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See our Fall 2026 ChemEd X Talks line up and join us on the 2nd Tuesday of each month @ 7pm (Eastern).

Turn your chemistry lab into a space for authentic investigation! Explore how alginate hydrogels can move students beyond following a procedure and into designing experiments, asking their own questions, and making sense of their results—all while connecting chemistry to real-world biomedical applications.

This experiment started with a deer skull discovered on a walk in the woods and turned into a fascinating journey through acid-base chemistry, stoichiometry, precipitation reactions, and the real composition of teeth. By dissolving a tooth and recovering its calcium as calcium carbonate, the experiment reveals that teeth are far more chemically complex than they appear.

ChemIllusion.com is a molecule drawing platform for students, teachers, and chemists who want to create, understand, and communicate molecular ideas more clearly.

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Instructions for how to adapt three common games to be chemistry specific.