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This is an Index of the Blog entries since January of 2014.  There is a list of the entries by month on the main Blog page listed to the right in blue.  This record will be updated with each Blog entry.

June 2019

06/28/2019    Chernobyl Animal Facts

06/21/2019     Rare Earth Elements

06/14/2019     Plastic Waste Pollution

06/07/2019     World's Lightest Solid



May 2019     


05/31/2019     Definition of the Kilogram Just Changed

05/24/2019     Earliest Molecule in the Universe


05/17/2019     Britain Goes One Week Without Burning Coal

05/10/2019     Germany Shuts Down Coal Plants

05/03/2019     Methods to Increase Ammonia Production


April 2019

04/26/2019    Manure Could Heat your Home

04/19/2019    Sunlight Converted to Liquid Fuel

04/12/2019    The Hidden Air Pollution in our Homes

04/05/2019    40th Anniversary of 3-Mile Island Accident


March 2019

03/29/2019    Petrochemical Fire near Houston, TX

03/22/2019    Cost of the American Lawn

03/15/2019    Increase in the Cost of Recycling

03/08/2019    Voyager-2

03/01/2019    Radiation in Grand Canyon Museum


February 2019

02/22/2019   Nanosize Technology

02/15/2019   No Blog Post this Week

02/08/2019   Flint, Michigan after Water Crisis

02/01/2019    Warmer Oceans Reduce Ocean Kelp Forests



January 2019

01/25/2019     World's Oldest Periodic Table

01/18/2019     The Era of Easy Recycling May be at an End

01/11/2019     Graphene Water Filter for Ocean Water

01/04/2019     China is A Renewable Energy Champion


December 2018

12/21/18        Ocean Power Plant Generates Energy from Waves

12/14/18         London Killer Smog in 1952

12/07/18         Global Climate Change and Health Report


November 2018

11/30/2018     Pacific Garbage Patch

11/23/2018     Happy Thanksgiving 2018

11/16/2018     Dangers of Methylene Chloride Paint Stripper

11/09/2018     Plastic Pollution Coalition


October 2018

10/26/2018    China Going Solar

10/19/2018    The Ocean Cleanup Launch

10/12/2018    New High Temperatures Predicted in IPCC Report

10/05/2018    Blog Delay this Week

September 2018

09/27/2018     Mole Redefinition

09/20/2018    Gas Explosion in Boston

09/14/2018     High-Tech Electronics Made from Autumn Leaves


09/07/2018      Airplane Air Concerns


August 2018

08/31/2018   The 2018-2019 School Year

08/24/2018   Bismuth Catalyst to Treat Excess Carbon Dioxide

08/17/2018   Chemistry Using Virtual Reality

08/10/2018   Oil Spill Sponge

08/03/2018   Concrete That Traps CO2 Emissions Forever


July 2018

07/27/2018   Invention for Water Conservation

07/20/2018   Gas Explosion in Wisconsin

07/13/2018   Explosion at Fireworks Market in Mexico

07/06/2018   Happy July 4th, 2018 !


June 2018

06/29/2018    Lead Paint in California Houses

06/22/2018    Video: What Lies Upstream (2017)

06/15/2018    Swimming the Pacific Ocean

06/08/2018    Lone Water Molecules Turn Out to Influence
                          Supramolecular Chemistry

06/01/2018    Film on Ocean Water Interrupts CO2 Absorption




May 2018

05/25/2018   Students Invent Filter for Water Purification

05/18/2018   Volcanic Eruption in Hawaii and Toxic Gas


05/11/2018    Water-Based Battery Stores Solar and Wind Energy

05/04/2018    White Roads in Los Angeles, CA


April 2018

04/27/2018     Current State of Nuclear Fusion Research

04/20/2018     What is a Superfund Site?

04/13/2018     Once We Can Capture CO2 Emissions...

04/06/2018      Kentucky Water Crisis


March 2018

03/30/2018       China Vertical Forest Update

03/23/2018       Current Event: Chemical Plant Explosion in TX

03/16/2018       Mining Lithium

03/09/2018       12-Year Old Invents Lead Detector

03/02/2018       Video: Uranium - Twisting the Dragon's Tail


February 2018

02/23/2018        Chemists Develop a New Method to Break Down
                              Pollutants in Water

