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#FLchemistry Exploring Everyday Chemistry aims to expand your chemical knowledge: A @UniofYork award-winning free online course ~29k learners #FutureLearn

United Kingdom Katılım Eylül 2016
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Big thanks to @RoySocChem for arranging a clip to promote our 2021 Horizon Prize for Education. The @UniOfYork team behind Exploring Everyday Chemistry discuss why the course was developed & its impact. The intro/outro were inspired by a Guy Ritchie film! youtube.com/watch?v=fEbq34…
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Lovely recent learner feedback for our free online course, “Thank you so much for the course! It was incredibly interesting and easy to follow/understand. It also helped me further understand how chemistry is actually used in the real world!” futurelearn.com/courses/everyd… @FutureLearn
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Flicking through the latest version of Chemistry Review - a magazine for a level students. From sustainable fuels to autoxidation of aldehydes and a sudoku puzzle testing knowledge of the periodic table. #alevelchemistry @HL_Magazines
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Think your morning orange is just vitamin C? 🍊 Discover the chemistry inside every drop – from juice terpenes to peel flavonoids & how chemists spot fake “fresh” juice. In the latest Chemistry Review: The Chemistry Behind Your Morning Orange. #AlevelChemistry @HL_Magazines
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Don't turn a hair on #BeBaldAndBeFreeDay The story of minoxidil shows how serendipitous drug discovery can be; it first came to market as Loniten, a drug used to treat high blood pressure, but users found it increased hair growth & a topical formulation was developed #hairraising
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Near the knuckle #WorldArthritisDay Recently, when N-acetylcysteine was added to drinking water given to mice with osteoarthritis, it reduced the level of joint damage to that in healthy, control mice; this antioxidant stops damage to cartilage tissue (oxidative stress) #radical
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As an Ig Nobel prize & ice-cream fan, a big shout out ahead of #AdaLovelaceDay to Dr Mayu Yamamoto (Int. Medical Center of Japan); 2007 prize winner/inspired a new ice cream flavour (Yum-A-Moto Vanilla Twist) for developing a way to extract vanillin from cow dung #creamofthecrop
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Relate to 8 #WorldOctopusDay! The gene for encoding the serotonin transporter in our brain is also found in certain octopuses, despite their evolutionary lineage being separated from our own by over 500 million yrs; they are more similar to us than we think! #greatmindsthinkalike
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Time for an early bath #BathtubDay! Breaking Bad fans will remember the bathtub scene; using hydrofluoric acid to dissolve a body. HF is toxic & corrosive reacting with metals & the Si-O bonds in glass, but is classified as a weak acid as it does not dissociate in H2O #intheflesh
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Stick to your guns on #GlobalJamesBondDay! Fans will be aware of the sedative effects of chloral hydrate (a 'Mickey Finn') knockout drops; in 1995, NASA tested the effects of this hydrate on house spiders; they fell asleep before completing the web #webofintrigue #takethemickey
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Pipe up on #TootYourFluteDay! Excessive saliva can be an issue; perhaps a valuable cleaning commodity after 2018 Ig Nobel Prize winning research recognised the polishing power of saliva, attributed to α-amylase (which can break down starches to sugars like maltose) #spitandpolish
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Be full of beans #NationalCoffeeDay! Coffee merchants have been sued for not warning consumers their product contains acrylamide, but there is no real evidence to suggest the levels of acrylamide found in coffee have an effect on human cancer risk #storminacoffeecup #realtimechem
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Veg out #NationalPotatoDay! Exposure of tubers to light gives a green coloration due to chlorophyll; not a health concern, but it indicates the presence of glycoalkaloids inc poisonous solanine, a natural defence to help prevent the tuber being eaten #attackisthebestformofdefence
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Bite off more than you can chew on #NationalSnackStickDay! Pepperoni is made from cured pork/beef seasoned with paprika - the main flavouring constituent is capsaicin. Gastric-psychologists think people seek out tongue-numbing hot food because of “benign masochism” #somelikeithot
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Be small minded #MiniatureGolfDay Stiff but hard-wearing high-trans polybutadiene used to be used as the outer layer of golf balls; the pitted coating affects how the ball rolls, how it feels when it is hit by a club & reduce a ball’s drag as it flies through the air #pickholesin
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Snap, Crackle & Pop #RiceKrispiesTreatsDay On cooking, rice expands forming air-filled caves & strong bonds form between starch molecules giving a glass-like material. When milk flows into the tunnels it puts pressure on the air inside, causing the walls to shatter #underpressure
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