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The Science department at @RyeStAntony, an independent day & boarding school for girls aged 3 - 18, and boys aged from 3 - 11.

Oxford, England
Joined February 2016
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Sasha and Nina made a whole rainbow of indicators using just leaves and petals!
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This year’s Chemistree brought to you by our fabulous Year 12 chemists
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Top class crystalling here from Year 10!
Scarie Curie the scientist scarecrow wishes you all a safe and spooky Halloween 🎃
Happy National Poetry Day!
Expert-level nylon making here from Year 11
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Wow….!
🌈 Inclusive column chromatography at #LovelyMarburg 🏰❤️ Fairy-tale wonderland 🦄 #scienceisforeverybody Chemical Biology is beautiful 🤩😍 Credits go to Lei 👩‍🔬who actually made this column!😅
On 20 August 1897 Nobel Prize laureate Ronald Ross discovered the link between mosquitos and malaria transmission. "The work, was most exhausting, and so blinding that I could scarcely see afterwards," he wrote in his notebook. #NobelPrize
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...and so we named one of our labs for her. – at Bampton, England
Medicine laureate Tu Youyou discovered artemisinin – an anti-malarial that has saved the lives of millions of people worldwide. Tu not only found a way to extract artemisinin from a traditional Chinese medicine, she also tested the new drug on herself to speed up development.
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Year 12 made their own indicators today and very pretty they were too
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It works! First one out of the blocks in the Year 7 build-a-boat challenge! – at Oxford, England
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Year 11 making aspirin like total pros in their chemistry Next Steps lesson
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Eclipse watching with y13 when the sun came out (to go in), briefly.
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There will be a partial solar eclipse over the UK tomorrow morning. The eclipse starts at 10.08am and will reach maximum at 11.14am You will need eye protection to view it safely and it may be visible through thin cloud. The sun will appear to have had a bite taken out of it.
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Last but one Year 11 lesson. These girls rock, every single one of them. – at Oxford, England
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Physics required practical bringing out the artistic and problem-solving sides of year 10. The pink Maserati has been put into therapy, apparently as it kept driving off the edge. @MaseratiGB – at Oxford, England
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On 28 April 1962 Linus Pauling (shown left, holding sign) joined protesters in front of the White House to protest against the testing of nuclear weapons. The chemistry laureate was awarded the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize for his fight against the nuclear arms race.
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