Chemistry Made Simple
By Matthew Macariou
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Helping you understand chemistry topics from A-Level and Advanced Higher.
Get more guidance, deeper resources and a helpful community at ChemistryMadeSimple.net
If you want to demystify chemistry, yearn for a simpler explanation and want to hear all the tips that will help you at exam time you're at the right place.
I'm a chemistry tutor who is used to explaining chemistry in simpler terms, and I love to use an analogy to help with the understanding.
Each episode tackles a topic, explaining it as simply as possible - well it is chemistry! The end-of-episode summary will make sure you have useful takeaways to help you on your way.
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What Changes With the Atomic Model When We Introduce Basic Quantum Mechanics?
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Experiment Using a Polarimeter to Measure Optical Activity - Including a Novel Analogy
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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What are Optical Isomerism, Chirality, Enantiomers and Plane-Polarized Light
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Dec 29, 2023 |
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How to Use and Understand 'Curly Arrows' in Reaction Mechanisms
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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What are Reaction Mechanisms, Electrophiles and Nucleophiles
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Determining the Rate Equation for a Chemical Reaction
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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What is the Rate Constant, and How to Use it.
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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What is the rate of reaction, and how can you find it experimentally?
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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How To Predict Whether a Reaction Can Proceed, and at what Temperature - Gibbs Free Energy Change
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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What is Entropy in Chemistry?
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Why I started This Podcast
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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How to Create and Use a Born-Haber Cycle
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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What Are Mean Bond Enthalpies?
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Standard Enthalpy of Solution ΔHsol
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Standard Enthalpy of Hydration ΔHhyd
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May 30, 2023 |
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Lattice Enthalpy of Formation ΔHL
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May 25, 2023 |
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Electron Affinity ΔHea
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May 23, 2023 |
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Ionization Energy ΔHie
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May 18, 2023 |
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Standard Enthalpy of Atomization ΔHat
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May 16, 2023 |
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Standard Enthalpy of Combustion ΔHc
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May 11, 2023 |
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Standard Enthalpy of Formation ΔHf
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May 09, 2023 |
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What is a Catalyst in Chemistry?
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May 02, 2023 |
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How to Compare Maxwell-Boltzmann Distributions at Different Temperatures
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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What is Collision Theory and How Does it Affect the Rate of Chemical Reactions?
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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What is Mean Bond Enthalpy and How Do I Use It?
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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How to use Enthalpy of Formation and Enthalpy of Combustion to Calculate Enthalpy of Reaction - Hess's Law
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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How to Calculate Enthalpy Changes for Combustion and Neutralisation
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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What is Enthalpy and Enthalpy Change?
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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What is Thermochemistry and Chemical Energetics? An Introduction to Thermochemistry
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Using Mass Spectroscopy to Catch Cheating Athletes
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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How to Use the Data Sheet with Infra Red Spectra
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Simple Test Tube Reactions to Identify Organic Compond
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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The Reactions of Alcohols and How to Get What You Want from Alcohols.
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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What are Alcohols and What are Their Key Features? Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Alcohols.
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Elimination vs Nucleophilic Substitution in Halogenoalkanes
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Nucleophiles and Nucleophilic Substitution of Halogenoalkanes
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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What are Halogenoalkanes (and Haloalkanes)? What are Their Properties and Reactivity?
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Addition Polymers - How Polyethene is Made
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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What is Electrophilic Addition? | Reactions of Alkenes
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Alkene Functional Group and General Formula - Alkenes vs Alkanes
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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How the Free Radical Mechanism forms Halogenoalkanes from Alkanes
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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How to Know if Combustion is Complete or Incomplete - Combustion of Alkanes
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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What are the Nature, Formula and Properties of Alkanes?
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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What are Isomers and What is Isomerism?
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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What are Functional Groups and Homologous Series?
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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How to Show the Structure of Organic Molecules
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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What is Organic Chemistry, and What is So Special About Carbon?
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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What are van der Waals, Dipole-Dipole and Hydrogen Bonding?
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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What is Electronegativity and How Does it Make Bonds Polar
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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What is Metallic Bonding and How Does it Work?
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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What is Covalent Bonding and How Does it Work?
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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What is Ionic Bonding and How Does it Work?
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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How and Why Chemical Bonds are Formed - Chemical Bonding I
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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How to do the Analytical Chemistry Question in Your Exam
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May 31, 2022 |
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What Happens to Ionization Energy Across a Period - Periodicity IV
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May 24, 2022 |
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Two Must-Know Trends in Melting and Boiling Points - Periodicity III
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May 17, 2022 |
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Trends in Atomic Radii across the periodic table - Periodicity II
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May 10, 2022 |
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Trends Across the Periodic Table - Periodicity I
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May 05, 2022 |
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Atom Economy vs Yield
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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How to Work Out Half Equations - Redox III
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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How to Assign Oxidation States or Numbers - Redox II
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Introduction to Oxidation, Reduction and Redox Reactions - Redox I
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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How to Name Organic Compounds - Nomenclature II
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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How to Name Inorganic Compounds - Nomenclature I
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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How to Balance Chemical Equations (Full, ionic and half equations)
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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How to Use the Ideal Gas Equation
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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How to Use Moles for Gases - Molar Volume
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Why the Mole is the Most Important College Chemistry Concept
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Is A-Level Chemistry Really THAT difficult?
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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What Is Titration and How Does it Work?
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Everything About Acidic Buffers : Composition, How They Work, and How To Do Calculations
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May 11, 2021 |
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Bonus Episode: How to Recognise a Weak Acid?
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May 06, 2021 |
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Using the Acid Dissociation Constant Ka with Weak Acids
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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Strong Acids, Weak Acids and pH
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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How To Use the Equilibrium Constant Kc
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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What are Equilibria and Reversible Reactions?
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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What are Isotopes?
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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How Mass Spectrometers Work
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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Atomic Orbitals and the True Nature of Electrons
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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What is Quantum Mechanics?
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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How the Atomic Model Changes at A-Level
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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What is the Chemistry Made Simple Podcast?
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Jan 19, 2021 |