHEM 13 NEWS Exam
Tough questions series - 2013 CHEM 13 NEWS Exam
Tough questions series - 2014 CHEM 13 NEWS Exam
2019 Canadian chemistry teacher of the year: François Raymond
The creation of the periodic table by James Marshall
The Bastard Brigade: November's book review
Hidden elements puzzle
Tributes to Carey -
December 2019
- December's cover: Gingerbread mini bath bombs
- Education-enemy #1: Mobile Phones
- December's Letter to the Editor
- Snow: Making life possible in the Arctic
- Invitation to engage
- Chemis-tree carols
- DIY holiday bath bombs
- Chemist's palette puzzle
- The Radioactive Elements: 2019 International Year of the Periodic Table
- The Periodic Table - A Very Short Introduction
- December's cartoon: Off the Mark
- ChemEd 2021 website launched
- Chem Dates for Winter and Spring 2020
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October 2019
We have started planning for the October issue! While you wait, consider contributing your ideas to Chem 13 News magazine! As a starting point, start by taking a photo of something you thought was a classroom success and email us!
And we would love your feedback!!
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April 2019
Ironing out smelting technology
My approach to laboratory work — and everything else
Advice for veteran teachers: how to best guide new teachers
Hidden chemical puzzle
Come for the chemistry, stay for the fun!
Chemistry of the cure: Case studies of some Inuit remedies
A chemical garden
The discovery of the elements: Humphry Davy and the voltaic pile
Timeline of Elements poster -
September 2019
We have started working on the September issue! While you are off this summer, consider contributing and sharing your ideas with Chem 13 News readers! Start by just taking photos from your classroom to be on our front cover.
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April 2019
Coming soon...
Links to articles from September 2012 to February 2019 issues below
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March 2019
The power of empirical evidence
Fluorescing chlorophyll for St. Patrick’s Day
Adjusting study techniques
How to fill a Pringles® box with hydrogen
The Poison Squad
The Ulu: Chemistry and Inuit women’s culture
Understanding heat flow from a coffee cup
Significant features clusters
Elemental compounds puzzle
The discovery of the elements: The miners
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February 2019
Coming soon...
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December 2018 - January 2019
Coming soon
Make me an offer…
Growing a chemistree and a competition
CCC: 2019 exam and 2018 winners
Communicative and therapeutic benefits of stamping
Intriguing Morsels from the Science of Everyday Life
TORNADOES, RAINBOWS, AND CHEMISTRY
Moving out and far far away
ChemEd Reg Friesen Lecturer
Reflectance spectroscopy of a sugar cookie baking
Famous scientists puzzle
Christmas carols
Aladdin’s lamp
Introducing paper chromatography
The egg experiment
A simple electronegativity demonstration device
Using chemistry to clean a teapot
Remembering great chemistry teachers
2019 International Year of the Periodic Table updateCurrent issue November 2018
Issues 2012-October 2018 below
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November 2018
We need to think like economists
Keeping an eye on puddle chemistry
I want to be a doctor
Book review: The Radium Girls
Consider presenting at ChemEd!
Chemical anagrams
Celebrating the decade of the 80s
Famous visitors
Chemical stream puzzle
What’s this?
Invert without a mess
Moles on the shelf
The US penny revealed
PFOS: The newest Artic Pollutant
STAO/APSO Conference
Timeline of elements update
Mendeleev mosaic
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October 2018
October issue in process
Polymer fun
The good fight
Once in a Blue Moon
One pearl of wisdom
Chemistry nomenclature puzzle
What are you doing for Mole Day?
Intermolecular forces and phases of matter
Make Plans for ChemEd 2019!
