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Why Oil and Water Don't Mix: Oil and water don’t mix – they are described as ‘immiscible’. Crude oil floats on the sea after a spill from a tanker. Motor oil shows up as a sheen on… [780 views in Aug]
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Soft and Hard Water: Making More Bubbles: Different parts of the country have soft or hard water. Hard water is water that has travelled through certain types of rock, including… [172 views in Aug]
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Keeping Warm or Cold: Insulation and Conduction: Heat travels through solids by conduction (see also ‘Detecting Fake Silver: Conductivity of Metal’). Insulation can keep things… [162 views in Aug]
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Soap and Detergent Chemistry: Soap is made from animal fats and vegetable oils, mixed with a caustic chemical called sodium hydroxide (also known as lye). The sodium hydroxide reacts… [140 views in Aug]
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Do Plants Breathe?: Do plants breathe? Yes and no… Breathing and respiring are two different things. Mammals, including humans, breathe by using muscles to pull air into the lungs and… [136 views in Aug]
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Growing Plants Without Soil: Growing plants without soil is known as hydroponics. Plants can be grown in many different growing mediums, such as, gravel, sand, perlite, vermiculite,… [124 views in Aug]
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Latest Comments
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Tee
Re: Vibrations: Seeing and Feeling Sound
I have just witnessed a fork vibrating so fast on its own on the kitchen top. It made a sound while vibrating as if the…
24 August 2019 -
simran panaich
Re: Soap and Detergent Chemistry
thnx!! It helped me a lot !!! THank YOu so much
6 June 2019 -
Mar2
Re: Why Oil and Water Don't Mix
I am doing this as a demo for homogeneous mixture examples. It really helps, it is interesting, and thank you so much for it!!!
5 June 2019 -
COOL STUDENT
Re: Why Oil and Water Don't Mix
Why does the food coloring mix with the water i did not quite get iy
31 May 2019 -
EMILY BAKER
Re: Looking at Soil Profiles
This thing is stupid. I am a doctor and I know better then you do! I will do something about this website if you don’t change the…
25 May 2019 -
Alice Picello
Re: Looking at Soil Profiles
THIS DIDN’T TEACH ME ANYTHING ON SOIL PROFILES
25 May 2019 -
Rea
Re: Making an Emulsion
I have always wondered about the Earth. My teacher gave us this website to read about why water and oil don't mix. I started looking around on…
16 May 2019 -
Candytashy
Re: Looking at Soil Profiles
Thanks so much for this post .it really helped me .made my homework much easier and l have learnt a lot from this post
25 March 2019 -
Rajput
Re: Pulling and Pushing: Magnetic Attraction
Kya kisi chemical ko copper me mix karne se iron or steel ko push kiya ja sakte hai. Yadi ho to formula batye.
25 March 2019 -
AT LIFE
Re: Soap and Detergent Chemistry
Thanks you so much because you help different students especially science who went be a perfect a part of chemistry
22 March 2019
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