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Welcome to Marlborough Chemists

This Blog is intended for students that are learning AS and A2 Chemistry at Marlborough School. Information will be posted on this blog to help you with your learning, including syllabus and learning objectives, home learning tasks, suggested reading materials and useful links to secondary sites. Please send me an email to register on the site and then you will be able to add discussion posts. Why not use this site as a way of enhancing your learning with me and your classmates. Have fun. Hope it helps. Mr Eve

Friday 26 October 2007

Complex Ions (Year 13)


Why are these ions so complex? What have they got to do with transition elements? What are transition elements anyway?

All these questions and more will be answered this week as we explore the colourful world of the transition elements.

Friday 5 October 2007

Born Haber Cycles


These handsome gentlemen adapted Hess's Law to produce a way of calculating the lattice enthalpies. We need to know how it is done. So find out more about them at the following sites;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born-Haber_cycle

http://www.chembook.co.uk/chap7.htm#born-haber

Have fun, Mr Eve

Wednesday 3 October 2007

Formation of Ions






A selection of Chocolate ionic bonds from today's lesson.

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