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Vimeo: Beautiful Chemistry: Beautiful Reactions: Smoke
We showed 3 different kinds of smoke in this video: the black smoke of candle soot darkening a sheet of transparent glass, the smoke from incense burning, and the ammonium chloride smoke formed when hydrogen chloride gas and ammonia gas...
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Vimeo: Beautiful Chemistry: Beautiful Reactions: Precipitation
This video features five precipitation reactions, each with its own personality. In a typical demonstration of precipitation reactions, we see a transparent solution in a test tube at the beginning and a cloudy liquid at the end after...
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Vimeo: Beautiful Chemistry: Beautiful Reactions: Chemical Garden
This is our take of a popular chemical experiment showing the wonder of chemistry. The reaction occurred when a piece of metal salt was dropped in water glass. The salt began to grow and generate many interesting forms due to the...
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Vimeo: Beautiful Chemistry: Beautiful Reactions: Color Change
The molecules inside some plants giving them vibrant colors can change to other colors under acid and base conditions. What we show here is color change of purple cabbage and a flower named Teornia fournieri in sodium hydroxide and...
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Vimeo: Beautiful Chemistry: Beautiful Reactions: Metal Displacement
We dropped zinc metal in silver nitrate, copper sulfate, and lead nitrate solutions, and recorded the emergence of silver, copper, and lead metals with beautiful structure. To preserve the fragile structure of lead metal, we also added...
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Vimeo: Beautiful Chemistry: Beautiful Reactions: Crystallization
Crystals are beautiful, both externally at the macroscopic level and internally at the atomic level. The same is true for the process of crystallization, which is the formation and growth of crystals. This video shows the crystallization...
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Vimeo: Beautiful Chemistry: Beautiful Reactions: Bubbling
Many chemical reactions generate gases. In solution, gases escape as bubbles. Here we show four bubbling reactions. The last one is the electrolysis of sodium hydroxide (NaOH) aqueous solution. [1:01]
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Vimeo: Beautiful Chemistry: Beautiful Reactions: Dancing Fluorescent Droplets
We mixed the oily chemicals inside fluorescent sticks, then added sodium hydroxide (NaOH) solution to the mixture, which was inspired by Mr. Theodore Gray's Mad Science 2. What we got was something interesting: colorful fluorescent...
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Vimeo: Beautiful Chemistry: Apparatus Used by Joseph Priestley
The video shows the apparatus used by Joseph Priestley for studying the properties of different gases. The visualization is based on the frontispiece of Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air written by Priestley from...