Lab safety — a puzzle
Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre
Partial pencil pressure
Book review: Chemistry in Your Kitchen
Soy Sauce — An essential Inuit condiment
The (real) reason why chemists need mathematics
Molympics 2018
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September 2018
Rationale for “POPcasso”
The launch of Chem 13 News online publication
Elemental percentages puzzle
My take on significant digits
Sig dig in undergrad labs (Part 1)
New freely-available interactive high school chemistry lessons
The toothpaste challenge
50 years ago we started something special
Celebrating 1968-78 decade
Ramah Bay
7,000 years of Aboriginal culture — and chemistry
Nomenclature nonsense puzzle
2018 Chem 13 News and Avogadro exam winners
Canadian Crystal Growing Competition
2018 Canadian chemistry teacher of the year: Jailson Lima
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May 2018
- Letters to the editor
- Why not start a Chemistry Education Research Group?
- How to be a good lab partner again
- Caesar's last breath
- Decoding the secrets of the air around us
- Creating personalized stirring rods
- 2019 International Year of the Periodic Table: Timeline of Elements
- How many words starting with E?
- Gasoline and diesel fuel: Carbon pricing and heating values
- A coded message
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April 2018
- Letter to the editor: Speed of light in a microwave
- Chem Club at Hilliard Bradley High School
- Dry-erase markers — and the teachable moment
- Low stress chemistry with “hands-on” stoichiometry
- New IUPAC rules make molecular names more pronounceable, friendlier
- How I prepare my students to write university exams…
- Assumptions: Part 2 — Fact versus theory: electronegativity
- Chemistry criss-cross puzzle
- Know the limit and teach within it!
- Part 3: Evolution and revolution
- Variations on egg in the bottle — the gas laws
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February 2018
- Cover: Beautiful copper solutions -- Products of a Remsen demonstration
- A discussion on slime -- letters
- ACCN guest article
- Microwaving a chocolate bar
- Winter Olympics chemistry puzzle
- First day of classes— read your syllabus
- Calorimeter calculations with aqueous electrolytes
- Estimating amazing surface area of the tiny
- Thought lab: Using turmeric as an indicator
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December 2017 - January 2018
- Periodic Table Project update
- Letters to the editor
- What's up with the bell?
- A good problem relating to the gas laws
- An earned "golden" ticket to rewrite
- Nomenclature nonsense
- Holiday chemistry
- Poinsettia indicator holiday decorations
- Function and importance of nanoparticles in catalysis
- 1958 Annual Exam from the Ontario Department of Education
- Book review: Poisons and poisonings - Death by Stealth
- Midterms can be a shock
- Thought lab: Surface area and rate of reaction AP Lab Review - Problem 3
- Analogies and models
- Our school's spaceflight experiment program
- Santa's parents cartoon
- Santa and chemistry sets
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November 2017
- Cover: Quantum dots: Harnessing the nanoscopic rainbow
- Letters to the editor
- Good relationships
- Water from gasoline
- “Close enough” — said no chemist ever!
- Assumptions: Part 1 — Preparing solutions
- Active ingredient content in tablet (a follow up)
- Thought lab: Catalysts and hydrogen peroxide
- Good communication is the key: email
- Book review: The Elements
- Science Fair cartoon
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October 2017
- Cover: Spooky pumpkin
- Letters to the editor
- Lab safety & common sense — not mutually exclusive
- In praise of two-litre soda bottles
- ChemEd 2017 Irwin Talesnick Award: Jean Hein
- The making of a mole
- Thought lab 1: Lime-A-Way
- The chemistry of Alka-Seltzer
- Who knew?
