This Day in Science History - May 7 - Edwin Land
May 7th is Edwin Land's birthday. Land was an American scientist, inventor and entrepreneur. He studied chemistry at Harvard for a while, but left to live in New York. There, ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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Is Alum Toxic?
Alum is a common household chemical. You'll find it in baking powder, deodorants, maraschino cherries, styptic pencils, aftershave and some pickles. It is also used as an emetic (to cause ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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Did You Know: Taurine Is Not an Amino Acid
It's commonly believed that taurine is an amino acid. There are a few reasons for the misconception. The chemical name for taurine is 2-aminoethanesulfonic acid, so it has an amino ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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Your Tequila May Contain Methanol
Happy Cinco de Mayo! If your holiday celebration includes tequila, you may be interested to know the American Chemical Society (ACS) has found that some tequila contains methanol, 2-methyl-1-butanol and ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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This Day in Science History - May 6 - Jean Senebier
May 6th is Jean Senebier's birthday. He was the Swiss botanist who was the first to identify that plants need carbon dioxide and release oxygen when exposed to light. It ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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What Is a Heavy Metal?
A heavy metal, in the general sense, is a metal which is toxic and has a high density, specific gravity or atomic weight. Examples of heavy metals include lead, mercury ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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This Day in Science History - May 5 - First American in Space
May 5th, 1961 marks the day the United States launched their first man into space. Alan Shepard made a 15 minute sub-orbital trek aboard a Redstone 3 rocket named Freedom ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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Household Uses of Muriatic Acid
Muriatic acid is one of the names used for hydrochloric acid or HCl, which is a potent strong acid. You can buy this acid at a home supply store, among ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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This Day in Science History - May 4 - Idaho Gem
May 4th is Idaho Gem's birthday. Idaho Gem was a mule foal that was the result of research by the University of Idaho and Utah State University and the first ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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Aluminum or Aluminium?
I've received multiple questions about the naming of element 13, which I call aluminum and most of the world calls aluminium. Why are there two names? Sir Humphry Davy proposed ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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This Day in Science History - May 3 - George Thomson
May 3rd is George Paget Thomson's birthday. George Thompson received half the 1937 Nobel Prize in Physics for photographing diffraction patterns made when a beam of electrons is beamed through ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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Scientists Create Element 117
You may recall back in April of 2010 a team of Russian and American scientists discovered the existence of element 117, which has the placeholder name ununseptium. Yet, the element ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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How To Make an Instant Soft Drink Slushy
Bottled water isn't the only liquid you can supercool into slush on command. You can apply the same principle to make instant slush out of your cola or sports drink. ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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Fire Magic Tricks
Have you noticed a significant proportion of my science magic tricks involve fire? I don't actually go around my house lighting things on fire, though I do confess to a ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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How a Baking Soda and Vinegar Volcano Works
The baking soda and vinegar volcano is a popular science project, but the science part of the project involves explaining how the reaction models a real volcano or explaining the ...Read Full Post (Source: About.com Chemistry)
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