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Chemistry Experiments

The following is a collection of chemistry experiments that we've either come up with or collected over the years. All are tested and known to work. We generally have all the chemicals & supplies necessary to perform the experiments below. If a case exists where we do not stock a required chemical or piece of labware, other sources will be cited in the experiment text.
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WARNING
The chemistry experiments below are intended for those educated chemistry and who already posses a basic working knowledge of standard laboratory safety procedures.
Even something as simple as boiling water in a flask can potentially explode and cause blindness or burns.  As other potentially dangerous chemicals are included, any experiment has the possibility of causing injury in one way or another.
If you choose to perform any of the experiments on this website, you must proceed at your own risk and take responsibilities for your own actions. We cannot accept responsibility for accidents arising from the use or abuse of this information. Although we have taken great care to make sure the information contained here is accurate, there always exists the possibility that there is a missed error somewhere that could result in unexpected consequences.
As always, basic safety equipment (gloves, eye protection, etc.) is called for.

Please note that this section is actively under construction.
The only experiments & tutorials that are
currently functioning will be in bold red type.
Completed experiments will have a step-by-step procedure fully illustrated with images for each step.
Experiments that we're still working on may only have a text description until
we get the time to recreate the experiment and photograph each step.

CHEMISTRY EXPERIMENTS

MATERIALS
REQUIRED
Chemical Light: the eerie glow of Luminol A fascinating demonstration of chemiluminescence - the production of light by chemical reaction. When the chemical Luminol is oxidized in the presence of a catalyst, it produces a bright, eerie blue glow...

Sodium Hydroxide,
Luminol,
Hydrogen Peroxide, 
Sodium Ferrocyanide
Mysterious Sodium Acetate Solutions of Sodium Acetate can  instantly turn solid and become liquid again. This unusual chemical is what Hand Warmers are made from and is fascinating to experiment with...

Sodium Acetate

Make a SuperBall The familiar high bouncing & colorful Superballs are actually Silicate based polymers that can be easily made by mixing two liquids together to form a solid  with amazing elastic properties...

Sodium Silicate and either Ethyl alcohol or Phenolphthalein
Instant Cold! Mix just a small amount of water with one chemical, and the temperature immediately drops to near freezing! Make your own instant Ice Packs.
 An easy and surprising experiment...

Ammonium Nitrate
Making Nitrous Oxide Nitrous Oxide (also known as Laughing Gas) is an oxidizer used in rocket fuels and to boost the power of race cars. You can make some and demonstrate its power as an oxidizer in this experiment.

Ammonium Nitrate
Silver Tree Using a clean piece of Copper wire, water, and a glass container, make a pure Silver tree by extracting the Silver metal from a Silver Nitrate solution...

Silver Nitrate
Exploding Balloon This self-inflating balloon explodes when held over a lit candle. A classic  attention grabbing classroom demonstration...

Calcium Carbide
Make Pure Sand Very few places on Earth will one find pure, white Sand. It is easily made in the home laboratory with two common chemicals...

Sodium Silicate
 Sodium Bisulfate
The Amazing Chemical Garden Various chemical crystals dropped into a clear solution quickly grow over a period of about 1/2 hour to produce a stunning and colorful landscape. A variety of different chemicals can be used as 'seeds'.

Sodium Silicate & small amounts of various other chemicals. See Text.
Bismuth Crystals Make stunning, multicolor Bismuth crystals from the molten metal. Bismuth melts at a fairly low temperature so this can be done using the kitchen stove as a heat source. 

Bismuth metal
Negative X: Start a Fire With Water A very popular chemistry demo. This combination of chemicals produces a highly water sensitive mixture that instantly ignites when a drop of water lands on it.

Ammonium Nitrate,
Ammonium Chloride,
 Zinc Dust
Uranium Extraction from Ore Using the Alkaline Extraction method, remove the Uranium from Carnotite Uranium ore to produce Uranyl Tricarbonate. Part 1 of 2 experiments.

Sodium Carbonate,
Sodium Bicarbonate,
 Uranium Ore
Make Light Sensitive Silver Chloride Paper Similar to the way photographic paper works, this experiment will produce a small coated sheet of paper that changes color on exposure to light.

Silver Nitrate
Underwater Exploding Bubbles A great chemistry demo showing the reaction between Acetylene and Chlorine. As the bubbles of the two gasses collide, a tiny explosion & flash of light is produced underwater. 

Calcium Carbide,
Clorox bleach
Smoke Bombs Light a tiny piece of this solid mixture (about the size of your thumb), and it makes a giant cloud of smoke in seconds! Very popular as a smoke screen with our customers that are into Paintball tournaments.

Potassium Nitrate, Sugar, Safety Fuse