Chemical Mystery #17: Bubble Buster!
If you know your chemistry, you can figure out how the bubbles get busted!
If you know your chemistry, you can figure out how the bubbles get busted!
Are you looking for a way to incorporate gaming in your chemistry classroom? CollisionsTM has recently announced that their online gaming system is now free for educators!
The solution to "Chemical Mystery #16: A Red, White, and Blue Chemistry Trick for You!" is presented. How this experiment can be used as a springboard to carry out a simple quantitative analysis of salt solubility is also discussed.
Watch this video and see if you can figure out how red, white, and blue colors can all be made from the same chemical solution!
The solution to Chemical Mystery #15: The Leaky Cup is shown here.
Time for a new chemical mystery! Watch the video below and see if you can use your chemical knowledge to figure out how this experiment is done.
Erica Jacobsen shares highlights from the April 2019 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education.
Did you figure out how the experiment in Chemical Mystery #14 was performed? The solution is presented here!
If you are looking to go beyond using traditional, arguably misleading, definitions of entropy involving “disorder” and “messy bedroom” analogies, the Boltzmann Bucks game fits the bill. The game, pulled from a Journal of Chemical Education article, provides a wonderful opportunity for students to more accurately conceptualize entropy.
I am already planning for my trip to Illinois in July to attend ChemEd 2019! Let me tell you why I want to attend.