Sunday, May 2, 2010

Experiment: Growing Bismuth Crystals

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In this experiment, I'll be growing beautiful iridescent crystals out of pure bismuth metal. These "hopper crystals," as they ...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Experiment: Mercury Beating Heart

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This old post serves as the Video Companion to   this video . This is an extremely cool demonstration of electrochemistry involving one of ...
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Get Useful Components from a Lantern Battery

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Here's a cheap, easy way to get three very useful items for your own experiments - carbon, zinc, and manganese dioxide. All you need is ...
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Experiment: Vanadium Pentoxide Thermite

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Here's a quick one. This thermite was a 2.02:1 mix of V2O5:Al powder. Vanadium pentoxide is a (fairly toxic) orange powder, and it made ...
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Saturday, April 3, 2010

Experiment: Tin Oxide Thermite

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Another thermite composition - 4.19:1 SnO2:Al by weight, with about 25g total thermite. I already had tin samples for my collection, but eve...
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Experiment: Silver Tree

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This old post serves as a video companion to  this video  on my YouTube channel. This is an experiment I've had since the very beginning...
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Experiment: Chemical Color Changer

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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...