- Mole pattern
- Molympics: The events
- Fascinating chemistry cartoon
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September 2017
- Cover: Home-made match
- 2017 Canadian chemistry teacher of the year: Michael P Jansen
- Thank you… for the struggle
- Percentage purity of calcium carbide — a quick lab
- Just take a breath
- Introducing polarity: claim, evidence, reasoning (CER)
- Cheating: The not-good, the bad and the ugly
- Winning tiles to be added to Periodic Table Project
- A chemistry history puzzle
- Edible candle
- Periodic Table of emission spectra
- Your own peril cartoon
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May 2017
- Cover: Cobalt complex ions: Le Châtelier's Principle
- It doesn't matter how you feel…
- Valuable knowledge
- Think about the chemistry, not the math
- Icebergs and Avogadro's number
- Judging - Oganessian and our stakeholders
- Runners up
- Why scary lab accidents happen
- Photochromic dyes for plastic lenses (part 2)
- AP Chemistry survival
- Final four elemental tiles: Nihonium, Moscovium, Tennessine, Oganesson
- Safety cartoon
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April 2017
- Cover: Evidence of a reaction
- Memories of a chemistry teacher
- Redox and murder (Video recommendation)
- Famous scientists
- Sleep isn't for the weak
- Sorting the atomic model
- Stained glass spiral periodic table
- Early submissions to New Elements Contest
- Net-ionic equations in West Side Story
- Photochromic dyes for plastic lenses: Part 1
- Borax advisory update Health Canada
- Starch in place of borax
- Avogadro Exam 1988: Part 4
- Name this compound for Easter
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March 2017
- Cover: iPhone and prism glasses
- Letter to the editor
- Celebrate our colleagues
- Decoding the chemicals in our food puzzle
- What's in an organic compound name?
- Sources of helium - Some uplifting news
- 2016 Canadian Chemistry Contest: Worst discriminator
- Get your messages
- Periodic graphics of elements
- Early submissions to New Elements Contest
- Racquetball reactions - Concrete examples of abstract concepts
- New Elements Contest
- Avogadro Exam 1988: Part 3
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February 2017
- Cover: Native copper with silver
- Letter to the editor
- Foreshadowing… not just for English teachers
- Cheeky "W" in September 2016
- #clickbaitchem
- Avogadro Exam 1988: Part 2
- Early submissions to New Elements Contest
- Stoichiometry of antacids
- Valentine's su-chem-du
- Our students don't read…
- What on Earth are Tholins?
- 2016 Canadian Chemistry Contest: Best discriminators
- Signature mugs: Seaborg group
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December 2016 - January 2017
- Cover: Littlest chemis-tree
- Letter to the editor
- Seasonal message
- Crossing the Rubicon
- Hydronium ion: Yes or no?
- Comparing the SN1 and SN2 Reactions
- Scavenger hunt
- Chemis-trees revisited
- But sir, the computer ate my homework…and other mystical excuses
- 1988 Avogadro Exam: Part 1
- VSEPR, the easy way
- A buffered vs. a non-buffered solution
- Chemistry in our lives
- Signature mugs: Across the pond - Continental Europe
- First entry to Periodic Table Project New Elements
- Deep thoughts
- Regulation of active ingredient content in tablets
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November 2016
- Cover: Colourful flames
- Letter to the editor
- Shoutout
- Not quite sure…
- Goldilocks
- The Comback Kid
- The logistics of running a practical exam (Part 2)
- Let’s get started
- Messages from the mole
- #clickbait syllabus
- Fentanyl
- University of Waterloo highlights at 2016 STAO/APSO
- The Tale of the Duelling Neurosurgeons
- The Limiting factors of eraser effectiveness
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October 2016
- Cover: Need a light?
- Time theft
- Mole Day celebrations at Waterloo
- Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Teacher replaces written final with a practical lab exam (Part 1)
- Millimole Day is Thursday, October 20 this year
- Mole Day in the Classroom
- Get the ball rolling
- Salty pictures
- ID of an unknown carbonate
- Signature Mugs: Across the pond
- Gak attack!
- Don’t fear your chemistry instructor
- Spooky cookies in a periodic table
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September 2016
- Cover: Let the sparks fly
- Letter to the editor
- Curriculum night
- Education research denialism
- Quotes
- Nihomium, moscovium, tennessine and organesson
- Gadolinium in MRI contrast agents
- Signature mugs: Texas connections
- 2016 Canadian chemistry teacher of the year
- Deadlines are not a suggestion
- National Crystal Growing Competition
- Viscosity success
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May 2016
- Cover: Up close and freezing
- Letters to the editor
- Whatcha gonna do when I’m gone?
- Should Harriet Brooks be on a Canadian banknote?
