Chemistry Made Simple

Chemistry Made Simple

7 episodes

Helping you understand chemistry topics from A-Level and Advanced Higher. Get more guidance, deeper resources and a helpful community at ChemistryMadeSimple.net If you want to demystify chemistry, yearn for a simpler explanation and want to hear all the tips that will help you at exam time you're at the right place. I'm a chemistry tutor who is used to explaining chemistry in simpler terms, and I love to use an analogy to help with the understanding. Each episode tackles a topic, explaining it as simply as possible - well it is chemistry! The end-of-episode summary will make sure you have useful takeaways to help you on your way.

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What Changes With the Atomic Model When We Introduce Basic Quantum Mechanics?

Published: Jan. 16, 2024, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 17 seconds

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Experiment Using a Polarimeter to Measure Optical Activity - Including a Novel Analogy

Published: Jan. 2, 2024, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 59 seconds

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What are Optical Isomerism, Chirality, Enantiomers and Plane-Polarized Light

Published: Dec. 29, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 58 seconds

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How to Use and Understand 'Curly Arrows' in Reaction Mechanisms

Published: Nov. 21, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 11 seconds

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What are Reaction Mechanisms, Electrophiles and Nucleophiles

Published: Nov. 14, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 46 seconds

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Determining the Rate Equation for a Chemical Reaction

Published: Nov. 8, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 3 seconds

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What is the Rate Constant, and How to Use it.

Published: Oct. 24, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 37 seconds

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What is the rate of reaction, and how can you find it experimentally?

Published: Oct. 17, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 45 seconds

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How To Predict Whether a Reaction Can Proceed, and at what Temperature - Gibbs Free Energy Change

Published: Oct. 11, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 10 seconds

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What is Entropy in Chemistry?

Published: Sept. 26, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 40 seconds

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Why I started This Podcast

Published: Sept. 20, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 58 seconds

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How to Create and Use a Born-Haber Cycle

Published: June 13, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 54 seconds

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What Are Mean Bond Enthalpies?

Published: June 6, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 28 seconds

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Standard Enthalpy of Solution Hsol

Published: June 1, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 18 seconds

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Standard Enthalpy of Hydration Hhyd

Published: May 30, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 17 seconds

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Lattice Enthalpy of Formation HL

Published: May 25, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 43 seconds

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Electron Affinity Hea

Published: May 23, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 37 seconds

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Ionization Energy Hie

Published: May 18, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 57 seconds

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Standard Enthalpy of Atomization Hat

Published: May 16, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 2 seconds

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Standard Enthalpy of Combustion Hc

Published: May 11, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 51 seconds

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Standard Enthalpy of Formation Hf

Published: May 9, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 23 seconds

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What is a Catalyst in Chemistry?

Published: May 2, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 12 seconds

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How to Compare Maxwell-Boltzmann Distributions at Different Temperatures

Published: April 25, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 4 seconds

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What is Collision Theory and How Does it Affect the Rate of Chemical Reactions?

Published: April 18, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 15 seconds

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What is Mean Bond Enthalpy and How Do I Use It?

Published: April 11, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 19 seconds

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How to use Enthalpy of Formation and Enthalpy of Combustion to Calculate Enthalpy of Reaction - Hess's Law

Published: March 28, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 27 seconds

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How to Calculate Enthalpy Changes for Combustion and Neutralisation

Published: March 23, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 56 seconds

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What is Enthalpy and Enthalpy Change?

Published: March 14, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 3 seconds

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What is Thermochemistry and Chemical Energetics? An Introduction to Thermochemistry

Published: March 7, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 50 seconds

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Using Mass Spectroscopy to Catch Cheating Athletes

Published: Feb. 28, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 45 seconds

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How to Use the Data Sheet with Infra Red Spectra

Published: Feb. 21, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 26 seconds

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Simple Test Tube Reactions to Identify Organic Compond

Published: Feb. 7, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 59 seconds

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The Reactions of Alcohols and How to Get What You Want from Alcohols.

Published: Jan. 31, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 14 seconds

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What are Alcohols and What are Their Key Features? Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Alcohols.

Published: Jan. 24, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 57 seconds

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Elimination vs Nucleophilic Substitution in Halogenoalkanes

Published: Jan. 17, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 49 seconds

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Nucleophiles and Nucleophilic Substitution of Halogenoalkanes

Published: Jan. 10, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 43 seconds

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What are Halogenoalkanes (and Haloalkanes)? What are Their Properties and Reactivity?

Published: Jan. 3, 2023, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 23 seconds

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Addition Polymers - How Polyethene is Made

Published: Dec. 6, 2022, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 53 seconds

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What is Electrophilic Addition? | Reactions of Alkenes

Published: Nov. 23, 2022, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 50 seconds

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Study Accountability starts this weekend!