02/16/2018        Mercury Under Melting Permafrost

02/09/2018        Current Event -- South Africa Drought Update

02/02/2018        Current Event -- South Africa Drought  


January 2018

01/26/2018         Current Event -- Oil Drill Site Explosion

01/19/2018          Water-Based, Energy-Saving Air Conditioner

01/12/2018          Grading Rubrics for Lab Reports

01/05/2018          Naming Elements


December 2017

​12/22/2017          The Radium Girls

12/15/2017          Edible Coffee Cup

​12/08/2017          Video: Oceans -- The Mystery of the Missing Plastic

12/01/2017          Ocean Wave Power


November 2017

11/24/2017          Happy Thanksgiving 2017

11/17/2017          NYC Green Roofs

11/10/2017          Video -- From Flint: Voices of a Poisoned City

11/03/2017          Lead Levels in Philadephia, PA Soil


October 2017

10/27/2017          A Hydrogen Powered Vehicle

10/20/2017         Toxic Water in Puerto Rico

10/13/2017         Overview of Global Climate Change

10/06/2017         Feeding Seaweed to Cows


September 2017

09/29/2017          Sri Lanka Bans Plastic Bags
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09/22/2017          Los Angeles Lead Clean-Up


​09/15/2017          Chemical Plants Affected by Hurricane Harvey
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09/08/2017          Game Over for the Original Kilogram

09/01/2017          Radon in Houses

August 2017

08/25/2017          Google Mapping Air Pollution

08/18/2017          Biodegradable Bags Made w/ Cassava

08/11/2017          Database About U.S. Public Water Systems

​08/04/2017          Video: Leonardo -- The Man Who Saved Science


July 2017

​07/28/2017         Current Fukushima Underwater Footage

07/21/2017         Converting Carbon Dioxide to Methane

07/14/2017         Using Redox to Clean Rust

07/07/17             Teflon Water Worries


June 2017

​06/30/2017         Delay in Blog Post
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06/23/2017         Antarctica Melting

06/16/2017         Source of Energy Choices: An Article


06/09/2017         Plastic Roads

​06/02/2017         Swiss Nuclear Power Ban
​

May 2017

​05/26/2017         Radioactive Truffles?
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05/19/2017         Edible Water "Bottle"

​05/12/2017         Plastic-Eating Caterpillars

05/05/2017         Trans Fat Ban


April 2017

​04/28/2017        New Battery Coating
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04/21/2017        Diapers -- So Many Choices
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04/14/2017        Chemists Create Vitamin-Powered Battery

04/07/2017        Electrochemistry Research Articles


​March 2017

03/31/2017        Buckyballs

03/24/2017        Toxic Mercury Levels in Sea Life

​03/17/2017        Nuclear Waste in Batteries

​03/10/2017        Van Der Waals Forces Re-Measured

​03/03/2017        China's Vertical Forests



February 2017

​02/24/2017        Cleaner Cookstoves

02/17/2017        The Ocean Clean-up Project Revisited
​
02/10/2017        High Fukushima Radiation Levels  


02/03/2017        Video: Search for the Super Battery


January 2017

01/27/2017      2016 Warmest Year on Record
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01/20/2017      Contaminated Drinking Water at US Marine Camp

01/13/2017       America's First Offshore Wind Farm

01/06/2017       Pest Control Creates Lethal Gas



December 2016

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12/30/2016      Top 10 Science Stories 2016

​12/23/2016​      Criminal Charges in Flint, Michigan

12/16/2016      Cracks in Antarctic Glacier

12/09/2016      Cool Periodic Table
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​12/02/2016      The Space Poop Challenge

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November 2016
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​11/25/2016      Tsunami Near Fukushima
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11/18/2016     
Chernobyl New Safe Confinement

11/11/2016      Science News for Students
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11/04/2016      Flavored Coffees



October 2016

10/28/2016      Nuclear Power Plant Closure 

​10/21/2016      Indigo Dye

​10/15/2016      Mole Day is Coming!

​10/05/2016      Nobel Prize in Chemistry


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September 2016

​09/30/2016      Videos for the Chemistry Classroom

09/23/2016      Water Pollution in US Schools

​09/16/2016      Video -- Forces of Nature: Shape

09/09/2016      Ozone Hole Beginning to Mend

​09/05/2016     US to Get Rid of Chemical Weapons Stockpile


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August 2016   

08/28/2016     The First Days of School
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08/21/2016    
Solar Cell Converts CO2 to Usable Fuel

08/14/2016     Hydroelectric Cell Phone Chargers

08/07/2016     Debate about Nuclear Power


July 2016

07/31/2016      Cost of Nuclear Shutdown in Germany


​07/24/2016      Order Lab Book -- Now!