- Question and answers from the past
- Sharing chemistry with the community: Battle of the blues
- Spoonful of sugar
- Book review:50 Ideas You Really Need to Know - Chemistry
- Signature mugs: Tragedies of oxygen
- Refresh their stoichiometry
- Cartoon
- Equilibrium concept through interactive analogies
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April 2016
- Cover: A crafty chemistry set
- Getting extra yardage: The Crushing Can
- We’ll do it my way… the right way
- AviOrnstein.com: a puzzle and a sample essay, Shared Idea
- Science competition
- Signature mugs: Firsts
- Cold finger distillation
- Chemistry in Pictures contest
- Proper use (I mean chemical educational use) of Facebook!
- Sharing chemistry with the community — Now you don’t (see it)! Now you do!
- Question and answers from the past
- Chemistry in “The Martian” and for a mission to Mars
- Book review: Einstein Relatively Simple
- Caution: wet floor
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March 2016
- Cover: Burning magnesium photo
- Why I hate grading lab reports
- Insoluble… I think not
- Extra yardage out of the floating penny
- Video review: The Poisoner's Handbook
- Easter solutions
- How much is a chemistry teacher worth?
- Sharing chemistry with the community: The chemistry of color
- Chemical rainbow
- Iohexol — a CT scan contrast agent compound containing iodine
- Requirement of laboratory safety training on teacher certification
- Cartoon: Significant digits
- Periodic Table of shelliments
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February 2016
- Cover: Let the sparks fly
- Letter to the editor
- Forget passion — it’s about engagement
- Pizza box spectroscope: Calibration (part 2)
- AP Thermodynamics and Rates of Reaction test: Valentine edition
- Making chemistry relevant to indigenous peoples
- How to make goldenrod paper and some activities
- Sharing chemistry with the community: Chemical sunset
- 2016 Chem 13 News and Avogadro Exams
- Chemmy bear
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December 2015 - January 2016
- Cover: Equipment chemis-tree
- Chemis-tree
- Letter to editor
- Quote
- A chemistry class to begin the year’s work (reprint from 1980)
- A “win-win” lab exam
- Negative temperature?
- Critical pH and Le Châtelier: How everyday substances and habits can dissolve your teeth away
- Book review: Monkey, Myths and Molecules
- Another chemistry Christmas logic puzzle
- "Twas the Night Before Christmas"
- Pizza box spectroscope: Construction (part 1)
- Create ornaments by etching roofing tins
- Mole-nora
- Chemis-tree
- Acid-base titrations with citric acid: part 2
- Sharing chemistry with the community: Limiting and excess reagents
- Using chemistry in a co-op research job
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November 2015
- Cover: Star in a cup
- Ann O’Tate
- Salt in the American Civil War
- Book review: Slow Death by Rubber Duck
- Chemicals in the news
- A different way to do gas laws — Part 3: Pressure-amount relationship
- STAO/APSO Conference, November 12 – 14, 2015
- Chemistry highlights at 2015 STAO/APSO
- The ASA tablet bottle quiz and challenge
- Sharing chemistry with the community: The solubility and alkalinity of ammonia
- Canadian Chemistry Contest for high school and cégep students
- 2015 CCC Exam best discriminating item
- ICE problem cartoon: Prashanth Velayudhan
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October 2015
- Cover: Mole Day fun
- Periodic table of Rice Krispies squares
- Sublimation of iodine: Rise and fall of a misconception
- First year chemistry: Multiple choice madness
- Not just red eyes and it’s not just the pee
- A different way to do gas laws — Part 2: Pressure-temperature relationship
- Redox in the news
- Oxygen and hydrogen go to a pool party cartoon
- Sharing chemistry with the community: Chemistry and our health
- A revolution for feminism in France
- Periodic table of horrors
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September 2015
- Cover: Smoldering reaction
- Letters to the editor
- Sodium and potassium reacting with water, in the absence of air
- What’s your (chemistry) fantasy?
- Bismuth in pharmaceuticals: more than Pepto-Bismol
- A different way to do gas laws — Part 1: Pressure-volume relationship
- Water door decor
- Winning crystals
- 2015 Chem 13 News and Avogadro prizes
- Beaumier Award for High School/CÉGEP Chemistry Teachers
- Sharing Chemistry with the Community: “C” the difference
- Book review: Molecules That Amaze Us
- Stacey's top ten lab rules
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May 2015
- Cover: Bubbles on fire
- Celebrate!!!
