Copper plate a keepsake holiday ornament or other metal object. Copper plating is a fun and beautiful example of redox chemistry!
Yearly Archives: 2015
Here are some useful physical constants, conversion factors, and unit prefixes. They are used in many calculations in chemistry, as well as in physics and other sciences. Useful Constants Acceleration of Gravity 9.806 m/s2 Avogadro’s Number 6.022 x 1023 Electronic Charge 1.602 x 10-19 C Faraday Constant 9.6485 x 104 […]
Physical Constants, Prefixes, and Conversion Factors
Here’s a simple slime recipe that’s perfect for the winter holidays! This peppermint slime smells like candy canes. You can color it green or red or even combine clear and white batches to get a candy appearance. It won’t taste like candy canes, but it’s not toxic (just in case […]
How to Make Peppermint Slime
November 22 marks the passing of Hans Adolf Krebs. Krebs was a German chemist who was awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of the citric acid cycle or the Krebs cycle. The Krebs cycle is a series of chemical reactions that take place in cells where […]
November 22 in Science History – Hans Adolf Krebs and ...
There are so many science kits for kids on the market, it’s hard to separate the ones that are educational and fun from the ones that are duds. Here are my picks for the top science kits on the market for 2016. I’ve added links so you can compare prices […]
Top Science Kits for Kids
November 21 is Hieronymus Theodor Richter’s birthday. Richter was a German chemist who discovered the element indium with Ferdinand Reich. They discovered the element using the relatively new technique of spectroscopy. When a substance is heated, the light it emits can be passed through a prism to separate individual bands […]
November 21 in Science History – The Discovery of Indium
Can you identify the elements based on how they look? Here’s a printable multiple choice quiz you can take to test yourself. The photos are of the elements in their pure form. The picture may contain additional clues about an element’s identity. Element Picture Quiz – Question #1 This one […]
Printable Element Picture Quiz
November 20 is Karl von Frisch’s birthday. Frisch was an Austrian zoologist who received a third of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discoveries involving bees. Frisch’s first discovery was bees have color vision. He proved this by feeding bees drops of sugar water placed on a blue card. […]
November 20 in Science History – Karl von Frisch and ...
You may think shopping and science have little to do with each other, but there is actually quite a lot of science behind store lay-outs, product packaging, advertising, etc. Here are some shopping science fair project ideas you could use as the basis for an experiment: Shopping Science Fair Projects […]