Mar

3

Wired’s Top 10 Amazing Chemistry Videos

March 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Wired presents what they call the Top 10 Amazing Chemistry Videos. Some of the experiments are really spectacular.

Jun

28

1001 things to do with Liquid Nitrogen

June 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment

A site (link removed) that aims to show that liquid nitrogen can be used for much more than just to cool things down to 77 K… (the page can only be found via Google cache)

Jun

21

Chemistry of Photography

June 21, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Now that everything is digital, this post seems meaningless. Or maybe not. You decide. Specially dedicated to those who want to know how to set up a photographic lab at home, here are some interesting sites:
Jack’s Photographic and Chemistry Site
Chemistry of Photography (Cheresources)
CHEM 2502 Chemistry of Photography Laboratory

Jun

17

Chemical Challenges

June 17, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Do you like a good challenge in Chemistry? If you do, you should try Innocentive Challenges – Chemistry. The incentives seem to be very interesting…

Apr

21

Acid-Base Indicators

April 21, 2005 | 1 Comment

Three very useful pages about preparation, pH range and color change of acid-base indicators: Acid Base Indicators, ChemDAT Indicators and Preparation of Acid-Base Indicators.

Apr

19

Pyrotechnics

April 19, 2005 | Leave a Comment

All about the science of fireworks: Pyrotechnics – The art of fire and Dimock’s Pyro Page.

Mar

11

Science Toys

March 11, 2005 | 1 Comment

Learn how to make toys at home with common household materials, often in only a few minutes, that demonstrate fascinating scientific principles. Some examples: a plastic hydrogen bomb (!), building a hydrogen fuel cell, simple heat engines, a film can cannon, a metal that melts in hot water, a Bernoulli levitation ball, the [...]

Feb

8

More Kitchen Chemistry

February 8, 2005 | 2 Comments

Now, something you can try at home: How to Extract DNA from Anything Living. Another interesting experiment is DNA Extraction From Wheat Germ. Also recommended: DNA Extraction Biotechniques Virtual Laboratory.
Thoughts Aside: A kitchen island is an absolute necessity of a modern kitchen today, no matter what part of the world it is in. The question [...]

Feb

1

How Scientists Study Toxic Chemicals

February 1, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Unsolved Mysteries of Human Health: How Scientists Study Toxic Chemicals. Excellent!

Jan

25

Polymers & Liquid Crystals

January 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Polymers & Liquid Crystals is a pilot program, still in development, produced by a cooperative effort between the Department of Physics and the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering at Case Western Reserve University in conjunction with the Center for Advanced Liquid Crystalline Optical Materials (ALCOM) at Kent State University. The site has a very [...]

Jan

23

BOC Gases

January 23, 2005 | Leave a Comment

All the information needed about the gases normally used in the Laboratory: BOC Gases Handbook (PDF) and BOC Safety Data Sheets.

Jan

18

And in a completely different scale…

January 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment

In Huygens Sends Images of Titan, from National Geographic News, one can read: Titan is sitting up there perking away as kind of a planet-scale chemistry lab doing a lot of the stuff that was going on in the Earth’s atmosphere four billion years ago. In the previous post we have a “lab-on-a-chip”, here we [...]

Jan

16

Lab-on-a-chip

January 16, 2005 | Leave a Comment

Imagine an entire chemistry laboratory reduced to the size of a postage stamp. It could happen.

Dec

28

Delicious Chemistry

December 28, 2004 | Leave a Comment

From New York Times today’s edition: Flour, Eggs, Sugar, Chocolate… Just Add Chemistry. And Kitchen Chemistry for Kids Birthday Party.

Dec

28

SeparationsNOW and SpectroscopyNOW

December 28, 2004 | 1 Comment

Are you interested in Electrophoresis, GC (Gas Chromatography), HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography), Ionic Chromatography, Hyphenated Techniques or Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics? Then you should try this extraordinary portal from Wiley: separationsNow.com.
Also from Wiley, already reviewed in Ponto Triplo, and now for the spectroscopy community: spectroscopyNow.com. All about Atomic Spectroscopy, Infrared and Fourier Transform Infrared [...]

Dec

5

Household Products Database

December 5, 2004 | Leave a Comment

Which are the potential hazards of the chemical products we have at home? Information about all kind of common use products – for car, for garden, for home maintenance, for personal care, for pet care, pesticides – can be found in the Household Products Database. It is possible to search or browse by brand or [...]

Nov

30

Extremely Hazardous Substances

November 30, 2004 | Leave a Comment

The title is self-explanatory: Extremely Hazardous Substances, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. At present, the EPA maintains a list of 366 chemicals that are considered extremely hazardous or acutely toxic. For each chemical on the list, EPA provides a profile, containing chemical identity, synonyms, chemical formula, molecular weight, regulatory information, characteristics, health hazard data, [...]

Nov

30

TORVS

November 30, 2004 | Leave a Comment

An excellent compilation of ready-to-use applications: 3D coordinates for chemical structures, calculation and 3D visualization of orbitals, VRML and GIFs of chemical structures, calculation and visualization of IR and Raman spectra, calculation of physicochemical properties and many others.

Nov

10

Nomenclature

November 10, 2004 | Leave a Comment

To dissipate all the doubts on nomenclature, symbols and terminology used in Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, the ideal place is this extraordinary page, designed and maintained by Gerard P. Moss, Senior Lecturer (retired) at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London.

Nov

10

SOLV-DB: All about solvents

November 10, 2004 | Leave a Comment

SOLV-DB is a solvent database from the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences. This database contains all the necessary information to know better the solvents that we work with in the laboratory, namely physical and chemical properties, data on health and security (toxicity, exposure limits, hazard categories, flammability, transportation classifications), regulatory information and environmental fate data [...]