In the English language, the names of 88 of the 118 chemical elements end in ium or um. (one for each piano key!) The word-ending is derived from Latin and it denotes a metallic substance. It's compatible with the fact that 80% of the Earth's building blocks and synthesized elements are metals. The German and... Continue Reading →
I've long been annoyed by complaints about chemophobia and by those on war path to combatting it. But I stumbled upon some fresh air when I read a Scientific American guest blog by Chiara Ceci, who at the time of writing worked for the Royal Society of Chemistry. “We found that people’s views on chemicals... Continue Reading →
I came across a clever application of the quadratic formula on Youtube. Tom Rocks, an Oxford mathematician and the video's creator, uses the dimensions of a soccer net ("football net" anywhere in the world outside of US and Canada) and the maximum diving range of a goalkeeper in all directions, to obtain the radius of... Continue Reading →
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