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November's Most Popular Articles...
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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… [188 views in Nov]
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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… [102 views in Nov]
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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… [70 views in Nov]
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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… [50 views in Nov]
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Seeds: Wet and Dry: Plants grown from seeds, from the smallest (an orchid, at 85 micrometers long) to the largest (the Coco de Mer palm, at about 30 cm long). Seeds are amazing things –… [46 views in Nov]
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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… [44 views in Nov]
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Latest Comments
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Mosey Cook
Re: Make Yoghurt and Grow Yeast
This article on natural yeast and good bacteria has been the best read I’ve read on the Internet
1 November 2019 -
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
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