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Kitchen Chemistry

Chemistry Activities that use chemicals you can find at the grocery or the hardware store

Table of Contents

I. Properties of Matter

A. Chemical Changes

1. Dancing Spaghetti
2. Combustion
3. Law of Conservation of Mass

B. Physical Changes

4. Chromatography
5. Ziptop Bag Chemistry

II. Properties of Gases

6. Floating Candles
7. Production of Oxygen
8. Production of Hydrogen
9. Production of CO2

III. Micro-Chemistry Reactions

10. Single Replacement Reactions
11. Double Replacement Reactions
12. Gas-Producing Reactions
13. Red, White, and Blue I - Demonstration

 

IV. Properties of Solutions, Suspensions, & Colloids

A. Solutions

14. Rate of Solution - Demonstration
15. Ice Cream

B. Suspensions & Density

16. Oil and Water Don' t Mix
17. Daffy Density
18. Red, White, and Blue II - Demonstration
19. Cartesian Diver

C. Colloids

20. Slime
21. Silly Putty
22. Clear Slime
23. Glurch
24. Cat's Meow

V. Surface Tension

25. Surface Tension of Water
26. Scooting Glue

VI. Acids, Bases, & Indicators

27. Cabbage Juice Indicator
29. The Witches' Potion - Demonstration

VII. Games

30. Chem Bingo
31. Formulas Poker
32. Radioactive Decay of Candium

 

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