This Day in Science History - April 15
April 15th is tax day in the United States.
It is also the birthday of Leonardo Da Vinci, three Nobel Prize winners and two other prominent scientists. Find out who they ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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How Safe Are Sparklers on Cake?
You know how I love fire, so I don't consider a cake completely decorated until it has at least one sparkler! Yet, just how safe are pyrotechnics on your food? ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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This Day in Science History - April 14 - Christiaan Huygens
April 14th is the birthday of Christiaan Huygens. Huygens was the champion of the wave nature of light at the time Newton was arguing the corpuscular nature of light. Is ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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Make Your Own Easter Egg Dyes
You have the ingredients to make your own natural Easter egg dyes in your kitchen and garden. Dyeing eggs using colors you made yourself is a fun pigment chemistry project, ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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Carbonated Ice Cream Recipe
Have you tried fizzy ice cream? It has the flavor and bubbles of an ice cream float without the soda. It's an extremely easy recipe to try. It doesn't even ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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This Day in Science History - April 13 - Annie Jump Cannon
Oh, Be A Fine Girl - Kiss Me!
This mnemonic is learned by many astronomy students to remember the spectral type letters of stars. April 13th marks the passing of the ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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Is Your Old Bottle of Sunscreen Still Good?
When I clean up my car, which isn't very often, I always come across sunglasses and old bottles of sunscreen that I had been unable to find. The sunscreen cooks ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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Water into Wine Chemistry Demonstration
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Animated Periodic Table (Chemistry Humor)
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This Day in Science History - April 12 - Nobel's Premature Obituary
April 12th was a big day in manned space flight history. Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space and NASA launched the first Space Shuttle flight.
It was also the ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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Boil Water in a Paper Bag
Here's an interesting project for you to try: boil ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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White Smoke Chemistry Demonstration
Here's an interesting chemistry demonstration for you. Take a container of ammonia and react it with a small amount of hydrochloric acid to produce ammonium chloride. The reaction proceeds very ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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This Day in Science History - April 11 - Leslie and Hilleman
April 11th is the birthday of two major scientists in the fields of medical science. Percy Julian and Maurice Hilleman both made extensive contributions to everyday health of everyone through ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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Chemical Reaction Classification Quiz
Do you know the difference between a combustion reaction and a synthesis reaction? How ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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Green Fire Twister... and Other Colors!
Since posting instructions for the fire tornado project, I have received requests to describe the green fire twister in greater detail and to list chemicals that may be used to produce other colors of flame. Basically, what you want to do is dissolve the appropriate powdered chemical in alcohol. The reason you use alcohol is because it has a blue flame that is easily colored by the emission spectra of other ions. You will want to dissolve salts to dissociate them into ions. Here is a list of common colorants and where to find them:
Carmine - lithium salts - found in lithium batteries
Red - strontium nitrate - found in emer...
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