Romanian students won six medals at the D. Mendeleev International Chemistry Olympiad organized in Yerevan between May 3 and May 10.

Dumitru Calugaru and Andrei Iliescu got the gold medals. Calugaru got a perfect score. Both he and Iliescu also won gold medals at last year's edition of the competition, which took place in Moscow.

Paul Haidu-Gerea, Cristian Robert Raclea and Silvestru-Alexandru Big won silver medals and the bronze medal went to Tiberiu Alexandru Pana, according to the Romanian Ministry of Education. .

The competition involved a total of three tests with an extremely high degree of complexity. Two of them were theoretical and one was practical/experimental.

A total of 95 students from 15 countries attended the D. Mendeleev International Chemistry Olympiad.

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Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com