Isotopes Matter!
How do we know what the temperature of our planet was a million years ago, to better understand climate change? Where did Őtzi the Iceman live as a child and an adult? What evidence gives doping agencies the gold standard to determine whether testosterone in an athlete’s sample comes from doping? How do we obtain 3D images of tumors in soft tissues?
The answers to all of these questions and many more can be revealed through a deeper understanding of isotopes of the elements. Isotopes matter!
These new resources are created for educators and students at secondary and post-secondary levels, and to inform the public about the many uses of isotopes in our lives. They are based on educational practices that encourage engaged and active learning by students.
The new IUPAC interactive electronic periodic table and accompanying educational materials were created by a partnership between an IUPAC Project team of scientists and educators, and researchers at the King’s Centre for Visualization in Science, and build on the work of a previous IUPAC project team to create a print version of the Periodic Table of the Isotopes.
“This project responds to requests by educators and students for resources highlighting the importance of isotopes in our lives, and that give students help in using interval atomic weights for elements. www.ISOTOPESMATTER.com brings free engaging and interactive learning resources to the fingertips of students and educators around the world,” says Task Group Co-Chair Peter Mahaffy, Professor of Chemistry at the King’s University in Canada, and co-director of the King’s Centre for Visualization in Science.
And Norman Holden, retired Research Coordinator of the High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR) and the Brookhaven Medical Research Reactor (BMMR) and a Guest Scientist at the National Nuclear Data Center (NNDC) of Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, adds: “It’s great when scientists and educators work together to create a vehicle to provide students with an understanding of fundamental scientific facts and accomplish this internationally. “
Following the global launch on August 17, 2016, the new IUPAC interactive electronic periodic table and accompanying resources can be accessed at www.isotopesmatter.com. A print version of the periodic table of the isotopes and elements is available at https://ciaaw.org/periodic-table-isotopes.htm. Further details will be published in the peer-reviewed IUPAC Journal, Pure and Applied Chemistry.
Contact:
Dr. Peter Mahaffy, IUPAC Project Task Force Co-Chair
Co-Director, The King’s Centre for Visualization in Science
The King’s University, Canada
[email protected]
Dr. Norman Holden, IUPAC Project Task Force Co-Chair
Brookhaven National Laboratories, USA
[email protected]
Dr. Fabienne Meyers
Associate Director, IUPAC
[email protected]
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Coverage of IsotopesMatter and the release of the new IUPAC Periodic Table of the Elements and Isotopes
How to use the IUPAC Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements and Isotopes
Published on Aug 15, 2016 by The King’s Centre for Visualization in Science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogqow9Vi_WA
Using IUPAC’s Isotopes Matter as a Digital Learning Tool
Michelle Okroy | chemedx.org, 09/05/2016 – 15:25
https://www.chemedx.org/activity/using-iupacs-isotopes-matter-digital-learning-tool
Interactive tools for teaching chemistry – Periodic table adds isotopes
by Linda Wang, C&EN Volume 94 Issue 35 | p. 64 | Newscripts, Issue Date: September 5, 2016
https://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i35/Interactive-tools-teaching-chemistry.html
Introducing isotopes interactively
by Tim Lougheed, Canadian Chemical News July/August 2016
https://www.cheminst.ca/magazine/news/introducing-isotopes-interactively
New Periodic Table of the Elements and Isotopes
News posted by the Korean Chemical Society, 2016.08.24
https://new.kcsnet.or.kr/eng_news/23813
New IUPAC interactive Periodic Table
EuCheMS News, 17 AUG 2016
https://www.euchems.eu/new-iupac-interactive-periodic-table
Why Isotopes Matter
ChemistryViews.org, Published: 17 August 2016
https://www.chemistryviews.org/details/news/9666281/Why_Isotopes_Matter.html
other notices not in english
https://chemed.chemistry.org.tw/?page_id=3848
https://chemical95.rssing.com/browser.php?indx=9211791&last=1&item=12
https://www.saci.co.za/index.html
https://ensinofisica.wordpress.com/2016/08/19/80-tabela-periodica/