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Chemistry Made Simple — 102 episodes

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Group 2 Elements and Their Compounds - The Reaction and Trends You Need to Know

2

How to Do a Titration - From Lab to Calculation

3

Avoid Chemistry Calculation Chaos - Know the Correct Units and How to Convert Them

4

Master the Acid Dissociation Constant Ka, and Use it to Calculate pH of Weak Acids

5

Master the Equilibrium Constant Kc

6

What is a Reversible Reaction and an Equilibrium

7

What Exactly are Acids, pH, Strong & Weak Acids

8

Master the Ideal Gas Equation in Chemistry

9

An Important Update

10

How to Do Calculations in Chemistry Using the Mole

11

How My ADHD Helps Me to Help You Learn Chemistry

12

How to Balance Equations, and Why It Is So Important

13

Never Ignore a Mole - What is a Mole and Why it is so Important

14

What You Need to Know about Isotopes at A-Level

15

How to Write and Understnd Electron Configuration

16

What is an atomic orbital, and what are the "rules" about orbitals?

17

Quantum Mechanics - Two analogies to help you understand QM and quantum numbers.

18

How Quantum Mechanics makes the atom 3 dimensional, effects the shape of molecules, and dictates the periodic table's configuration

19

Physical, Organic, or Inorganic? How to navigate these chemistry topic groups.

20

Just how DIFFICULT is it to study advanced high school Chemistry? (With top tips from minute 10)

21

What Changes With the Atomic Model When We Introduce Basic Quantum Mechanics?

22

Experiment Using a Polarimeter to Measure Optical Activity - Including a Novel Analogy

23

What are Optical Isomerism, Chirality, Enantiomers and Plane-Polarized Light

24

How to Use and Understand 'Curly Arrows' in Reaction Mechanisms

25

What are Reaction Mechanisms, Electrophiles and Nucleophiles

26

Determining the Rate Equation for a Chemical Reaction

27

What is the Rate Constant, and How to Use it.

28

What is the rate of reaction, and how can you find it experimentally?

29

How To Predict Whether a Reaction Can Proceed, and at what Temperature - Gibbs Free Energy Change

30

What is Entropy in Chemistry?

31

Why I started This Podcast

32

How to Create and Use a Born-Haber Cycle

33

What Are Mean Bond Enthalpies?

34

Standard Enthalpy of Solution ΔHsol

35

Standard Enthalpy of Hydration ΔHhyd

36

Lattice Enthalpy of Formation ΔHL

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Electron Affinity ΔHea

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Ionization Energy ΔHie

39

Standard Enthalpy of Atomization ΔHat

40

Standard Enthalpy of Combustion ΔHc

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Standard Enthalpy of Formation ΔHf

42

What is a Catalyst in Chemistry?

43

How to Compare Maxwell-Boltzmann Distributions at Different Temperatures

44

What is Collision Theory and How Does it Affect the Rate of Chemical Reactions?

45

What is Mean Bond Enthalpy and How Do I Use It?

46

How to use Enthalpy of Formation and Enthalpy of Combustion to Calculate Enthalpy of Reaction - Hess's Law

47

How to Calculate Enthalpy Changes for Combustion and Neutralisation

48

What is Enthalpy and Enthalpy Change?

49

What is Thermochemistry and Chemical Energetics? An Introduction to Thermochemistry

50

Using Mass Spectroscopy to Catch Cheating Athletes

51

How to Use the Data Sheet with Infra Red Spectra

52

Simple Test Tube Reactions to Identify Organic Compond

53

The Reactions of Alcohols and How to Get What You Want from Alcohols.

54

What are Alcohols and What are Their Key Features? Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Alcohols.

55

Elimination vs Nucleophilic Substitution in Halogenoalkanes

56

Nucleophiles and Nucleophilic Substitution of Halogenoalkanes

57

What are Halogenoalkanes (and Haloalkanes)? What are Their Properties and Reactivity?

58

Addition Polymers - How Polyethene is Made

59

What is Electrophilic Addition? | Reactions of Alkenes

60

Alkene Functional Group and General Formula - Alkenes vs Alkanes

61

How the Free Radical Mechanism forms Halogenoalkanes from Alkanes

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How to Know if Combustion is Complete or Incomplete - Combustion of Alkanes

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What are the Nature, Formula and Properties of Alkanes?

64

What are Isomers and What is Isomerism?

65

What are Functional Groups and Homologous Series?

66

How to Show the Structure of Organic Molecules

67

What is Organic Chemistry, and What is So Special About Carbon?

68

What are van der Waals, Dipole-Dipole and Hydrogen Bonding?

69

What is Electronegativity and How Does it Make Bonds Polar

70

What is Metallic Bonding and How Does it Work?

71

What is Covalent Bonding and How Does it Work?

72

What is Ionic Bonding and How Does it Work?

73

How and Why Chemical Bonds are Formed - Chemical Bonding I

74

How to do the Analytical Chemistry Question in Your Exam

75

What Happens to Ionization Energy Across a Period - Periodicity IV

76

Two Must-Know Trends in Melting and Boiling Points - Periodicity III

77

Trends in Atomic Radii across the periodic table - Periodicity II

78

Trends Across the Periodic Table - Periodicity I

79

Atom Economy vs Yield

80

How to Work Out Half Equations - Redox III

81

How to Assign Oxidation States or Numbers - Redox II

82

Introduction to Oxidation, Reduction and Redox Reactions - Redox I

83

How to Name Organic Compounds - Nomenclature II

84

How to Name Inorganic Compounds - Nomenclature I

85

How to Balance Chemical Equations (Full, ionic and half equations)

86

How to Use the Ideal Gas Equation

87

How to Use Moles for Gases - Molar Volume

88

Why the Mole is the Most Important College Chemistry Concept

89

Is A-Level Chemistry Really THAT difficult?

90

What Is Titration and How Does it Work?

91

Everything About Acidic Buffers : Composition, How They Work, and How To Do Calculations

92

Bonus Episode: How to Recognise a Weak Acid?

93

Using the Acid Dissociation Constant Ka with Weak Acids

94

Strong Acids, Weak Acids and pH

95

How To Use the Equilibrium Constant Kc

96

What are Equilibria and Reversible Reactions?

97

What are Isotopes?

98

How Mass Spectrometers Work

99

Atomic Orbitals and the True Nature of Electrons

100

What is Quantum Mechanics?

101

How the Atomic Model Changes at A-Level

102

What is the Chemistry Made Simple Podcast?