​07/16/2016      Video: Ancient Navies

​07/10/2016      Demonstration: Bond Polarity

​07/03/2016      Video: Bill Nye's Global Meltdown (2015)
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June 2016

​06/19/2016      End of Year Reflection II
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06/12/2016      New Elements Named

06/05/2016      Air Pollution in China
​


May 2016

05/29/2016       New Uses for Waste Glass

05/22/2016       MFCs Turn Urine into Electricity

05/15/2016        Video: Life's Rocky Start

05/08/2016        The Chemistry of Baking Soda

​05/01/2016        30th Anniversary of Chernobyl  



April 2016

​04/24/2016         Electronics from Coal

04/17/2016         Metal Foam Armour

04/10/2016         Spring Break 2016

04/03/2016         Permafrost Melting



March 2016

03/26/2016          Nuclear Waste Storage

​03/19/2016          Microplastic Polluting Our Oceans

03/12/2016          Deflategate and The Gas Laws

03/05/2016          Science in "The Martian"



February 2016
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02/28/2016           Video: "Does the Ocean Think?"

02/20/2016           Nuclear Waste and Lake Huron

02/13/2016           Gases in Low Temperatures

​02/06/2016           Carbon Dioxide Conversion to Methanol



​January 2016

01/29/2016           Electronic Waste

01/22/2016           Methane Leak in California

​01/13/2016            Doce River Mine Accident (Brazil)

01/07/2016            Four New Elements
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December 2015

12/28/2015            Lucky Iron Fish

​12/17/2015            Current Event -- Lead Poisoning

12/11/2015            Video: "The Mystery of Matter" (2015)

12/03/2015            Periodic Table Trend Activities



November 2015

11/27/2015            Your School Library II
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11/20/2015            Holiday Class Activities​

11/13/2015            Sewage in Lake Champlain​

11/06/2015            Inventions to Recycle Carbon Dioxide
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October 2015

10/30/2015            Current Event -- Radioactive Waste from WWII

10/22/2015            The Future of Nuclear Fusion​

10/15/2015            Mole Mathematics​

10/08/2015            Current Event - Contaminated Drinking Water​



September 2015

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​09/30/2015             5-Week Progress Reports

09/24/2015             Facts about the element Mercury



09/17/2015             Multiple Versions of Quizzes and Tests


09/10/2015             Recycling


09/03/2015             Method to Slow Evaporation


August 2015

08/27/2015             Outlines for Student Notes

08/20/2015             Thermoelectrics

08/13/2015             Colorado Mine Accident

08/06/2015             Post-Fukushima Restarts


July 2015

07/30/2015             Substance with High Melting Point

07/23/2015             Astatine Discovery

07/15/2015             Abandoned Mines

07/09/2015             Atoms at Absolute Zero

07/02/2015             Hydrogen Production


June 2015

06/25/2015             Ocean Clean-Up

06/18/2015             Summer 2015 Topics

06/11/2015             End of Year Reflection

06/04/2015             Final Exams II


May 2015

05/28/2015             Extra Credit II

05/21/2015             Natural Cleaners

05/14/2015            Fractional Distillation

05/07/2015            Penny Battery


April 2015

04/30/2015           Lab Practical Examination

04/23/2015           Equilibrium Demonstration

04/15/2015           Solubility Curves

04/09/2015               Spring Break

04/01/2015            NOVA video "Hunting the Elements" (2012)


March 2015

03/25/2015            Your School Library

03/19/2015            VSEPR Theory Labs and Resources

03/12/2015            Electron Dot Diagram

03/04/2015            Calorimetry


February 2015

02/25/2015            Lake Ontario Over 80% Frozen

02/18/2015            Nuclear Chemistry -- Part II (Fission, Fusion & Half-Life)

02/11/2015            Introduction to Nuclear Chemistry

02/04/2015            Atomic Structure Revisited


January 2015

01/28/2015             Computer Simulations of Gases

01/21/2015             Gay-Lussac's Law Demonstration

01/14/2015             Charles' Law in Freezing Temperatures

01/07/2015             Atmospheric Pressure -- Current Story

01/04/2015             Midterm Examinations


December 2014

12/29/2014             Percent Error

12/18/2014             Limiting Reagent and Percent Yield

12/10/2014             Stoichiometry

12/04/2014             Current Automobile Airbag Concerns
            


November 2014

11/25/2014             Predicting Products of a Combustion Reaction (5th Rxn Type)

11/23/2014             Predicting Products of a Double Replacement Reaction (4th Rxn
                                    Type)

11/21/2014              Predicting Products of a Single Replacement Reaction (3rd
                                    Rxn Type)

