The Science Of Slipperiness
Adults Chemistry
We've all had an experience where soap has made a wet thing slippery, but...why?
Why Super Glue Is Perfect For Gluing Skin
Adults Chemistry
Why does superglue always stick to your hands and never what you want it to?
The Science Of Slipperiness
Adults Chemistry
We've all had an experience where soap has made a wet thing slippery, but...why?
At-Home Lab: Making Bread
Youth Chemistry
Learn a little about at-home chemistry in the kitchen.
How do bulletproof vests work? - Max G. Levy
Adults Chemistry
Explore the chemistry behind what makes kevlar so strong, and how this essential synthetic fiber was invented.
FALLOUT's Critical Chemical is REAL
Adults Chemistry
RadAway is arguably the most important chemical in the whole FALLOUT universe. But can you really remove radiation like you do in the games?
Why Does Everything Decay Into Lead
Adults Chemistry
If you look at a copy of the periodic table, you might notice that basically every element after lead is labelled as radioactive.
Why Don't Oil And Water Mix?
Youth Chemistry
Join recipe tester Adelina as she uncovers the scientific secret to making water and oil mix.
Flame Rainbow
Youth Chemistry
The rainbow flame chemistry demonstration, is one of the most colourful displays of chemistry known to humankind.
How We Learned That Water Isn't An Element
Adults Chemistry
For thousands of years, water was thought to be an element. That is, until some of the greatest chemists in the world managed to crack it open.
The Nucleus
Adults Chemistry
Hank does his best to convince us that chemistry is not torture, but is instead the amazing and beautiful science of stuff.
Why Water Dissolves (Almost) Everything
Adults Chemistry
Water can dissolve more substances than anything else on earth...so why doesn't it dissolve everything away?
Ladder to the Stars | Cosmos: Possible Worlds
Adults Chemistry
See the first laboratory on Earth - Blombos Cave. Here our ancestors conducted the first chemistry experiments.
Most Deadly Elements On Earth
Adults Chemistry
You've all studied the periodic table in school, but we are sure you're teachers never talked about elements like this!
What is entropy? - Jeff Phillips
Adults Chemistry
There's a concept that's crucial to chemistry and physics. It helps explain why physical processes go one way and not the other: why ice melts, why cream spreads in coffee, why air leaks out of a punctured tire. It's entropy, and it's notoriously difficult to wrap our heads around. Jeff Phillips gives a crash course on entropy.
Why is glass transparent?
Adults Chemistry
If you look through your glasses, binoculars or a window, you see the world on the other side. How is it that something so solid can be so invisible? Mark Miodownik melts the scientific secret behind amorphous solids.
The chemistry of cookies
Adults Chemistry
You stick cookie dough into an oven, and magically, you get a plate of warm, gooey cookies. Except it's not magic; it's science. Stephanie Warren explains via basic chemistry principles how the dough spreads out, at what temperature we can kill salmonella, and why that intoxicating smell wafting from your oven indicates that the cookies are ready for eating.
What's In A Candle Flame?
Adults Chemistry
Is a flame really a plasma? Well it depends on your definition of plasma, but there are certainly ions in a flame, formed as molecules collide with each other at high speed, sometimes knocking electrons off of their atoms.
Sulfur Hexafluoride Gas
Adults Chemistry
A model boat floating on sulfur hexafluoride (gas significantly denser than air) at the Physikshow of the University of Bonn!
Incredible Chemical Reaction!
Adults Chemistry
This is a classic chemical reaction. It's called the iodine clock reaction. There are several variations of how this chemical reaction can be performed using different chemicals than the ones I used in the video. You can order clock reaction kits from several science related websites. You can also use simple store bought chemicals like vitamin C, iodine, hydrogen peroxide and starch. A quick internet search will turn up multiple ways of performing the experiment.
How do they do artificial diamonds?
Adults Chemistry
Gemesis diamonds are mostly yellow due to the Nitrogen in the atmosphere getting inside the crystal during the growing process. Apollo diamonds can be created in all colors including colorless depending on how much impurity is introduced in the growing chamber. e.g. add boron to make blue diamonds.