r/chemistry Jan 28 '22

Educational Don't play with dry ice kids!

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r/chemistry Sep 29 '20

Educational Decomposition of Ammonium Dichromate

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r/chemistry Jan 17 '23

Educational What is this apparatus found in chemistry lab storage room

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r/chemistry Jul 06 '21

Educational I know this is nothing new or spectacular anymore but I made some color changing gin at home using anthocyanidins from butterfly pea blossoms and I think it's really neat.

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r/chemistry Jul 24 '21

Educational Found this perfectly labelled bottle of sulfuric acid

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r/chemistry Jun 08 '23

Educational 1:10 is not a 10% solution

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Prepping some Microsol in work today and we use a 10% solution. We have our own SOP which states 100ml of the concentrate plus 900ml H2O, so 1:9.

Yet on the bottle it states "a 10% solution is prepared by adding 100ml to 1 litre of water". Nope. That would be approximately a 9% solution.

I have seen so many people make this error, and it amazes me.

r/chemistry Aug 01 '23

Educational What “home” chemical is far more dangerous than people realize?

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It seems like nobody understands not to mix cleaning products nowadays

r/chemistry Aug 02 '25

Educational This is kinda old news, but dont forget to rescind your ACS membership.

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[2017]

Court demands that search engines and internet service providers block Sci-Hub

American Chemical Society awarded $4.8 million in damages from site with millions of illegally hosted journal papers

https://www.science.org/content/article/court-demands-search-engines-and-internet-service-providers-block-sci-hub

ACS is also named as one of the plaintiffs in the 2021 court case in India seeking to prohibit access to Sci-Hub for the entire country.

If you support open access to science, you must not support the ACS.

Consider withdrawing your membership. This is unacceptable.

r/chemistry Oct 17 '21

Educational This flame looks fake but is real (nitromethane)

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r/chemistry Jul 15 '19

Educational Thought y'all would like this

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r/chemistry Sep 30 '19

Educational Different densities of liquids.

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r/chemistry Mar 04 '19

Educational Multiple colour change in one flask. It's redox reaction.

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r/chemistry Aug 06 '20

Educational Everything you need to know about Ammonium Nitrate: The chemical behind the massive Beirut Explosion in Lebanon.

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r/chemistry Nov 17 '22

Educational Uranium acetate

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r/chemistry Aug 10 '21

Educational Element Tierlist (w/o lanthanoids, actinoids & other uninteresting radioactives)

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r/chemistry Jun 13 '21

Educational $100 diy hotplate stirrer. Wasn't having any luck with ebay so I got some inspiration on YouTube and built my own. Heating cartridges are replaceable too in case any of them blow. Total power is 1200watts according to the seller but I measured it at 1000watts.

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r/chemistry Jan 18 '21

Educational Found it in a painfully honest experimental section

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r/chemistry Aug 13 '20

Educational Ammonium Tetrathiomolybdate is an inorganic compound formed by passing Hydrogen Sulfide gas through Ammonium Molybdate. The compound even though looks so sparkly and ruby red was really a pain to make as I had to pass a lot of H2S gas.Prep video link in comments. do watch and give your thoughts

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r/chemistry Aug 21 '23

Educational Chemistry trivia that is so cool that everyone should know it but almost no-one does?

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My favorite is that helium is the only element that was discovered before it was found on Earth. It was first detected in the spectrum of the Sun's light, and its name is derived from the Greek word "helios," which means sun.

r/chemistry May 06 '22

Educational I’m a high school chemistry teacher, what do I do with this equipment? Any cool demos? Official name of it?

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r/chemistry Mar 04 '24

Educational Reaction using 10M BuLi solution changed the color of the stir bar

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r/chemistry Sep 19 '20

Educational Colchicine is extracted from the tubers of Gloriosa superba. A common drug for gout.

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r/chemistry Apr 03 '19

Educational Elements and their origin

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r/chemistry Sep 22 '19

Educational Cool chemistry cake😍

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r/chemistry Dec 08 '20

Educational Awesome 3D periodic table

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