John Baum

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Awards GALORE for the department this year! Massive congratulations to our Faculty of Science and Technology award winners and to all those nominated 🎉 We are very lucky to have such incredible staff @LancsUniSciTech

@Andrestrujado I enjoy doing the bouncy ball across the temperature range (room temp to liq N2). Room temp very bouncy little noise , liquid nitrogen, metallic sound and does bounce may shatter if your very forceful. Dry ice temp no bounce!

3...2...1....here goes the squash ball after a short bath in liquid nitrogen #glassystate

@LaurenceSHall1 I always thought this would be one hiccup away from disaster ...

@annajkirkham Looks like you need to up the {starch} .. to get a definitive black colour

All ways good when a reaction works first time 😁 Briggs Rausher reaction for #Thisisamazingchemistry

@RSC_EiC @DrAllan12 I enjoy the superglue fingerprint residue demo.

@DrAllan12 Do you have a favourite polymer activity that you feel does work well in the classroom? Thanks for sharing!

Teachers: how you would you use this resource? And could you tell us what ages you'd use it with in the replies. edu.rsc.org/experiments/pv… #edutwitter

#Kudos to Dr Sara Baldock of @LancUniChem who is lead author of an exciting paper on #additive #manufacturing of #bioelectronics with @JGHardyLab & folks in @LancsUniEng. #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience #TechnicianCommitment #N8Technicians @NTDCtweets @TechsCommit

@Caroline_Bartma waiting for someone to write .."my products on my shoe blues"

@UncleBo80053383 @CLEAPSS @RSC_EiC @SciInSchool @ChemEdX I should add I place these in each of the fume hoods to enable students to do weighing of reagents (ca 1-5g) without waiting for a free balance. This is true time saver, however they do share the space with the odd incontinent acetone bottles. So not always the students fault😀

@UncleBo80053383 @CLEAPSS @RSC_EiC @SciInSchool @ChemEdX One thing I have found is they are not very solvent resistant and I tend to go for the £15 ones now after melting a few in organic synthesis. absolutely fine for Aq systems.

Students can have "their own 2-decimal place balance for <£10". They can now directly experience the conservation mass during precipitation reactions using small-scale techniques from @CLEAPSS to limit disposal issues. #chatchemistry #ASEChat @RSC_EiC @SciInSchool @ChemEdX.

@NoContextBrits when Pooh sticks goes bad

@RoySocChem Well chuffed will have a celebratory ginger beer or two 😀

The #RSCEdu primary/secondary education prize goes to @BaumV 😀 Congratulations on your brilliant #RSCPoster! twitter.com/BaumV/status/1…

With so many inspiring posters shared during #RSCPoster 2023, it was hard for our judges to pick their favourites, but we now have the final results! Discover all the winners 👉rsc.li/3Ls8Nt3

@Andrestrujado Did you get chance to say " it Lives !! "

Science Technicians are the best! We managed to get this De la Rive tube demo from early 19th century working 👍😀 #electricegg #TECHOGNITION #highvoltage ⚡️

@JGHardyLab I could be tears ...... of joy

#laboratory #CleanUp after several weeks of #chemistry #teaching labs and pondering what #MYSTERY #juice the #students have left... #chemtwitter #TeamBasedLearning #ActiveLearning #Engagement

@chembameditor i find it of great benifit to the training of technicians supporting teaching. Great for confidence and development of the technician as a demonstrator in undergraduate teaching lab. It is fun and something they own.

@dbrahmchari PowerPoint for all poster .. hope that helps

@BaumV A cool poster, very well presented Can you please specify which software was used for drawing vials, etc?

#RSCPoster #RSCEdu Poster detailing an outreach resource for chemistry. Column chromatography in a box: Separation of Ibuprofen and Paracetamol An extension experiment for A-level/BTEC students re-purposing plastic syringes to construct a mini-column.

@testtuberevise that is the idea " a Really useful box" courier sans solvent or pickup/ in-house delivery for local schools.

@BaumV This looks great! Is it the kind of thing you could box up and mail out to schools to loan?

@DrKevinMorgan I think the demonstration could work, have done it on a larger 20 mL syringe column with 200 mg sample. You could get the students to do TLC analysis and demo the column, and distribute fractions.