Chemically active!
Subtitle: experiments you can do at home
By: Vicki Cobb ; illustrated by Theo Cobb
Contributors: Cobb, Theo, illustrator
Edition: Edition, 2015
Publisher: Avyx Inc.
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Littleton, Colorado
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9781935570288
Subjects: Chemistry; Juvenile literature; Experiments
Other titles: Experiments you can do at home
Description: "Gives instructions for performing a variety of experiments, using easily available materials, that illustrate some basic principles of chemistry." -- Title page verso
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: A word, before you begin; title: Mysterious concoctions. Essence of cabbage - Extract of soda pop; title: What's the matter with matter? Preparing iron sulfate solution - About solutions - Distillation - Crystallization - Rock candy sugar crystals - Crystals on grass - Fast 'frozen' crystals - Other crystals to grow; title: Magical matter transformations, also known as chemical reactions. Energy is given off - some additional comments - A gas is a product - A precipitate forms - Iron test - There is a color change; title: Common matter. Splitting water - "Burning" steel - Carbon - Nitrogen - Chlorine; title: Electrical solutions. Electrolyte current detector - How to make a galvanometer - How the galvanometer works - Acids and bases - Electrolytes and the structure of atoms - Electrical silver polish - Electroplating; title: The language of chemists. Organizing the elements - The structure of the atom - Chemical bonds - Symbols, formulas, and equations - Reading the periodic table; title: The chemist detective. The flame test - Chromatography - Test for sugar - Test for starch - Test for vitamin C - Photochemistry - How to make a photographic wet plate - Photosynthesis in a leaf - Testing fibers; title: Chemistry magic tricks. The water-to-wine-to-water gambit - Blush test - Blue again....and again - A clear shake - Thought waves for milk - A final word; title: Index.