FuseSchool
Making Hard Water Soft
Learn the basics about making hard water turn into soft water. What are the methods and techniques used to make that happen? Find out more in this video!
FuseSchool
Learn How To Turn Hard Water Into Soft Water
If we want to use soap with water, it should ideally be with soft water. This video explains how Hard Water can be turned into Soft Water.
Professor Dave Explains
Mineral Cleavage and Hardness
Cleavage and hardness are two macroscopic characteristics that geologists use to identify and classify minerals. How are these characteristics measured? What do they tell us about the properties of a mineral? Macroscopic Characteristics...
Rock 'N Learn
Earth Science : Mohs Hardness Scale
Earth Science for Kids is the fun way to learn important facts about earth science and prepare for tests. Take a fascinating journey to the Super Science Station to learn about the Mohs hardness scale.
Science360
Synthetic Diamonds - Science of Innovation
A new method for creating "synthetic diamonds" that not only creates larger diamonds, but also manipulates their toughness, hardness and color. Potential uses include cutting tools, electronics or optical materials.
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Visual Learning Systems
Minerals: Summing Up
Upon viewing the Minerals video series, students will be able to do the following: Define minerals as naturally occurring solids that have a definite chemical makeup and crystal shape. Explain that a crystal is made of particles that...
Visual Learning Systems
Minerals and Their Properties: Properties of Minerals
This video explains the formation and identification of minerals. Major mineral groups, basic crystal systems, the physical properties of minerals, and everyday uses of minerals are discussed. Other terminology includes: inorganic,...
Visual Learning Systems
Minerals: Identifying Minerals
Upon viewing the Minerals video series, students will be able to do the following: Define minerals as naturally occurring solids that have a definite chemical makeup and crystal shape. Explain that a crystal is made of particles that...
Wonderscape
Science Kids: Rocks, Minerals and Geology
This video is about rocks and minerals. It explains the importance of minerals and rocks in our everyday lives and how they are found in various materials and products. It also discusses the characteristics of minerals. It goes on to...
Crash Course
Reaching Breaking Point: Materials, Stresses, and Toughness: Crash Course Engineering #18
Don't let materials science break you. An informative video explains the mechanical properties of materials. It uses a stress-strain diagram to discuss elasticity, hardness, toughness, creep strength, and fatigue strength. It also...
Fuse School
Making Hard Water Soft
We need softened water to easily clean our homes, our clothes, and our bodies ... but how do you soften hard water? Part six of a 7-video series exploring the world's water resources and issues shows the two most common methods of...
Fuse School
Hard and Soft Water
What does it mean to have hard or soft water? Learners discover the chemistry behind water hardness in the fifth video of a seven-part series describing our water resources. Using simple animations and balanced chemical equations, young...
Fuse School
Uses of Limestone - Cement, Mortar, and Concrete
This rock is on a roll! Introduce young geologists and environmentalists to the many uses of limestone using the fifth installment in a series of seven. Illustrate the components and properties of cement, mortar, and concrete,...
Crash Course Kids
The Science of Lunch
Extend your class's observation skills with a video about additional properties of matter. The video covers the ways an item can be altered, including its hardness, malleability, conductivity, and magnetism as...
Crash Course
Crash Course Kids 15.2: The Science of Lunch
Even an empty lunch sack is useful to science. You can examine it and come up with some traits. In this episode, Sabrina chats about things like malleability, hardness, conductivity, and magnetism. And all with lunch!