Web Site of the Week

Each week, we highlight a Web site that we think may be helpful in some way to teachers. The highlighted sites are not part of or connected with Science News for Kids, Science News, or Science Service. We are not responsible for their content.

May 12, 2004

Chem Demos

They may not be as dramatic as the real thing, but online video and descriptions of lecture demonstrations involving combustion and other chemical and physical effects still fascinate. The Chemistry Learning Center at the University of Illinois offers tantalizing glimpses of methanol combustion, electrolysis of water, hydrogen ignition, the effect of liquid nitrogen on a rose, an ammonium dichromate volcano, and more.

Go to: www.chem.uiuc.edu/clcwebsite/demos.html.

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