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What Changes With the Atomic Model When We Introduce Basic Quantum Mechanics?
Jan 16, 2024 – 06:17
Experiment Using a Polarimeter to Measure Optical Activity - Including a Novel Analogy
Jan 2, 2024 – 05:59
What are Optical Isomerism, Chirality, Enantiomers and Plane-Polarized Light
Dec 29, 2023 – 06:58
How to Use and Understand 'Curly Arrows' in Reaction Mechanisms
Nov 21, 2023 – 05:11
What are Reaction Mechanisms, Electrophiles and Nucleophiles
Nov 14, 2023 – 04:46
Determining the Rate Equation for a Chemical Reaction
Nov 8, 2023 – 09:03
What is the Rate Constant, and How to Use it.
Oct 24, 2023 – 07:37
What is the rate of reaction, and how can you find it experimentally?
Oct 17, 2023 – 05:45
How To Predict Whether a Reaction Can Proceed, and at what Temperature - Gibbs Free Energy Change
Oct 11, 2023 – 09:10
What is Entropy in Chemistry?
Sep 26, 2023 – 05:40
Why I started This Podcast
Sep 20, 2023 – 04:58
How to Create and Use a Born-Haber Cycle
Jun 13, 2023 – 13:54
What Are Mean Bond Enthalpies?
Jun 6, 2023 – 02:28
Standard Enthalpy of Solution ΔHsol
Jun 1, 2023 – 02:18
Standard Enthalpy of Hydration ΔHhyd
May 30, 2023 – 02:17
Lattice Enthalpy of Formation ΔHL
May 25, 2023 – 03:43
Electron Affinity ΔHea
May 23, 2023 – 02:37
Ionization Energy ΔHie
May 18, 2023 – 03:57
Standard Enthalpy of Atomization ΔHat
May 16, 2023 – 03:02
Standard Enthalpy of Combustion ΔHc
May 11, 2023 – 02:51
Standard Enthalpy of Formation ΔHf
May 9, 2023 – 04:23
What is a Catalyst in Chemistry?
May 2, 2023 – 06:12
How to Compare Maxwell-Boltzmann Distributions at Different Temperatures
Apr 25, 2023 – 07:04
What is Collision Theory and How Does it Affect the Rate of Chemical Reactions?
Apr 18, 2023 – 06:15
What is Mean Bond Enthalpy and How Do I Use It?
Apr 11, 2023 – 06:19
How to use Enthalpy of Formation and Enthalpy of Combustion to Calculate Enthalpy of Reaction - Hess's Law
Mar 28, 2023 – 07:27
How to Calculate Enthalpy Changes for Combustion and Neutralisation
Mar 23, 2023 – 11:56
What is Enthalpy and Enthalpy Change?
Mar 14, 2023 – 04:03
What is Thermochemistry and Chemical Energetics? An Introduction to Thermochemistry
Mar 7, 2023 – 06:50
Using Mass Spectroscopy to Catch Cheating Athletes
Feb 28, 2023 – 07:45
How to Use the Data Sheet with Infra Red Spectra
Feb 21, 2023 – 08:26
Simple Test Tube Reactions to Identify Organic Compond
Feb 7, 2023 – 07:59
The Reactions of Alcohols and How to Get What You Want from Alcohols.
Jan 31, 2023 – 08:14
What are Alcohols and What are Their Key Features? Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Alcohols.
Jan 24, 2023 – 08:57
Elimination vs Nucleophilic Substitution in Halogenoalkanes
Jan 17, 2023 – 05:49
Nucleophiles and Nucleophilic Substitution of Halogenoalkanes
Jan 10, 2023 – 08:43
What are Halogenoalkanes (and Haloalkanes)? What are Their Properties and Reactivity?
Jan 3, 2023 – 07:23
Addition Polymers - How Polyethene is Made
Dec 6, 2022 – 07:53
What is Electrophilic Addition? | Reactions of Alkenes
Nov 23, 2022 – 11:50
Alkene Functional Group and General Formula - Alkenes vs Alkanes
Nov 8, 2022 – 05:47
How the Free Radical Mechanism forms Halogenoalkanes from Alkanes
Nov 1, 2022 – 12:38
How to Know if Combustion is Complete or Incomplete - Combustion of Alkanes
Oct 25, 2022 – 07:32
What are the Nature, Formula and Properties of Alkanes?
Oct 18, 2022 – 06:54
What are Isomers and What is Isomerism?
Oct 11, 2022 – 11:31
What are Functional Groups and Homologous Series?
Oct 7, 2022 – 07:41
How to Show the Structure of Organic Molecules
Sep 27, 2022 – 08:25
What is Organic Chemistry, and What is So Special About Carbon?
Sep 15, 2022 – 09:25
What are van der Waals, Dipole-Dipole and Hydrogen Bonding?
Aug 2, 2022 – 13:53
What is Electronegativity and How Does it Make Bonds Polar
Jul 19, 2022 – 11:32
What is Metallic Bonding and How Does it Work?
Jul 12, 2022 – 06:14