- When kids cheat...
- Letters to the editor
- ‘Whoosh Tube’ demonstration (alternative to the bottle)
- Boiling water demo: Much more than meets the eye
- Sharing chemistry with the community: Bubble-ology part 2
- Ready for university chemistry? Have students use our online self-diagnosis tool
- Book review: The Teenage Brain
- Some do's and don'ts of chemistry tests: Prepare, write and reflect
- How to get started with educational research
- Welcoming students to chemistry
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April 2015
- Cover: Beautiful Chemistry website
- Letters to the editor
- Vive la science!
- Flipping the chemistry classroom series: Part 5
- Nanotechnology: Bringing it safely into the classroom
- Bubble-ology part 1
- Beyond the “lecture” theatre: First-year chemistry learning resources
- The fermentation of sugars using yeast: A discovery experiment
- Engaging story on Marguerite Perey
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March 2015
Cover: ‘Whoosh Bottle’
Letter to the editor
It's cold outside…your comfort zone
Flipping the chemistry classroom series: part 4 (the classroom)
Chemical in the news: Osmium tetroxide
Why educational research matters to you: Parachutes, particles, bonding and “good enough” models
Mole art
Sharing Chemistry with the Community: ‘Elephant’s toothpaste’
Book review: Stuff Matters
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February 2015
- Cover: Scientists in love
- Letters to the editor
- A chemical compound by any other name…
- Book review: Denalism - How Irrational Thinking Harms the Planet and Threatens Our Lives
- Flipping the chemistry classroom series: part 3
- Handouts worth keeping by Cation Designs
- What colour is P4?
- Electrochemistry on the move
- Burning magnesium in a Bunsen flame and other flame experiments
- Should we upgrade photosynthesis and grow supercrops?
- Tough question from the 2014 CHEM 13 NEWS Exam
- Using your Valentine’s Day chocolates to demonstrate density
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December 2014 - January 2015
- Cover: Collection of Chemis-tree
- Letter to the editor
- Formal lab reports must die
- Re: Why are these tough questions?
- Reaction types energize learning
- Flipping the chemistry classroom series: part 2
- Finding equilibrium and deconstructing misconceptions with Nano Hexbugs(TM)
- The last day before winter vacation
- Foaming chemis-tree
- Knitting for chemistry
- Rustic “chemis-tree” wreath lab: Iron-copper single displacement reaction
- Sharing chemistry with the community: The case of the missing bunny
- Natural gas (methane) and propane as fuel gases
- O Little Endpoint I Did Miss
- Book review: The Joy of Chemistry
- Two weeks theory, followed by two weeks lab
- Colourful milk demo
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November 2014
- Cover: A bright star
- “Don’t mail matches”
- Book review: Mad Science 2
- Best “Rate my professor” comment
- Flipping the chemistry classroom series: part 1
- Sharing chemistry with the community: Follow up
(Oxidation of carbohydrates using chlorate salts) - Why study chemistry?
- Getting to know you!
- Periodic Table Project update
- Canadian Chemistry Contest for high school and cégep students
- Why educational research matters to you: Rote vs meaningful learning
- Acid-base titrations with citric acid: part 1
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October 2014
- Cover: A Mole Day greeting card
- Strategy and tactics
- An 1860 blood test for you to try
- Sharing chemistry with the community: How to blow out a light bulb
- CEMPAZUCHITL, a puzzle celebrating the Mexican Day of the Dead
- ECCNvideos: Free online demonstrations for students and teachers
- A National Chemistry Week outreach project Periodic Table of LEGO®
- NO FeAr Science Club
- Plan to have a sweet National Chemistry Week
- Learning styles: fact and fiction
- Chemicals in the news: Azodicarbonamide
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September 2014
- Cover: Science and beauty in a soap bubble
- Letters to the editor
- We are (almost) all mentors
- Stop, drop and roll
- Translating research into classroom practice
- The creative stimulus
- Why is my tire flat?
