Chemistry Thought Of The Day: Holiday Fun – Snowflakes

DIY: Snowflakes TOOLS: String Wide-mouth mason jar Pipe Cleaners Borax (Look in laundry section of grocery) Pencil / Clothes Pins Water Food Coloring (optional) PROCEDURE: Form pipe cleaners into whatever festive shape you’d like.  Make sure that it will fit into the jar. Tie one end of the string to the pipe cleaner and the […]

Chemistry Thought Of The Day: Holiday Fun – Dry Ice

DIY:  Creepy Fog TOOLS: CO2 fire extinguisher or CO2 canister from a bottling plant (beer / soda distributor) NOTE:  CO2 Fire Extinguishers are explicitly marked.  If it doesn’t say CO2, it won’t work Mesh Cloth (not a solid bag as you need to let the gas escape) Heavy Gloves Tape (optional) PROCEDURE: Put on gloves […]

Chemistry Thought Of The Day: Time-Lapse!!

This is going to be my first post back under my new format, and for the long time followers you’ll notice that I did my best to pull in all of my old posts.  Some of you may be asking, why did I do this.  Here’s my best shot at an explanation: I don’t exactly like […]