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Science Buddies: Can You Change the Rate of a Chemical Reaction?
The ingredients in Alka-Seltzer tablets undergo a chemical reaction that produces carbon dioxide gas as soon as the tablets hit water. Do you think you can cause the tablets to produce gas faster by breaking them into smaller pieces...
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Science Buddies: Make Your Own P H Paper
In this "kitchen chemistry" project about acid/base chemistry, you will measure the acidity or alkalinity of a solution using a logarithmic scale called the pH scale. As you learn about the pH scale, you will have the chance to make your...
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Science Buddies: Measuring the Amount of Acid in Vinegar by Titration
There are many different types of vinegar that you can buy to use around the kitchen for cooking and pickling. The chemical compound that gives vinegar its tart taste and pungent smell is acetic acid. In this experiment you will work to...
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Science Buddies: What Makes Ice Melt Fastest?
If you live in a place that gets cold in the winter, you have most likely seen trucks spreading a mixture of sand and salt on the streets after a snowfall to help de-ice roads. This basic chemistry project gives you clues to discover how...
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Science Buddies: Saturated Solutions: Measuring Solubility
Many essential chemical reactions and natural biochemical processes occur in liquid solutions, so understanding the chemical properties of liquid solutions is fundamentally important. This project will challenge you to discover how much...
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Science Buddies: How Much Baking Powder Do Quick Breads Need?
If you like to bake, this could be a good project for you. There is a purpose for each of the ingredients in your recipes, but not everyone is always aware of what that purpose may be. Though this lab takes multiple days, you will...
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Science Buddies: Can Baking Soda Substitute for Baking Powder in a Recipe?
There's nothing quite like the smell of fresh-baked muffins for breakfast on a Saturday morning. If you're into baking, you might want to try this insightful project that lets you witness the chemistry behind making muffins. You'll get...
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Science Buddies: Bring on the Heat! Investigating Exothermic Reaction Rates
Have you ever pulled a muscle or just been sore after a long day of work or exercise? Hot showers are great, but maybe you've used the more convenient heat packs. Heat packs, which you can buy at grocery or drug stores to soothe aching...
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Science Buddies: Build a 'Breath Spray Bomb' to Study Small Explosion
Hold onto your hats. In this science fair project, you will make a device that sends a film canister across the room with a small chemical explosion. The energy for the explosion is derived from the combustion of ethanol. You will...
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Science Buddies: Paper Chromatography: Basic Version
Many substances are actually mixtures of different things. For example, milk, which looks like it is one substance, is actually a mixture of many different solids and liquids. Chromatography is a technique that is used to separate...
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Science Buddies: How Bright Is Your Glow Stick? Measure It!
Objects that glow in the dark hold a special place in the imagination of both children and adults. The lights go out at night, but these odd things refuse to disappear. Where does the light come from? Do they work in any climate? In this...
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: What Is Chemistry All About?
Covering a range of eight topics related to chemistry, this resource provides a wealth of information complete with pictures, charts, graphs, and examples. Includes information on elements, compounds, atoms, molecules, structures,...
Ohio State University
Betha Chemistry Tutorial
This site resource offers tutorials on the gas laws, balancing chemical equations, and quantum mechanics.
Simon Fraser University
Chem1 Virtual Textbook: The Basics of Energy, Heat, and Work
With an overview of topics related to chemical energetics, this site provides a foundation to a study of thermodynamics and its relation to energy, heat, and work.
Upper Canada District School Board
Tom Stretton's Advanced Placement Chemistry: Ap Exam Review
Use these sample multiple-choice questions to prepare and study for AP exam for Chemistry. A strong emphasis is on writing net ionic equations, knowing the solubility rules, solving equilibrium problems.
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Science Buddies: How Blue Is Your Sports Drink?
Do you read the list of ingredients in foods and drinks before you buy them at the grocery store? If you do, you may have noticed that many of the items that are blue in color have the same dye, called FD&C blue 1. In this chemistry...
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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Winners 2008 1901
A list of the Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine (updated yearly). Click on the names for more information.
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Washington University: P H Buffers in the Blood
This site from the Department of Chemistry at the Washington University is an excellent site on how buffers are used in the human body and how they react to exercise.
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Chemical Reax/exothermic Reactions
A wonderfully complete primer on exothermic reactions in the context of chemical spills. Covers Reactions with Air or Water, Combustible Organics, Polymerization Reax, Decomposition, Corrosion, and much much more.
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Frostburg State University: Organic Chemistry Help
This site is designed to be a supplement for students of organic chemistry. Its tutorials and self-grading tests are interactive and extremely helpful.
Science is Fun
University of Wisconsin: Science Is Fun
Professor Bassam Z. Shahaskin of the University of Wisconsin home provides "science activities, demonstration shows, videos, and books" that aim to make science "fun" for adults and children.
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The Chemistry Laboratory: A Lesson in Safety
A segment on safety in Chemistry that was written by Ira Remsen while he was at John Hopkins University.
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John Hopkins University: Ira Remsen
The page from the Gazette at John Hopkins, provides information about Ira Remsen. A picture of him and a hall named after him are included.
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Math and Science Activity Center: Hydrogen Bonds
A site showing the structures of water and ice and explaining how they are affected by hydrogen bonds. Includes a movie animating hydrogen bond formation and disruption.