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Chemistry demonstrations in which solutions appear to magically change color leave a lasting impression on students and help instill an interest in science. Here's a color change demo in which a solution seems to change from water to wine to milk to beer simply be being poured into the appropriate beverage glass. Difficulty: Average Time Required: Prepare the solutions in advance; demo time is up to you   Here's How: First, prepare the glassware, since this demonstration relies on the presence of chemicals added to the glasses before the 'water' is added. For the 'water' glass: Fill the glass about 3/4 full of distilled water. Add 20-25 ml of saturated sodium bicarbonate with 20% sodium carbonate solution. The solution should have a pH = 9. Place a few drops of phenolphthalein indicator in the bottom of the wine glass. Pour ~10 ml saturated barium chloride solution into the bottom of the milk glass. Place a very small number of crysta...

Find a science project that is perfect for Valentine's Day! You can perform a color change reaction, make a chemical "beating heart", prepare a special Valentine gift, and more.

Print or Download the Periodic Table  The Periodic Table of the Elements is one of your best tools for working chemistry problems and making predictions about the properties of the elements. The online periodic table is useful since clicking on a symbol gives detailed element facts that you can't get on a single printed sheet of paper. However, it's really nice to be able to print out the table and move it around on your work space or write on it. Here are a few printable periodic tables for you. Each table prints out perfectly on a single 8-1/2" by 11" or standard printer paper page. Please feel free to download these to your computer, print them, and use them as hand-outs. This color periodic table has circle tiles containing each element's atomic number, symbol, name and atomic weight.

There are a couple of ways you get science projects to glow in the dark. You can use glow-in-the-dark paint, which is phosphorescent and glows anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours. Glowing paint or powder tends not to be very soluble, so it is good for some projects and not others. Tonic water glows very brightly when exposed to black light and is great for edible projects. Fluorescent dye is another option for a bright effect under a black light. You can extract non-toxic fluorescent dye from a highlighter pen to make glowing water : Use a knife to (carefully) cut a highlighter pen in half. It's a pretty simple steak knife and cutting board procedure. Pull out the ink-soaked felt that is inside the pen. Soak the felt in a small quantity of water. I made a video of what to expect. Once you have the dye you can add it to more water to make glowing fountains, grow certain types of glowing crystals, make glowing bubbles, and use it for many other water-bas...

First off, yes, it's fluorine and fluoride and not flourine and flouride . The mis-spelling is common, but the 'u' comes before the 'o'. Fluorine is a chemical element. Its anion, F - , or any of the compounds containing the anion are termed fluorides. When you hear about fluoride in drinking water, it comes from adding a fluorine compound (usually sodium fluoride, sodium fluorosilicate, or fluorosilicic acid) to drinking water, which dissociates to release the F - ion.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to a shrine honoring war criminals has aggravated tensions between Japan and China, prompting one expert to say Beijing is taking a 'smarter approach' to the strained relations between Asia's two biggest economies. Tensions between the world's second and third largest economies have flared up in recent years following a territorial dispute over the East China Sea islands, which disrupted trade between the two nations. More recently, Beijing's introduction of an air defense zone has raised tensions further. ( Read More : China and Japan trading goods and war threats ) Abe's controversial visit to the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo on Boxing Day provoked criticism from China, while the U.S. Embassy said it was "disappointed" with Japan's leadership. "The leadership in China seems smarter on this one and more astute on this and recognizing what is going on more than Abe. Abe seems a l...

December 30 th marks the passing of Robert Boyle. Boyle was an Irish chemist who made a significant contribution away from the alchemical idea of Aristotle's four elements to the atomic model of elements. He argued elements consisted of 'corpuscles' (atoms) instead of the four traditional elements of earth, air, fire and water. He also proposed nature could be broken down and described as a set of simple mathematical laws. He also worked extensively with gases, especially with low pressure or 'rarefied airs' and vacuums. He demonstrated that vacuum can exist in nature, sound cannot travel though it, and animals cannot live without air. These experiments led to Boyle's ideal gas law where a gas at constant temperature will have changes in pressure inversely proportional to changes in volume containing the gas. Boyle was also one of the founding members of the Royal Society that formed from a group of science and mathematically inclined people who...

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