Professor Dave Explains
Cahn-Ingold-Prelog Convention (Determining R/S)
Learning how to assign absolute configuration (R/S) to any stereocenter.
NASA
North American Forest Dynamics Dataset
Forests are living, ever changing ecosystems, affected by aging, natural disasters and human interventions. Annual maps of the lower-48 United States produced from satellite data illustrate how these dynamic systems changed from...
Curated Video
The Versatile Elements
Let's take a look back at the elements carbon, gold, neon, zirconium, and antimony.
Brian McLogan
How to evaluate an exponential function modeling a real life situation
In this video series you will learn the basics of logarithmic and exponential functions. We will start off by converting between exponential and logarithmic expressions. We do this so that we can understand what a logarithm represents....
Science360
Future floating on CO2
Bubbles will float on a dense layer of cold carbon dioxide. Parts Needed: 1 Bubble blower 1 Fish tank Dry ice
Catalyst University
Grignard Reactions: Theory & Practice with Strategy
Grignard Reactions: Theory & Practice with Strategy
NASA
Why Observe?: Tree Height
"Why Observe?: Tree Height" explores surface height measurement missions and the role that citizen science can play within the scientific community. NASA uses field campaigns and sensors on satellites and the International Space Station...
NASA
NASA | Earth Science Week | How Does the Earth System ...
Climate scientists have been monitoring Earth's energy budget since the 1978 launch of NASA's Nimbus-7 satellite. That mission carried a new instrument into space called the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (or ERBE), designed to...
Catalyst University
Oxymercuration/Demurcuration: Theory, Mechanism, and Examples
Oxymercuration/Demurcuration: Theory, Mechanism, and Examples
Next Animation Studio
Cap and trade explained
Emissions trading or "cap and trade" is a market-based solution to control pollution. The government puts a limit, or "cap," on the total amount of polluting gasses that may be emitted. The government then issues or sells licenses to...
FuseSchool
What Are Carbon Footprints
You can reduce your own contribution to climate change by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide you release into the atmosphere. Your carbon footprint is measured by the amount of extra carbon dioxide your lifestyle adds to the...
Professor Dave Explains
Oxidation of Alkenes Using Potassium Permanganate (Hot and Cold Conditions)
We've seen that KMnO4 can oxidize alcohols and aldehydes to give carboxylic acids and ketones, but this reagent can also oxidize alkenes. The product(s) will be different depending on whether we use cold basic conditions or hot acidic...
Brian McLogan
Using Carbon dating to determine the age of a fossil
Using Carbon dating to determine the age of a fossil
Sustainable Business Consulting
Institutional Investors and Shareholder Proposals
Describes how insitutional investors and shareholder proposals are playing a big part in the sustainable finance market
Curated Video
I WONDER - How Does Deforestation Contribute To Global Warming?
This video is answering the question of how does deforestation contribute to global warming.
Professor Dave Explains
Wolff-Kishner Reduction
How can we reduce a ketone or aldehyde all the way to the alkane? We already learn one way, Clemmensen reduction. But what if we don't have any amalgamated zinc handy, you ask? Well there's an older way called Wolff-Kishner reduction....
Professor Dave Explains
Ritter Reaction
It's the Ritter reaction! Named after its inventor, John Ritter. No, not the actor from Three's Company. A different guy. This is a great way to go from an alcohol or alkene to an amine. How does it work? What are chemists doing with...
Curated Video
Addition Polymerization and Polymer Disposal
The video provides an overview of addition polymerization, explaining the process of how monomers can be joined together to form larger molecules called polymers. It discusses the use of functional groups that can react to form bonds...
NASA
Temperature Record 101: How We Know What We Know about Climate Change
2021 was tied for the sixth warmest year on NASA’s record, stretching more than a century. But, what is a temperature record? GISTEMP, NASA’s global temperature analysis, takes in millions of observations from instruments on weather...
Curated Video
I WONDER - What Is The Carbon Cycle?
This video is answering the question of what is the carbon cycle.
One Minute History
Coal - One Minute History_1080
Coal. The carbon based result of water, rocks and dirt compressing plant life for millions of years. Cavemen used coal for heat, light and cooking. The earliest coal mines were discovered in China, dating back over 3000 years. The use of...