Chemistry is a language. Some organic chemistry professors drop that analogy on their students, hoping to get them to see how learning symbols, rules, and suffixes can lead to a broader understanding ...

Thought experiment: a carbon dioxide molecule—think of a cheerleader’s baton—comes slanting in at high speed over a dense liquid, strikes the surface and ricochets. How does it tumble? Fast or slow?

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Lessons on the periodic table and the chemical structure of food could be erased from VCE chemistry classes to make room for the ...