Published: Nov. 22, 2022, 6 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 27 seconds

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Alkene Functional Group and General Formula - Alkenes vs Alkanes

Published: Nov. 8, 2022, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 47 seconds

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How the Free Radical Mechanism forms Halogenoalkanes from Alkanes

Published: Nov. 1, 2022, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 38 seconds

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How to Know if Combustion is Complete or Incomplete - Combustion of Alkanes

Published: Oct. 25, 2022, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 32 seconds

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What are the Nature, Formula and Properties of Alkanes?

Published: Oct. 18, 2022, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 54 seconds

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What are Isomers and What is Isomerism?

Published: Oct. 11, 2022, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 31 seconds

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What are Functional Groups and Homologous Series?

Published: Oct. 7, 2022, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 41 seconds

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How to Show the Structure of Organic Molecules

Published: Sept. 27, 2022, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 25 seconds

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What is Organic Chemistry, and What is So Special About Carbon?

Published: Sept. 15, 2022, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 25 seconds

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What are van der Waals, Dipole-Dipole and Hydrogen Bonding?

Published: Aug. 2, 2022, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 53 seconds

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What is Electronegativity and How Does it Make Bonds Polar

Published: July 19, 2022, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 32 seconds

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What is Metallic Bonding and How Does it Work?

Published: July 12, 2022, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 14 seconds

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What is Covalent Bonding and How Does it Work?

Published: July 5, 2022, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 18 seconds

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What is Ionic Bonding and How Does it Work?

Published: June 28, 2022, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 43 seconds

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How and Why Chemical Bonds are Formed - Chemical Bonding I

Published: June 21, 2022, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 48 seconds

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How to do the Analytical Chemistry Question in Your Exam

Published: May 31, 2022, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 33 seconds

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What Happens to Ionization Energy Across a Period - Periodicity IV

Published: May 24, 2022, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 31 seconds

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Two Must-Know Trends in Melting and Boiling Points - Periodicity III

Published: May 17, 2022, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 26 seconds

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Trends in Atomic Radii across the periodic table - Periodicity II

Published: May 10, 2022, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 1 second

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Trends Across the Periodic Table - Periodicity I

Published: May 5, 2022, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 27 seconds

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Atom Economy vs Yield

Published: March 1, 2022, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes

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How to Work Out Half Equations - Redox III

Published: Jan. 25, 2022, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 18 seconds

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How to Assign Oxidation States or Numbers - Redox II

Published: Jan. 18, 2022, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 45 seconds

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Introduction to Oxidation, Reduction and Redox Reactions - Redox I

Published: Jan. 11, 2022, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 19 seconds

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How to Name Organic Compounds - Nomenclature II

Published: Dec. 21, 2021, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 26 seconds

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How to Name Inorganic Compounds - Nomenclature I

Published: Dec. 14, 2021, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 49 seconds

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How to Balance Chemical Equations (Full, ionic and half equations)

Published: Nov. 23, 2021, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 11 seconds

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How to Use the Ideal Gas Equation

Published: Nov. 2, 2021, 1 a.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 28 seconds

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How to Use Moles for Gases - Molar Volume

Published: Oct. 19, 2021, 1 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 30 seconds

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Why the Mole is the Most Important College Chemistry Concept

Published: Oct. 5, 2021, 1 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 43 seconds

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Is A-Level Chemistry Really THAT difficult?

Published: Sept. 7, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 32 seconds

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What Is Titration and How Does it Work?

Published: June 1, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 4 seconds

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Everything About Acidic Buffers : Composition, How They Work, and How To Do Calculations

Published: May 11, 2021, 9 a.m.
Duration: 12 minutes 22 seconds

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Bonus Episode: How to Recognise a Weak Acid?

Published: May 6, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 5 minutes 2 seconds

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Using the Acid Dissociation Constant Ka with Weak Acids

Published: April 26, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 25 seconds

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Strong Acids, Weak Acids and pH

Published: April 13, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 35 seconds

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How To Use the Equilibrium Constant Kc

Published: March 30, 2021, 2 p.m.
Duration: 11 minutes 24 seconds

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What are Equilibria and Reversible Reactions?

Published: March 16, 2021, 11 a.m.
Duration: 14 minutes 11 seconds

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What are Isotopes?

Published: March 2, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 7 minutes 9 seconds

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How Mass Spectrometers Work

Published: Feb. 16, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 19 seconds

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Atomic Orbitals and the True Nature of Electrons

Published: Feb. 9, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 9 minutes 13 seconds

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What is Quantum Mechanics?

Published: Feb. 2, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 31 seconds

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How the Atomic Model Changes at A-Level

Published: Jan. 26, 2021, 6 a.m.
Duration: 6 minutes 47 seconds

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What is the Chemistry Made Simple Podcast?

Published: Jan. 19, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 3 minutes 35 seconds

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