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Introduction
This page will be resources for Chemistry, Biology, Physics and more. It won't get big for a while as my children aren't covering this in school yet, but when they do...
In retrospect I'd have hated it - which is probably why I never went to university when I should have - but I was going to do a degree in chemistry after high school. I was a lab assistant helping research aluminium based paints and explosives for a while mind, and a lab tech for a food company too.
I still vaguely recall my first Thomas Salter chemistry kit. Heheh, happy days!
- New Scientist - All your science related questions under one roof.
General Links of interest
- Global Village: The Institute for Appropriate Technology
Ecology type site with detailed articles covering everything agriculture to wind generators. i.e.:
- Animal Husbandry: Bee Keeping
- Cold weather survival
- How to make an igloo
- Principles Of Hydroponics Gardening
- U.S. Army Field Survival Manual: Edible and medicinal plants
- Solar Power Generator
- Animal Husbandry: Bee Keeping
- The Farm - another eco village
- Newsfactors -
Enterprise strength news and product reviews
A fascinating site full of news about groundbreaking technologies like 50 Tb hard drives to genetics to really scary stuff (in my opinion) like this serious article about alternate dimensions and creating black holes in the lab. The theory is these ultra tiny star killers will pull themselves apart... - Sciencenet
Chemistry
Out of interest, I was first, and foremost a lab rat. Even got a straight 'A' in chemistry and went on to work in a variety of labs, including R&D into aluminium based painted and explosives. That was decades ago mind. *cough*
What I will do sometime, if I remember, is copy up a few resources - equations, histories, etc.
- Goodfellow's
Actually a commercial company selling specialist elements and compounds but informative too. - Theodore Gray's Periodic Table
You have to see this site, it's awesome. The guy made a huge wooden table and carved the periodic table into block on it. For nearly every element there's picture of samples in raw and refined form and in depth chemical notations, up to and including the valency states!
If you are a chemistry teacher or lecturer - even up to degree level - you have to see this site. It's one of those that you REALLY hope stays a permanent link... - Period Table
This periodic table made me sit up. There's several extra elements I don't remember. Apparently the table goes clean the way up to 118 now with nomenclature to cover up to Atomic Number 900!. Probably lab creations with millisecond half-lifes rather than naturally occurring elements - Elements by Atomic weight
- There's masses more to be found at IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry)
