Kit Chapman
Course leader, MA Journalism, Falmouth University at Freelance
Lecturer, @FalmouthUni. Globetrotting science historian. Superheavy, Racing Green, weird chemistry oddballs. he/him 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Rep: @watsonlittle
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1 month ago |
chemistryworld.com | Kit Chapman
A Spanish scientist is making a bid to bring the periodic table to life as a Lego playset, in a proposal submitted on the company’s website. Source: © Enrique Barrajon While chemistry’s talisman has been represented in brick form before, Enrique Barrajon, a former oncologist in Alicante, Spain, noticed Lego didn’t have an official version, and set about building his own.
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1 month ago |
edu.rsc.org | Kit Chapman
The chemistry of fizzy drinks and the perfect pour Source: © S Toey/Shutterstock As summer rolls around, there’s nothing better than sitting out in the garden and sipping a nice, cool drink of cola or lemonade. But have you noticed that some drinks are fizzier than others? Or ever wondered why drinks don’t appear fizzy in a bottle, and only start to foam once you open them? The answers, of course, are to do with chemistry.
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1 month ago |
nationalgeographic.com | Kit Chapman
In the early hours of September 28, 2023, an act of violence and vandalism shocked the U.K.The next day, news of the attack dominated social media and mainstream news coverage, leading to outpourings of grief, fury at its senselessness, and pilgrimages to the remote stretch of countryside where the crime took place. This wasn’t a human tragedy.
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1 month ago |
chemistryworld.com | Kit Chapman
The first superatoms made using actinides have been created, continuing to upend our understanding of how f-block elements form bonds and adding a new dimension to one of the strangest chemical phenomena. Source: © John A Seed et al 2025 Superatoms are unusual structures first discovered 40 years ago, where clusters of atoms exhibit the properties of elemental atoms due to quantum confinement effects.
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1 month ago |
chemistryworld.com | Kit Chapman
The final piece of the jigsaw puzzle of how actinides bond with ligands through phi bonds has been identified, with its control via oxidation states paving the way for advances in f-block catalysis and quantum computing. Source: © Los Alamos National Lab The actinide series includes the heaviest elements that occur naturally on Earth, and how they bond with ligands is essential to understand, both in terms of fundamental chemistry and in solving problems in the nuclear industry.
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