11/17/2014              Predicting Products of a Decomposition Reaction (2nd Rxn
                                    Type)

11/14/2014             Predicting Products of a Synthesis Reaction (1st Rxn Type)

11/07/2014             Molar Volume of a Gas


 
October 2014

10/31/2014              Binary, Molecular Formula Naming / Writing

10/27/2014              Ionic Formula Writing -- Part II

10/23/2014              Delay in Post and Mole Labs in My Book

10/20/2014              Celebrating Mole Day

10/17/2014              Intro to Ionic Formula Writing

10/15/2014              Unit Objectives

10/08/2014              Elements, Compounds, and Mixtures
       
10/03/2014              Heating/Cooling Curves Revisited
 

September  2014

09/25/2014                  Blog Topic List

09/22/2014                  Next Topic?

09/19/2014                  Element Symbols & Intro to Chemical Language

09/12/2014                  Density

09/05/2014                  Quizzes and Tests (General Information & Test

                                         Generation Programs)

09/02/2014                  Dimensional Analysis or The Factor-Label Method

 

August  2014

08/31/2014                  Sunday Post Delayed

08/24/2014                  SI System & Scientific Notation

08/19/2014                  Measurement and Significant Figures

08/17/2014                  Next Post

08/10/2014                  Lab – Reaction in a Bag

08/03/2014                  Lab Report Help

 

July  2014

07/27/2014                  Classroom Ideas –Daily Announcements and

                                      Teacher Websites

07/20/2014                  Classroom Grading Programs

07/13/2014                  Chemistry Laboratory Safety

07/06/2014                  Decorating Your Classroom

 


June  2014

06/29/2014                  Summer Vacation

06/22/2014                  Scientist Research

06/15/2014                  End of Year Activity – Lab Clean-Up

06/08/2014               Final Exams – End of Year Preparation

O6/01/2014                 High School Lab Activity –Tie Dyeing

 

May  2014

05/28/2014                  Organic Chemistry – Chemical Reactions

05/25/2014                  Organic Chemistry – Organic Compounds

05/21/2014                  Organic Chemistry – Alkanes, Alkenes & Alkynes

05/18/2014                  Electrochemistry – Electrolytic Cells

05/14/2014                  Electrochemistry – Electrochemical Cells

05/10/2014                  New Schedule

05/07/2014                  Electrochemistry – Balancing Redox Reactions

05/04/2014                  Electrochemistry – Redox Basics

 

April  2014

04/30/2014                  Acids & Bases – Lewis Theory & Buffers

04/24/2014                  Acids & Bases – Titration

04/22/2014                  The Next Post is Coming! (computer problems)

04/20/2014                  4/20 Post (computer problems)

04/16/2014                  Acids & Bases – Bronsted-Lowry and K-acid

04/13/2014                  Acids & Bases – Arrhenius theory and pH

04/09/2014                  Acids, Bases & Salts – Intro

04/06/2014                  The Equilibrium Constant and Gibb’s Free Energy

04/02/2014                  Equilibrium & Le Chatelier’s Principle

 

March  2014

03/30/2014                  Reaction Rates (includes Potential Energy Diagram video & 
                                       worksheets)

  03/26/2014                  Vapor Pressure, BP/FP, and Molality

03/23/2014                  Molarity

03/19/2014                  Properties of Solutions

03/16/2014                  Dipole-dipole forces, etc.

03/12/2014                  Polarity and Intermolecular Forces

03/09/2014                  Lewis Structures and VSEPR theory

03/05/2014                  Heat and Energy

03/02/2014                  Heating and Cooling Curves

 

February  2014

02/26/2014                  Isotopes and empirical/molecular formulas

02/23/2014                  The Periodic Table

02/19/2014                  Electrons in the Atom

02/16/2014                  Atomic Structure

02/12/2014                  Intramolecular Forces (ionic, covalent and metallic bonds)

  02/09/14                      Ideal Gas Law

02/05/14                      Combined Gas Law

02/02/14                      Gay Lussac’s Law

 

January  2014

01/29/2014                  Charles’ Law

01/26/2014                  Boyle’s Law

01/22/2014                  Combustion of a Hydrocarbon

01/18/2014                  Double Replacement Reactions

01/16/2014                  Combination of Magnesium and Oxygen

01/14/2014                  Decomposition of Sodium Bicarbonate

01/11/2014                  New Schedule (Single Replacement Reaction –

                                          Cu with Ag)
 

01/10/2014                  2nd Entry (Mole Conversions and Moletown Map)

01/08/2014                  Day One (General Introduction)




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