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Experiments available on this site are listed below in alphabetical order.

Over 200 experiments

Here are all the experiments we have published in alphabetical order. There are more in the pipeline so please check back soon.

1. A colourful clock reaction ('Old Nassau')    
2. A colourful oscillating reaction   
3. A giant silver mirror   
4. A hydrogen powered rocket
5. A reversible reaction involving hydrated copper (II) sulfate and its anhydrous form    
6. A solid-solid reaction
7. A test to distinguish between ethanol and methanol
8. A thermometric titration
9. Acid in the air
10. Acid or alkali? Acidic or alkaline?
11. Acid-base neutralisation – a microscale titration 
12. Addition polymerisation
13. Alkali metals
14. Allotropes of sulfur
15. Ammonia fountain
16. Ammonium dichromate volcano
17. An equilibrium involving chromate(VI) and dichromate(VI) ions
18. An equilibrium involving copper(II) ions
19. An oscillating reaction
20. Anodising aluminium   
21. Bubbles that float and sink   
22. 'Cannon Fire'   
23. Catalysis of the reaction between sodium thiosulfate and hydrogen peroxide   
24. Catalysis of the reaction between sodium thiosulfate solution and iron(III) nitrate solution   
25. Catalysis of the reaction between zinc and sulfuric acid
26. Catalysts for the thermal decomposition of potassium chlorate
27. Chemicals from seawater
28. Chemiluminescence - cold light
29. Chocolate and Egg
30. Chocolate and structure
31. Chromatography of leaves
32. Chromatography of sweets
33. Colorimetric determination of a copper ore
34. Colourful electrolysis
35. Combustion of hydrogen in air
36. Comparing light- and heavy-duty detergents
37. Controlled explosion of a hydrogen-air mixture
38. Controlled explosion of a methane-air mixture
39. Cooking potatoes
40. Cracking hydrocarbons
41. Cracking hydrocarbons on a microscale   
42. Decolourising and deodorising
43. Dehydration of ethanol to form ethene
44. Detecting starch in food
45. Detergents, soaps and surface tension
46. Determination of Relative Atomic Mass
47. Determining relative molecular masses by weighing gases
48. Determining the relative molecular mass of butane
49. Developing a glue
50. Diffusion in liquids
51. Diffusion of gases – ammonia and hydrogen chloride
52. Disappearing plastic!
53. Displacement reactions between metals and their salts
54. Displacement series for non-metals?
55. Distribution of iodine between two immiscible solvents
56. Dyeing – three colours from the same dye-bath   
57. Electrolysing molten lead(II) bromide
58. Electrolysis of copper(II) sulfate solution
59. Electrolysis of zinc chloride
60. Emulsifiers
61. Endothermic solid-solid reactions
62. Energy in or out: classifying reactions
63. Energy values of food
64. Equilibria involving carbon dioxide in aqueous solution
65. Estimation of the concentration of household bleach  
66. Evidence for the ionic model: Migration of ions
67. Exothermic metal displacement reactions
68. Exothermic metal-acid reactions
69. Exothermic or endothermic?
70. Experiments with hydrogels – hair gel and disposable nappies
71. Experiments with hydrogels – plant water storage crystals
72. Exploding balloons
73. Exploding bubbles of hydrogen and oxygen
74. Extracting iodine from seaweed
75. Extracting iron from breakfast cereal
76. Extracting metals from rocks
77. Extracting metals with charcoal
78. Extraction of iron on a match head    
79. Fat-pan fire!
80. Fermentation of glucose using yeast
81. Finding the formula of copper oxide
82. Finding the formula of hydrated copper(II) sulfate
83. Flame colours - a demonstration
84. Formation of a sol   
85. Halogen reactions with iron
86. Heat energy from alcohols
87. Heating group 1 metals in air and in chlorine
88. How can hardness in water be removed?
89. How do acids and alkalis react?
90. How much air is used during rusting?   
91. Identifying polymers
92. Identifying the products of combustion
93. Identifying the products of electrolysis
94. Indicators and dry ice: demonstration
95. Investigating the solubilities of lead halides
96. Involvement of catalysts in reactions
97. Iodine clock reaction
98. Iron and sulfur reaction    
99. Le Chatelier's Principle: the effect of concentration and temperature on equilibrium
100. Le Chatelier's Principle: the effect of concentration on equilibrium
101. Le Chatelier’s principle: the equilibrium between nitrogen dioxide and dinitrogen tetroxide
102. Liquefying chlorine gas   
103. 'Magic' writing
104. Making a crystal garden
105. Making a pH indicator
