How do Christmas crackers work? Test your chemistry knowledge and skills while learning some history of chemistry: isaacscience.org/questions/ch...

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Spend a merry moment or two pondering this moments question: isaacscience.org/questions/me...

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Today's question uses the core GCSE and A Level Chemistry skill of calculating empirical formulae on two compounds responsible for the bitter taste (to some!) of Brussels sprouts: isaacscience.org/questions/bi...

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This talk was in the Ray Dolby Centre (the new Cavendish lab) and doing chemistry demos in a new physics building is always a bit more complicated without dedicated prep rooms, technicians, etc😀

(I will be doing some IA lectures in the BMS LT from 2027, so plenty of time to prep fun demos!)

And finally a guncotton Guy Fawkes effigy. #RealTimeChem

Burning a guncotton bird. #RealTimeChem

Published on Mole Day, nice, ha!

Some great murals!

Very relieved!

Just checked, and over the last couple of months I appear to have received at least 10 messages from HMRC (via various means) suggesting I fill in my 24/25 tax return early but not a single reminder to pay today...

I think they do pay interest when you pay them early. And then it shows up as lots of random-seeming small amounts of money (one of these is 2p!) on the paperwork. I've given up understanding the details, to be honest...!

Sorted now, phew.