The Home Scientist

A video of this reaction can be seen here . This experiment is a simple way of making a solution that changes color on its own through pur...

This old post serves as the Video Companion to   this video . This reaction was done some time before the video was shot, so some conditions...

Thermite is most commonly made with red iron oxide (hematite, or common rust), but I went with black iron oxide (magnetite) because it shoul...

This old post serves as the Video Companion to   this video . For this experiment, I used manganese dioxide and a much finer aluminum powde...

One of the first experiments I did at my home lab, and the type I've done most often, is the thermite reaction. This is the exothermic r...

Welcome to The Home Scientist! I created this blog to document and share my scientific experiments with anyone that cares to read about th...