Peterson, Cooper 2012/2013

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Title Brain Booster to Go? (The Not so Simple Life of Filters, Feb. 2008)
Summary Coffee contains more than 800 different chemicals. Learn about the latest research on the health effects of some of these chemicals. Keywords Extraction, Solution Concentration, Filtration (separation method) Chemistry Demonstration Make coffee and explain what is in the solution and how it gets there. Can you determine the concentration of caffeine in your coffee? Do the temperature of water, the way you grind it, the type of filter, and the amount of grinds affect the concentration? How Dense Is It? hydrometer activity Can you measure the amount of sugar in an energy drink using a hydrometer? How Dense Is It? hydrometer activity

Are Energy Drinks Good for You?

Energy drinks are the latest beverage fad. Learn about themain chemicals present in them and what scientists know about their health effects. A basic knowledge of gas behavior gives scuba divers a better understanding of what happens during a dive. Pop the cap off a bottle of a soft drink and bubbles rush out. How did they get in there? How do they come out? Although vital for keeping engines healthy, antifreeze is a serious threat to animals and humans. You may be surprised to find out how much chemistry is involved in such a popular sport. Keep your head down! The hazards of plane dicing are discussed both from the perspective of environmental as well as the human impact. Have you read any good laundry detergents boxes lately? Theyre interesting when the code words makes sense. Put your best epidermis forward.

Solution, Concentration, Hydrometer

Gas Laws & Scuba Diving, Feb 83

Solution, Solubility, Temperature, Pressure, Henrys Law, Volume, Concentration Solution, Solubility, Temperature, Pressure, Henrys Law, Volume, Concentration Freezing point depression, colligative properties, solution, solute, solvent, concentration, molality Hydrogen bonding, Polarity, density, vapor pressure, solubility, Boyles Law Freezing point depression, colligative properties, solution, solute, solvent, concentration, molality Surfactant, anion, cation, emulsion, polar, nonpolar, hydrophobic, hydrophilic, hard water, phosphates, pH, alkalinity, Evaporation, humectants, emollient, polar, nonpolar, hydrophilic, hydrophobic, surfactant, Le Chatelier, alkaline Polar, solubility, solution, solute, nonpolar, density, temperature.

Something with soda. Can you pump CO2 (dry ice) into a tube filled with red liquid?

Whats That Fizz?, Feb 84

Something with soda cans.

Antifreeze Antidote, October 1996 Paintball Chemistry Hits Its Mark, April 2007 Weighting in the Wings, December 1997 Detergents, Apr 85

Can you make your own antifreeze?

Bring in some paintballs. Demonstrate what happens when you put them in water.

Can you make your own antifreeze?

Skin Deep, Dec 87

Lava Lamps: A Chemical Juggling Act, April 1997

What makes those waxy blobs pulsate through the glowing bottle?

Make your own lava lamp

Peterson, Cooper 2012/2013 Dissolving Household Chores, December 1997

Having a serious mildew problem in your shower? Discover the nitty gritty chemistry behind the new product called Clean Shower. The football team is counting on your next pass, but your hand is in pain. The coach is grabbing a bad ammonium nitrate. A knowledge of acid-base chemistry can help you maintain a clean and healthy swimming pool this summer. They might help you see fine print, but its what you cant see on the lenses that you must guard against. Wood fibers can be used and reused indefinitely, but it takes surfactants, bleaches and other chemicals to make them look like new. Make it your own paint Its better than Tom Sawyers. A tattoo artist use a variety of color pigments to create intricate works of body art. But remember, this body art is for keeps. Find out the facts and think before you ink. From the smallest fishbowl to the biggest public aquarium display, keeping fish healthy takes patients, careful monitoring, and a good knowledge of chemistry. Youd like to kiss your date but your bad breath Did your toothpaste make it fresh? Solvent, solution, solute, solubility, polar, nonpolar, micelles, surfactant, hyprophobic, hyropholic, precipitation, surface tension. Heat of solution, endothermic, exothermic, phase change, reaction, oxidation. Show how the warmth of your hands turns clean shower cloudy. Make your own nonsoapy, safe cleaner that acts as a surfactant.

Hot & Cold Packs, Feb 87

Make a home-made heat pack (experimenters notebook)

Swimming Pools, Apr. 1994 (Swimming Pool Chemistry, Apr. 1983)

Is that contact lens really clean?, Apr. 1991 Old News, New Paper, Apr. 1993 (Ink, Feb. 1993)

Ppm, filtration, oxidation, pH, equilibrium, reversible reactions, Le Chateliers principle, acid, base, concentration, alkalinity, hardness Detergent, surface tension, viscosity, solubility, oxidation, concentration, buffers, pH, isotonic, neutral Suspension, surfactants, micelles, hydrophobic, hydrophilic, polar

Acid-Base Indicators Experimenters Corner activity, How to measure the pH of your pool and what it means.

Focus on saline solution.

An Iron-Clad Recipe for Ancient Ink

Paintmaking, Dec 84 (Ink, Feb. 1993) Tattoo Chemistry Goes Skin Deep, Oct. 2001 (Ink, Feb. 1993)

Film former, solvent, double replacement reaction Dispersion, pH, dissolve, evaporation, absorption, solution, hydrophobic, solvent, surface tension

Making Prussian Blue Paint

An Iron-Clad Recipe for Ancient Ink

Aquarium Chemistry: Life in the Balance, Feb. 2002, (The Not so Simple Life of Filters, Feb. 2008)

Toothpaste, Feb 86

Antacids, Apr. 1983

Antacids are often helpful in neutralizing excess stomach acid and making life a bit less painful.

pH, salinity, concentration, dissolve, solubility, ammonia, polyatomic ions, temperature, dissolved gases, nitrate, solubility of gases, neutralization, hydrometer, refractometer, density, specific gravity, ppt, ppb Solubility, dissolve, solution, acid, base, concentration, pH, detergent, surface tension, solvent, humectants, binder acid, base, neutralization, pH , concentration, polyatomic ions

Make a fishtank, Monitor and measure the pH levels, dissolved particles. How Dense Is It? hydrometer activity

pH & Hair Shampoo,

Knowing the effects of acids and bases on hair

pH, polar, nonpolar, solvent, solubility,

Good demos in reading. How much acid can this tablet neutralize? How about an expired tablet? Use with red cabbage indicator. Determine the amount of active ingredients. Test pH of shampoos, however this needs a demo that in some

Peterson, Cooper 2012/2013 Apr 83 Acid Rain, Apr 83 (Calculating Chemistry, Apr 83) Wastewater, Apr. 1992. (The Not so Simple Life of Filters, Feb. 2008)
will help you b ecome a more intelligent shampoo consumer. A glimpse at an invisible problem what is known and what is still uncertain about acid rain. Yesterdays bathwater is todays crystal clear drinking water, thanks to the chemists at the wastewater treatment plant. dispersion, alkaline, hydrogen bonds, acid, base Acid, base, solubility way explains what pH is.

Good questions in story. Focus on effect on materials.

Filtration, oxidation, solution, solubility of chlorine gas in water, pH, concentration, coagulation, precipitation, Henrys law,

Demo oxidation, filtration, pH monitoring and explain why it is important to the process of wastewater treatment.