I'm pleased to announce that you can now buy a Chinese (traditional) periodic table poster at the WebElements shop.
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I'm pleased to announce that you can now buy the Orbitron atomic orbitals poster at the WebElements shop.
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Happy Thanksgiving, all!
ASPEX is initiating a Name That Sample contest. Head over to the ASPEX site to cast your vote. Voting ends 11:59pm Friday night. The winner will win a 1Gb flash drive courtesy of ASPEX. Here’s Volume 1’s mystery picture:
The ACS-IREU Program is Welcoming Applications for Participation in summer 2010. This NSF-funded international research program provides opportunities for undergraduates majoring in chemistry, biochemistry, materials science or chemical engineering to conduct intensive research for 10 weeks in laboratories in France, Italy, Germany, or the UK To qualify, students must be in their sophomore or junior year, have one semester or summer of prior research experience, and must be US citizens or permanent US residents. Members of underrepresented minority groups are encouraged to apply.
Student science geeks will be going to the White House, that is what caught my attention from Obama’s remarks on his “Education To Innovate” campaign delivered Monday. Student winners in national competitions in science, technology, and robotics will be eligible to display their know-how to Obama at a White House science fair. The exact dates [...]
A while ago, we had an offer from ASPEX, a microanalysis company, to provide a free SEM scan of an object of our choosing (that post being a follow up to our M&M mystery post). The stir bar won and was sent away, never to return.
The results are in, and they are as cool as [...]
Kyle Finchsigmate
One of the pioneering chemistry blogs closed their doors earlier this month. As a brethren to the class of 2006 [1], I feel the need to pay homage to the great Kyle Finchsigmate’s influential chemical blog. TheChemBlog came online in June of ‘06 and with his anonymity still intact he was able to get [...]
A recent comic from SMBC, one of my favorite web comics.
Mitch
Just a quick note to thank:
1) Students that have joined and completed our weekly cosaching programmes (under Ultimate Leap Programme) as well as our various Chemistry Workshops and June Intensive Revision Programmes.
It has been my pleasure to be able to coach you all. Remember this saying: “When the students is ready, the master will [...]
After a week long of intensive and focus preparation, the Score 100% Chemistry MCQ Mastery Workshop for 2009 ‘O’ Level students was succesful completed yesterday. There were about 40 participants and we had great fun in the day-long intensive workshop which aimed to give them the final tool (and push) to “Up Their Chemistry Grades”!
Who [...]
Microscopy: Technique relies solely on light that nonfluorescent compounds absorb
In previous blogpost, we have discussed on the method of revision for GCE ‘O’ Level Examinations.
At this point of writing, students in Singapore would have finished their 1st set of 2010 ‘O’ Level exam paper. Hope everyone reading this blog enjoyed yourself today.
(Photo courtesy of kevinkoonz)
For Chemistry, many of you should have finished revision by [...]
If you have been following this chemistry website for awhile, you would have noticed the recent blogposts to inform all students based in Singapore about the printing errors in Marshall Cavendish “Chemistry Matters” reference textbook, as follows:
Error on Page 271 – under Electrolysis
Error on Page 393 – under Organic Chemistry
We have written to Marshall Cavendish [...]
2009 GCE ‘O’ Levels Examinations will start in few days time. If you are a student based in Singapore, you must be excited it.
Hope you are revising well for Chemistry Exams. In any case that you would like more challenging exam-based questions to discuss – check out the following questions on Salts!
Question 1:
Which of [...]
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Students in Singapore taking GCE ‘O’ Levels Chemistry Exams and using Marshall Cavendish’s Chemistry Matters as Reference Textbook
Besides the error on Electrolysis Topic that we have posted earlier, there is another error spotted in Organic Chemistry. It is shown on page 393 under “Test Yourself 22.1 – Worked Example”.
As we all know, Carbon (C) is [...]
Dear GCE ‘O’ Level (as well as IP) students using Marshall Cavendish Chemistry Textbook as reference text,
Please note that there is a printing error in the chemistry textbook (third impression 2008) that many of you did not realised (just like many of my students, until recently).
The error in print is on Page 271 under the [...]
Time really flies! We are at the end of the academic year for Singapore secondary levels.
Year 2009 had been an exciting year for us @ Winners Education Group.
We have conducted extensive series of Math (A- and E-Math) & Chemistry Workshops Mastery Workshops during the school holidays as well as our weekly coaching classes under Ultimate [...]In about 2 weeks time, Singapore Students will be taking their GCE ‘O’ Level Examinations.
Many of you are also having your ’study week’ where school lessons has finally ended and you are given the time (2 weeks) to sit down and thoroughly revise through your notes, books, and previous test/exam papers.
For GCE ‘O’ Level Chemistry [...]Attention: Quick Note for GCE ‘O’ Level Pure Chemistry students in Singapore
Many students who ace Chemistry know the importance of MCQ (Paper 1), in fact many of them edge out their friends by doing exceptionally well for MCQ to achieve their As in O levels. Based on the information from previous years’ students, many smart [...]