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Chemistry Made Simple — 103 episodes
Oxidation States: The Scorecard You Need For Every Redox Reaction and Half-Equation.
Group 2 Elements and Their Compounds - The Reaction and Trends You Need to Know
How to Do a Titration - From Lab to Calculation
Avoid Chemistry Calculation Chaos - Know the Correct Units and How to Convert Them
Master the Acid Dissociation Constant Ka, and Use it to Calculate pH of Weak Acids
Master the Equilibrium Constant Kc
What is a Reversible Reaction and an Equilibrium
What Exactly are Acids, pH, Strong & Weak Acids
Master the Ideal Gas Equation in Chemistry
An Important Update
How to Do Calculations in Chemistry Using the Mole
How My ADHD Helps Me to Help You Learn Chemistry
How to Balance Equations, and Why It Is So Important
Never Ignore a Mole - What is a Mole and Why it is so Important
What You Need to Know about Isotopes at A-Level
How to Write and Understand Electron Configuration
What is an atomic orbital, and what are the "rules" about orbitals?
Quantum Mechanics - Two analogies to help you understand QM and quantum numbers.
How Quantum Mechanics makes the atom 3 dimensional, effects the shape of molecules, and dictates the periodic table's configuration
Physical, Organic, or Inorganic? How to navigate these chemistry topic groups.
Just how DIFFICULT is it to study advanced high school Chemistry? (With top tips from minute 10)
What Changes With the Atomic Model When We Introduce Basic Quantum Mechanics?
Experiment Using a Polarimeter to Measure Optical Activity - Including a Novel Analogy
What are Optical Isomerism, Chirality, Enantiomers and Plane-Polarized Light
How to Use and Understand 'Curly Arrows' in Reaction Mechanisms
What are Reaction Mechanisms, Electrophiles and Nucleophiles
Determining the Rate Equation for a Chemical Reaction
What is the Rate Constant, and How to Use it.
What is the rate of reaction, and how can you find it experimentally?
How To Predict Whether a Reaction Can Proceed, and at what Temperature - Gibbs Free Energy Change
What is Entropy in Chemistry?
Why I started This Podcast
How to Create and Use a Born-Haber Cycle
What Are Mean Bond Enthalpies?
Standard Enthalpy of Solution ΔHsol
Standard Enthalpy of Hydration ΔHhyd
Lattice Enthalpy of Formation ΔHL
Electron Affinity ΔHea
Ionization Energy ΔHie
Standard Enthalpy of Atomization ΔHat
Standard Enthalpy of Combustion ΔHc
Standard Enthalpy of Formation ΔHf
What is a Catalyst in Chemistry?
How to Compare Maxwell-Boltzmann Distributions at Different Temperatures
What is Collision Theory and How Does it Affect the Rate of Chemical Reactions?
What is Mean Bond Enthalpy and How Do I Use It?
How to use Enthalpy of Formation and Enthalpy of Combustion to Calculate Enthalpy of Reaction - Hess's Law
How to Calculate Enthalpy Changes for Combustion and Neutralisation
What is Enthalpy and Enthalpy Change?
What is Thermochemistry and Chemical Energetics? An Introduction to Thermochemistry
Using Mass Spectroscopy to Catch Cheating Athletes
How to Use the Data Sheet with Infra Red Spectra
Simple Test Tube Reactions to Identify Organic Compond
The Reactions of Alcohols and How to Get What You Want from Alcohols.
What are Alcohols and What are Their Key Features? Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Alcohols.
Elimination vs Nucleophilic Substitution in Halogenoalkanes
Nucleophiles and Nucleophilic Substitution of Halogenoalkanes
What are Halogenoalkanes (and Haloalkanes)? What are Their Properties and Reactivity?
Addition Polymers - How Polyethene is Made
What is Electrophilic Addition? | Reactions of Alkenes
Alkene Functional Group and General Formula - Alkenes vs Alkanes
How the Free Radical Mechanism forms Halogenoalkanes from Alkanes
How to Know if Combustion is Complete or Incomplete - Combustion of Alkanes
What are the Nature, Formula and Properties of Alkanes?
What are Isomers and What is Isomerism?
What are Functional Groups and Homologous Series?
How to Show the Structure of Organic Molecules
What is Organic Chemistry, and What is So Special About Carbon?
What are van der Waals, Dipole-Dipole and Hydrogen Bonding?
What is Electronegativity and How Does it Make Bonds Polar
What is Metallic Bonding and How Does it Work?
What is Covalent Bonding and How Does it Work?
What is Ionic Bonding and How Does it Work?
How and Why Chemical Bonds are Formed - Chemical Bonding I
How to do the Analytical Chemistry Question in Your Exam
What Happens to Ionization Energy Across a Period - Periodicity IV
Two Must-Know Trends in Melting and Boiling Points - Periodicity III
Trends in Atomic Radii across the periodic table - Periodicity II
Trends Across the Periodic Table - Periodicity I
Atom Economy vs Yield
How to Work Out Half Equations - Redox III
How to Assign Oxidation States or Numbers - Redox II
Introduction to Oxidation, Reduction and Redox Reactions - Redox I
How to Name Organic Compounds - Nomenclature II
How to Name Inorganic Compounds - Nomenclature I
How to Balance Chemical Equations (Full, ionic and half equations)
How to Use the Ideal Gas Equation
How to Use Moles for Gases - Molar Volume
Why the Mole is the Most Important College Chemistry Concept
Is A-Level Chemistry Really THAT difficult?
What Is Titration and How Does it Work?
Everything About Acidic Buffers : Composition, How They Work, and How To Do Calculations
Bonus Episode: How to Recognise a Weak Acid?
Using the Acid Dissociation Constant Ka with Weak Acids
Strong Acids, Weak Acids and pH
How To Use the Equilibrium Constant Kc
What are Equilibria and Reversible Reactions?
What are Isotopes?
How Mass Spectrometers Work
Atomic Orbitals and the True Nature of Electrons
What is Quantum Mechanics?
How the Atomic Model Changes at A-Level
What is the Chemistry Made Simple Podcast?