This Day in Science History - March 13 - Joseph Priestley
March 13th is Joseph Priestley's birthday. Priestley was an English natural philosopher who is best known for the discovery of oxygen and other gases. While he was one of the ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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Do the Northern Lights or Aurora Make a Sound?
One interesting science mystery involves the aurora borealis or Northern Lights. Some people report hearing ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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Borax-Free Slime Recipes
Borax or sodium tetraborate is used as a cross-linking agent to make the most common type of homemade slime. However, you may be unable to find borax or you might ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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DIY Magnetic Silly Putty
Putty, specifically Silly Putty, is a cool toy that was originally marketed as an Easter novelty (which is how it came to be sold in eggs). The newest version of ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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This Day in Science History -- March 11 -- Archibald Scott Couper
March 11th marks the passing of Archibald Scott Couper. Couper was a Scottish chemist who discovered carbon atoms were tetravalent and could form long chain molecules. Prior to this discovery, ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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What Is MSG?
MSG is the acronym for monosodium glutamate, which ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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Equilibrium Constants Quiz
How well do you understand the equilibrium constant? Do you understand what is meant when a chemical reaction is at equilibrium?
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Soap in a Test Tube - Quick Soap Chemistry Demo
Typically when people make soap, they make a lot of it. However, you can make a small amount of soap as a chemistry demonstration. This is a terrific example of ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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This Day in Science History - March 10 - Jeremias Richter
March 10th is Jeremias Benjamin Richter's birthday. Richter was a German chemist who introduced the term stoichiometry to chemistry. He noticed the ratio of reactants by weight used in a ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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Make a Hollow Penny
This is an easy chemistry project that uses common materials. You take a post-1982 penny, score the copper surface to expose the zinc interior, react the zinc with acid, and ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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This Day in Science History - March 9 - Stanley Thompson
March 9th is Stanley Thompson's birthday. Thompson was an American nuclear chemist when nuclear chemistry was a brand new subject. In the early days of the Manhattan Project plutonium was ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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What Are the Van Allen Radiation Belts?
You probably have heard of the Van Allen radiation belts, sometimes just called "radiation belts", but might be unclear what they are or what they do. That's okay, because there ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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Update on Alaska
Just to update those of you following my travels, I am in Alaska, getting ready to take the train from Anchorage to Fairbanks. The outlook for the aurora looks great ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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This Day in Science History - March 8 - Otto Hahn
March 8th is Otto Hahn's birthday. Hahn was a German chemist who was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of nuclear fission. Fission is when an ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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Five-Sided Ice Crystals
When you picture a snowflake, you probably envision a six-sided shape. Because of the angle of the bonds between hydrogen and oxygen in water, that geometry is greatly favored over ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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