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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Group 2 Elements and Their Compounds - The Reaction and Trends You Need to Know
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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How to Do a Titration - From Lab to Calculation
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Avoid Chemistry Calculation Chaos - Know the Correct Units and How to Convert Them
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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Master the Acid Dissociation Constant Ka, and Use it to Calculate pH of Weak Acids
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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Master the Equilibrium Constant Kc
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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What is a Reversible Reaction and an Equilibrium
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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What Exactly are Acids, pH, Strong & Weak Acids
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Master the Ideal Gas Equation in Chemistry
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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An Important Update
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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How to Do Calculations in Chemistry Using the Mole
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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How My ADHD Helps Me to Help You Learn Chemistry
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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How to Balance Equations, and Why It Is So Important
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Never Ignore a Mole - What is a Mole and Why it is so Important
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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What You Need to Know about Isotopes at A-Level
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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How to Write and Understnd Electron Configuration
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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What is an atomic orbital, and what are the "rules" about orbitals?
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Quantum Mechanics - Two analogies to help you understand QM and quantum numbers.
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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How Quantum Mechanics makes the atom 3 dimensional, effects the shape of molecules, and dictates the periodic table's configuration
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Physical, Organic, or Inorganic? How to navigate these chemistry topic groups.
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Just how DIFFICULT is it to study advanced high school Chemistry? (With top tips from minute 10)
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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What Changes With the Atomic Model When We Introduce Basic Quantum Mechanics?
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Experiment Using a Polarimeter to Measure Optical Activity - Including a Novel Analogy
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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What are Optical Isomerism, Chirality, Enantiomers and Plane-Polarized Light
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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How to Use and Understand 'Curly Arrows' in Reaction Mechanisms
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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What are Reaction Mechanisms, Electrophiles and Nucleophiles
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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Determining the Rate Equation for a Chemical Reaction
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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What is the Rate Constant, and How to Use it.
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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What is the rate of reaction, and how can you find it experimentally?
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Oct 16, 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 10, 2023 |
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What is Entropy in Chemistry?
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Why I started This Podcast
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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How to Create and Use a Born-Haber Cycle
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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What Are Mean Bond Enthalpies?
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Standard Enthalpy of Solution ΔHsol
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May 31, 2023 |
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Standard Enthalpy of Hydration ΔHhyd
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May 29, 2023 |
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Lattice Enthalpy of Formation ΔHL
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May 24, 2023 |
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Electron Affinity ΔHea
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May 22, 2023 |
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Ionization Energy ΔHie
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May 17, 2023 |
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Standard Enthalpy of Atomization ΔHat
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May 15, 2023 |
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Standard Enthalpy of Combustion ΔHc
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May 10, 2023 |
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Standard Enthalpy of Formation ΔHf
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May 08, 2023 |
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What is a Catalyst in Chemistry?
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May 01, 2023 |
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How to Compare Maxwell-Boltzmann Distributions at Different Temperatures
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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What is Collision Theory and How Does it Affect the Rate of Chemical Reactions?
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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What is Mean Bond Enthalpy and How Do I Use It?
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Apr 10, 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 27, 2023 |
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How to Calculate Enthalpy Changes for Combustion and Neutralisation
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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What is Enthalpy and Enthalpy Change?
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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What is Thermochemistry and Chemical Energetics? An Introduction to Thermochemistry
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Using Mass Spectroscopy to Catch Cheating Athletes
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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How to Use the Data Sheet with Infra Red Spectra
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Simple Test Tube Reactions to Identify Organic Compond
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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The Reactions of Alcohols and How to Get What You Want from Alcohols.
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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What are Alcohols and What are Their Key Features? Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Alcohols.
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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Elimination vs Nucleophilic Substitution in Halogenoalkanes
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Nucleophiles and Nucleophilic Substitution of Halogenoalkanes
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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What are Halogenoalkanes (and Haloalkanes)? What are Their Properties and Reactivity?
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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Addition Polymers - How Polyethene is Made
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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What is Electrophilic Addition? | Reactions of Alkenes
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Alkene Functional Group and General Formula - Alkenes vs Alkanes
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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How the Free Radical Mechanism forms Halogenoalkanes from Alkanes
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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How to Know if Combustion is Complete or Incomplete - Combustion of Alkanes
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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What are the Nature, Formula and Properties of Alkanes?
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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What are Isomers and What is Isomerism?
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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What are Functional Groups and Homologous Series?
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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How to Show the Structure of Organic Molecules
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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What is Organic Chemistry, and What is So Special About Carbon?
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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What are van der Waals, Dipole-Dipole and Hydrogen Bonding?
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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What is Electronegativity and How Does it Make Bonds Polar
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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What is Metallic Bonding and How Does it Work?
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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What is Covalent Bonding and How Does it Work?
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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What is Ionic Bonding and How Does it Work?
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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How and Why Chemical Bonds are Formed - Chemical Bonding I
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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How to do the Analytical Chemistry Question in Your Exam
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May 30, 2022 |
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What Happens to Ionization Energy Across a Period - Periodicity IV
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May 23, 2022 |
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Two Must-Know Trends in Melting and Boiling Points - Periodicity III
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May 16, 2022 |
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Trends in Atomic Radii across the periodic table - Periodicity II
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May 09, 2022 |
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Trends Across the Periodic Table - Periodicity I
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May 04, 2022 |
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Atom Economy vs Yield
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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How to Work Out Half Equations - Redox III
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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How to Assign Oxidation States or Numbers - Redox II
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Introduction to Oxidation, Reduction and Redox Reactions - Redox I
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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How to Name Organic Compounds - Nomenclature II
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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How to Name Inorganic Compounds - Nomenclature I
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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How to Balance Chemical Equations (Full, ionic and half equations)
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Nov 22, 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 |