- Jumping onto a moving train
- Beaumier Award for High School/CÉGEP Chemistry Teachers
- Canada’s National Crystal Growing competition
- All kids should have these…
- Why are these tough questions?
- Student teacher’s life lessons
- Songs with an elemental twist
- Unexpected misconception
- Compressed organic class
- Book review: Nuts and Bolts of Chemical Education Research
- So why the lack of chemists?
- Graham’s law of diffusion — a quantitative demonstration
- A little help from my friends
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May 2014
- Cover: Lycopodium powder
- Letters to the editor
- A strange factoid about a zinc supplement
- Sharing… goes beyond kindergarten
- Phasing out the demo
- Taking the poisonous bite out of cyanide and avoiding other poisons
- An all-natural banana
- What we can teach with hybrid orbitals
- Chemicals in the news: Chemical explosion
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April 2014
- Cover: Egg-cellent little demo for spring
- Letters to the editor
- The real value of lab technicians
- Viewpoint: Why do people hate the word “chemicals”?
- Organic molecules of everyday life.12. Triclosan
- Canadian Chemical News gets schooled
- Glenforest's wall-sized periodic table!
- Sharing chemistry with the community: “Molding a thermoplastic”
- Molding a thermoplastic
- Acids and bases: Why the confusion?
- Acid-base titrations 2: the acid content of individual sour hard candies
- Is aluminum amphoteric? A picture is worth 1 x 103words
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March 2014
- Cover: Ammonia and hydrochloric acid
- Kathy Kitzmann wins James Bryant Conant Award
- Chance discovery favours the prepared mind
- Forget about saving the planet, I just want to eat my snacks in peace
- The American Chemical Society to fund American Association of Chemistry Teachers (AACT)
- Use and misuse of technology in the university chemistry classroom
- Princeton Day School’s periodic table
- ChemEd 2013 workshops
- Sharing chemistry with the community: A colorful catalyst
- Para-Chlorobenzotrifluoride (PCBTF) – the ‘super-solvent’
- Book review: The Case of the Poisonous Socks, Tales from Chemistry
- Singing Flame Tube at ChemEd 2013
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February 2014
- Cover: Ignite your passion
- Letters to the editor
- Orbital hybridization — the stork
- Xylenes — A cautionary tale
- Part 2: Showing/doing chemistry using minimum-cost resources
- Chemistry murals
- Sharing chemistry with the community: “The Exploding Gummy Bear”
- Chemistry: Its bond with the past
- A Chemistry Olympiad question in Canadian context
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December 2013 - January 2014
- Cover: Chemis-tree
- Letters to the editor
- Book review: The Half-Life of Facts - How Everything We Know Has An Expiration Date
- Stop telling us how to do our job
- Organic molecules of everyday life. 11. Frankincense and myrrh
- A CD review: 2010 41st Annual Once Upon a Christmas Cheery In the Lab
- Holiday molecules
- Measuring CO2 at Mauna Loa
- Student activity: Calibration at Mauna Loa
- Carving a can with chemistry
- Sharing chemistry with the community: Polyurethane foam smoothies
- Student-created ceramic periodic table
- Chemistry using minimum-cost resources, Part 1
- Does teaching need changing?*
- ChemEd 2013 traditional Mole Day Run
- Deleted scene from Breaking Bad that a chemistry teacher can relate to
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November 2013
- Cover: The Ramp of Science
- Diffusion of ions
- “Who is the antiquirk?” A chemical analogy
- Mysterious gas riddle — a discussion
- ChemEd 2013 So You Think You Can Demo contest
- Microscale hints from across the pond
- What’s your kryptonite?
