Category Archives: Chemistry
Screaming Jellybaby
There are loads of these on the internet.
In this one, a bunch of halfwits fire bits of the reaction all over the show.
Dehydration of Sugar – and scores of other Chemistry videos
This YouTube clip has been taken from the very comprehensive collection of chemistry videos available at Prentice Hall’s “General Chemistry: Principles and Modern Approaches” instructor resource library. Free to view, well organised and all clips are Quicktime (So can be saved by right-clicking on the link on the menu page).
This is from Section 14: Solutions and their Chemical Properties.
The Why’s Guy – a great resource of Chemistry and Physics clips
This one’s been a team effort, so thanks. Specko from the TES Boards pointed me in the direction of this site, which is an archive of clips from a show called the Morning Show in the States. Each week, Mats Selens does an experiment or two and explains what’s going on. Nice, short, simple, well-explained – just the way we like it. I contacted Mats (the one with the beard) and he gave me permission to put a clip on this blog, so please go and investigate his site. For each episode, you can download a .wmv file which is of much better quality than these YouTube compressions.
In these two sample clips, Mats is explaining electrolysis of water and discussing the use of fuel cells and hydrogen as a power source.
Part two after the jump.
2000 Views and a Brainiac post
Thanks for the support so far – this blog’s only been going six weeks and it feels like it’s coming along nicely.
Love ’em or loathe ’em, Brainiac is a decent way to engage the telly-addicted, so I thought I’d put up one of their clips. Here is the Brainiac way of doing the thermite reaction:
Mybusters: Diet Coke and Mentos
I like Mythbusters – especially when some helpful soul cuts the experiments together into single clips, rather than having to flick through a whole episode. Thanks to dannynic from the TES Boards for this link.
I’ll get some more Mythbusters and Brainiac clips up soon – snowed under with student-led conferences at the moment.
Some cool blood biochemistry
This video is almost too cool:
oxidation of blood by hydrogen peroxide
Comes from ETH Experiments online (Zurich), link courtesy if bogstandardcomp from the TES Science boards.
To watch, you need to download the RealVideo file (small file)
PhET Simulations
PhET have some good simulations on their website (Physics and Chem):
Well worth trawling through to find some good ideas (like this skate-ramp) for the SMART board.
EDIT: this site’s helpfulness rating is boosted by the ‘run offline’ button next to each sim – they actually want us to download these and use them for free. Rock on. Needs Java.
i-Biology 