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Web Videos Show Off the Wonders of Chemistry

Posted by Zonk on from the it-started-explodey-and-got-explodier dept.

Timmy writes "Wired Science has picked ten of the best videos from YouTube and their own show on PBS to highlight the wonderful things chemistry can do. Only four of them involve fire or explosions. The rest range from music videos about the polymerase chain reaction to reactions that repeatedly change color. One shows how to pour sodium acetate stalagmites. Another shows Chris Hardwick giving instructions for building a glow stick while making absurd comments."

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  1. Other wonders. by palegray.net · · Score: 5, Interesting
    What discussion of the wonders of chemistry would be complete without a mention of these nifty advances in the "better living through chemicals" department:
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  2. Petition by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Dear Slashdot,

    More this and less Microsoft/RIAA/FSF crap.

    Sincerely,

    BadAnalogyGuy