Everyday Chemistry
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Does Distilled Water Conduct Electricity?
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Megan Jungwi
Most people are familiar with wires and metals conducting electricity. However water too can help electricity travel. more...
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Jennifer Graham
Reactions with hydrogen peroxide reagents have some beneficial applications. Low concentrations are useful for cosmetics, disinfection, forensics and other purposes. more...
Telling the Difference Between Gemstones
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Megan Jungwi
Most people rely on color to identify a gemstone, however this is not a reliable method. Rather, science has developed a number of ways to identify gems. more...
By:
Megan Jungwi
Shampoo's main purpose is to clean hair. Here's how shampoo does it. more...
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Megan Jungwi
There's a perfectly good explanation for why oil and water do not mix. It all comes down to chemistry. more...
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Simon Davies
The story of expanded polystyrene, a material that is used for packaging but also in CD cases and plastic model kits. more...
Everyday Chemistry Investigation Projects
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Simon Davies
Ideas for conducting a scientific investigation of the chemistry of everyday objects and activities which could be used for a High School project. more...
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Martin Bell
Digital Versatile Disks (DVD) and Compact Disks (CD) are widely used storage devices. The recordable type use Phase Change Materials to store data. more...
Why Does Red Cabbage Change Color When Cooked?
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Stephanie Jolly
Red cabbage juice contains anthocyanin pigments that change color when mixed with alkaline or acidic ingredients and is used in chemistry experiments as a pH indicator. more...
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Albert Burchsted
The molecular nature of water causes molecules to attract and repel each other and to form links between them. These features affect water's functional properties. more...
Properties and Uses of Sodium Bicarbonate
This bicarbonate is known under a variety of names including baking soda. It is cheap, versatile and useful around the home, kitchen, for the body and medicinal purposes. more...
Silicon - Applications of the Ubiquitous Element
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Anthony Toole
The advanced implements of the Stone Age were the flint axe and arrowhead. Later came the pottery and ceramics of the first settled societies. more...
Zinc, Wide Usage of a Modest Metal
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Anthony Toole
The dull, silvery-grey of zinc metal and the white of its compounds are in marked contrast to its importance. more...
Water The Greenhouse Gas in a Glass
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Andy Allison
The Earth's atmosphere contains countless, incredibly small, particles of water or H2O, the best known molecule on the planet and an important greenhouse gas. more...
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