106. Making a photographic print
107. Making a plastic from potato starch
108. Making an alloy (solder)
109. Making and testing ammonia
110. Making esters from alcohols and acids
111. Making glass
112. Making magnesium carbonate: an example of a salt that is insoluble in water
113. Making rayon
114. Making soaps and detergents
115. Measuring heat energy of fuels
116. Melting and freezing stearic acid
117. Metals and acids
118. Microbes and bread making using yeast
119. Microbes, milk and enzymes – souring process
120. Microscale extraction of copper
121. Microscale preparation of ethyl benzoate
122. Microscale reactions of chlorine   
123. Modelling alloys with plasticine  
124. Money to burn    
125. Neutralisation - 'curing acidity'    
126. Oxidation of ethanol    
127. Phenol-methanal polymerisation    
128. pH oxides   
129. pH scale  
130. PVA polymer slime  
131. Particles in motion    
132. Preferential discharge of cations during electrolysis    
133. Preparing a soluble salt by neutralisation    
134. Preparing an insoluble salt    
135. Preparing and using cobalt chloride indicator papers    
136. Preparing salts by neutralisation with oxides and carbonates    
137. Preventing rusting    
138. Properties of alkali metal compounds    
139. Properties of hydrogen chloride    
140. Purification of an impure solid  
141. Quantitative electrolysis of aqueous copper(II) sulfate
142. Rate of evaporation
143. Rate of reaction of magnesium with hydrochloric acid
144. Rates and rhubarb
145. Reacting copper(II) oxide with sulfuric acid
146. Reaction between aluminium and iodine
147. Reaction of hydrogen and oxygen: reacting masses
148. Reaction of zinc with iodine
149. Reactions of aqueous solutions of the halogens
150. Reactions of chlorine, bromine and iodine with aluminium
151. Reactions of positive ions with sodium hydroxide (microscale version)
152. Rechargeable commercial cells: the lead-acid accumulator
153. Recovering pure water from a solution using a water condenser
154. Recovering water from copper sulfate solution
155. Red, white and blue!
156. Separating sand and salt
157. Silver and lead halides
158. Sodium ethanoate stalagmite
159. Solid mixtures – a tin and lead solder
160. Solubility patterns among anions of the Group 7 elements
161. Spontaneous exothermic reaction
162. Sulfuric acid as a dehydrating agent
163. Supercooling - the energetics of freezing
164. Testing for enzymes
165. Testing the hardness of water
166. The 'blue bottle' experiment
167. The acidic reactions of ethanoic acid
168. The alcohol 'gun'
169. The causes of rusting
170. The change in mass when magnesium burns
171. The combustion of iron wool
172. The conversion of ethanol to bromoethane
173. The copper envelope
174. The cornflour ‘bomb'
175. The density of carbon dioxide
176. The density of ice
177. The equilibrium between Co(H₂O)6²⁺ and CoCl₄^2- in aqueous solution
178. The fractional distillation of crude oil
179. The Greenhouse Effect
180. The hydration of alkenes
181. The oxidation of alcohols
182. The oxidation of cyclohexanol by potassium dichromate(VI)
183. The part that water plays in acidity
184. The photochemical reactions of chlorine with hydrogen and with methane
185. The position of iron in the reactivity series
186. The properties of alcohols
187. The reaction between carbon dioxide and water
188. The reaction between zinc and copper oxide
189. The reaction of ethyne with chlorine
190. The reaction of magnesium with copper(II) oxide
191. The real reactivity of aluminium
192. The sublimation of air freshener
193. The thermal decomposition of nitrates - 'writing with fire'
194. The thermal properties of water
195. The thermite reaction
196. The ‘Whoosh’ Bottle Demonstration
197. The 'breathalyser' reaction
198. Thermal decomposition of calcium carbonate
199. Thermal decomposition of metal carbonates
200. Titrating sodium hydroxide with hydrochloric acid
201. To find out if tap water and sea water contain dissolved solids
202. Trends in the solubility of metal halides – a microscale experiment
203. Turning 'red wine' into 'water'
204. Turning copper coins into 'silver' and 'gold'
205. Universal Indicator 'Rainbow'
206. Unsaturation in fats and oils
207. Urea-methanal polymerisation
208. Using indigestion tablets to neutralise an acid
209. Water expands when it freezes
210. What are the dissolved solids in sea water?
211. What makes a substance 'acidic'?
212. Where does carbon come in the reactivity series?
213. Which ions cause hardness in water?
214. Which substances conduct electricity?