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Guacamole, Death by Chocolate Cookies, Scones and Tea ... I can't wait to try some of the recipes, I mean experiments, in the Kitchen Ch...

Lesson: Copper plus oxygen creates copper oxide (2Cu+O 2 -->2CuO ) What Happened: Changing the chemistry of pennies and n...

We had a lovely visit to the Molecules that Matter exhibit at Skidmore College's Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs this week. Ginger Ert...

Lesson: Fire produces CO2 What Happened: Hydrocarbon + oxygen = carbon dioxide + water + heat According to The Joy of Chemistry: The Amazi...

We will be visiting the Tang Museum's Molecules That Matter exhibit this week for the second time. This week's program will focus on...

Lesson: Iron can take the form of two different ions in redox reactions What Happened: Fe 2+ + H 2 O 2 → Fe 3+ + H 2 O + O 2 Ferrous ...

While we're waiting for the lemon battery do-over (and possibly other redox experiments), I thought I'd take another look at what th...