Learn how to make flash paper or nitrocellulose. Here are 3 easy ways to make it, with tips on how to store and use it.
Chemistry Projects
This easy two color luminescent reaction displays chemiluminescence in glowing red and then blue. Here's what you do.
Two Color Chemiluminescent Reaction
Do candy chromatography and separate pigments in food colorings and dyes. Here are instructions for both young kids and science students.
Candy Chromatography Science Project
Perform the gallium beating heart experiment using either of two methods. Both are safer than the mercury beating heart.
Gallium Beating Heart Experiment
Make a lemon battery and use it to power an LED or other small electrical device. Learn how the experiment works.
Lemon Battery Experiment
Colored fire spray bottles demonstration the principles of the flame test and emission spectra. Here is how to make and use them safely.
Colored Fire Spray Bottles
Find fun Christmas chemistry projects and experiments, including silver ornaments, crystal snowflakes, fake snow, and colored fire.
Christmas Chemistry Projects and Experiments
Learn how to make copper sulfate, a blue chemical used for growing crystals and other chemistry experiments.
How to Make Copper Sulfate (Copper Sulphate)
Learn how to make sodium silicate from common household ingredients. Sodium silicate is water glass or liquid glass.