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Focusing on Lenses
Students explore scientific observations by examining the parts of a microscope. For this optics lesson, students discuss the importance of a focal point and focal distance when utilizing an optical device such as a microscope. Students...
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Science Buddies: Study Chirality With a Homemade Polarimeter
Some molecules can be either left- or right-"handed." The left- and right-handed molecules have the same number and type of atoms, and their chemical structures look identical, but they are actually mirror images of each other. Many...
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Portland State University: Chapter 5 Notes: Stereochemistry
Notes explaining the basic concepts of stereochemistry.
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University at Albany: Stereochemistry: Chirality
A PowerPoint presentation that explains chirality and chiral molecules.