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The Delights of Chemistry

Posted by Hemos on from the ka-FOOM dept.

Dan Ormsby writes: "No news on this site, just great photos of chemical phenomena along with instructions on how to perform them yourself. Don't try this at home!"

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  1. Re:Google's cached site by smunt · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think slashdot should have such a caching service too.

    *NEWS* is almost never in google's cache.

  2. Invitation... by don_carnage · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Ok, is it just me or does the "don't try this at home" statement just make it all the more tempting.

    Not to plug my own site, but we have a really cool "fire in the bottle" how-to video.

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  3. Best chemistry demonstation I've seen by NonSequor · · Score: 3, Interesting
    The best chemistry demonstration I've seen was at the end of the year in AP chemistry. My teacher put magnesium filings in between two slabs of dry ice and lit them. So the magnesium was burning in carbon dioxide rather than oxygen. This produced an *extremely* bright light that lasted quite a while (much longer than magnesium in oxygen any way). After it was done we played with the dry ice (not many people were there since most of the people in the class were seniors and had graduation rehearsal that day).

    I also remember another demonstration in which he blew the lid of a can. I can't remember what he did then though.

    Great teacher, if it weren't for his preparation I wouldn't have been able to get a 5 on the AP Chemistry test.

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  4. Re:Great ways to get kids into science by Paul+the+Bold · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hey, don't knock kitchen science. Burn Teflon®. One of the reaction products is HF, which is deadly in only parts per million. Woo hoo!

    (This is why you shouldn't run coaxial cable through heating ducts. It contains Teflon®. A fire will cause poison gas to be piped throughout the ventilation system. Again, I say, "Woo hoo!")

    Time to get another canary...

  5. the best part f the site. by Roanna · · Score: 2, Interesting


    OK, I skipped all the demos. I enjoyed chemistry but hated the labs. On the bottom of the page is a link to one of the web's most gorgeous periodic tables. Each group of elements is a different rainbow color.


    If you click on each element you see an image of it in nature and get its history. If you click on the chemical information you see its image in pure form.


    There are quicktime movies and Shockwave demos too. This is not the visual periodic table for nthing.



    Roanna

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