Simple Chemistry Experiments With Everyday Materials

by Louis V. Loeschnig

Take some jars, frozen-food trays, plastic cups and spoons, salt, water, sugar, vinegar, and baking soda, and you have the basis for a chemistry lab. Make up a batch of sweet maple sugar candy or mouth-puckering pickles to demonstrate chemical changes in sugar and salt. With dozens of exciting experiments to work on in this book, using materials found around the house, you'll become a chemistry whiz in no time.

128 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1994

Reviews

[Lexie M · Rating 2 out of 5]

There is science everywhere. The whole earth is running with science, whether it's complicated or simple. Everyone and everything runs on science. We all need oxygen to breath, which comes from plants. And plants come from the ground. The ground has tiny particles, along with every living thing. These particles can be mixed around all by chemistry. Chemistry can change around the way a substance acts or chemically change it.
One part of the book, there's an experiment where you can make your own crystal rock formations. There's differences and similarities whether you do it at home, and if it happens in a cave. The difference is that, in a cave it takes hundreds of years, while at home, it takes about two days. Another difference is that, at home, it requires rope, and two jars. But when it happens naturally, it needs the rock, and whatever substances are around. It is similar because they end up looking like a crystal and basically the same. Both take time, and forms through hardening.
I personally don't like chemistry. This would be very fun to do at home or in a science classroom, and I could do them one day. There are lots of varieties and types of experiments. I kind of liked finding out more about chemicals and substances.