- Tough questions from 2013 CHEM 13 NEWS exam
- Canada nabs triple bronze
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October 2013
- Cover: Mole Day Celebrations in Quebec
- Chemistry: It’s not fun
- Acid-base titrations: comparing the acid content of low-acid fruit juices to regular fruit juices
- ‘Twas the night before Mole Day'
- Mole handwarmers
- “The chemistry of US currency – Magnetic ink” Sharing chemistry with the community
- Nanotechnology at Waterloo: Impressions of a first-year student
- What to do if your dog gets skunked
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September 2013
- Cover: Floating coins
- A mole of lightning
- New trends and developments of solid phase microextraction (SPME)
- Chemistry explosions are all bang and no buck
- Book review: On Fact and Fraud – Cautionary tales from the front lines of science
- Polarity demos
- Mysterious gas riddle
- Cartoon: Mediation, Joy of Tech
- Shout-out: Neat little trick for gas laws
- Sharing chemistry with the community: “Walking on Oobleck”
- Percent water in green crystalline compound: An inquiry lab
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May 2013
- Cover: Beauty of surface tension, spheres and attractive forces
- Letter to the editor
- An almost forgotten simplification…
- Organic molecules of everyday life: 10. Hexenal
- Public enemy number one?
- Concentration of urine in a pool
- Skeletal formulae revisited
- Book review:The Violinist’s Thumb and Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius as Written by Our Genetic Code
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April 2013
- Cover: A thermite blast
- Chemistry in the news: Doping
- Does solid lithium hydrogen carbonate exist?
- Ten first-year chemistry student studying misconceptions
- Successful AP Chemistry lab sequence converted to inquiry approach
- Photo challenge: what is it?
- Sharing chemistry with the community: Propane Bubbles
- Professor Wildi’s Visualization of Units pages for unit conversions
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March 2013
- Cover: Copper wire in silver nitrate solution
- Letters to the editor
- Book review:The Violinist’s Thumb and Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius as Written by Our Genetic Code
- Oh Henry story
- Filter paper riddle
- Demystifying the Poly Density Bottle
- Reaction animation old style
- Dogs teaching chemistry
- The mole
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December 2012 - January 2013
- Cover: Oh Chemis-tree
- Out. . . Friends. . . Stuff . . . Later
- Book review: Radioactivity of a Mysterious Science
- Revisiting an equilibrium demo from a classic resource
- Qualitative analysis of a redox reaction
- Snow exploratory
- Gravimetric titration: simple, buret-free, and high precision
- The birth of Chem Ed conferences – The genie in a bottle
- Periodic Table with CD cases
- Sharing chemistry with the community: Burning steel wool demonstration
- Redox card games
- The Canadian Chemistry Contest — examples of questions
- Fertilizing the ocean
- An olympiad question about antibiotics
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November 2012
- Cover: Glowing dyes
- Letters to the editor
- There are no shortcuts
- PM2.5 pollution on Science 2.0
- An unusual and simply prepared compound of copper
- STAO 2011: Rusty iron balls
- Demistry of candles and flames
- Sharing chemistry with the community: Miniature Whoosh Bottle Demonstration
- Science poem
- Book review: Denying Science - Conspiracy Theories, Media Distortions and the War Against Reality
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October 2012
- Cover Mole Cartoon
- Chem rant
- Halloween shout-outs
- A tactile approach
- The 2012 Olympic Games... in Washington DC!
- A DVD review: The New Chem Source
- Why atoms, anyway? Teaching the origins of the atomic idea
- Periodic table cupcakes using tile flags
- Smiles in chemistry from birthdays to Mole Days
- Chemistry helps shine a light on a paleontological mystery
- Chem Mad Gab
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September 2012
- Cover: Mesmerized by bubbles
- Letter to the editor
- Hunting the Elements
- Communicate with your students using Twitter
- Chemistry Twitter favorites
- Pet peeve: skeletal organic formulas
- New period in the periodic table?
- Element 119 - Turning a line
- Timely science humour
- Periodic Table Project wall mural installation
- iPod version Periodic Table Project
- Names for elements 114 and 116
- Design the new elemental tiles for the Periodic Table Project
- Ode to Mendeleev
- ChemEd conference memories
- JCE welcomes new precollege editors
- Have things changed in 25 years?
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April 2012
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March 2012
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