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Junk Drawer Chemistry: 50 Awesome Experiments That Don’t Cost a Thing (Junk Drawer Science)

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There’s not need for expensive, high-tech lab equipment to conduct chemistry experiments-when you’ve got all you wish to have in your house junk drawer. Turn three pennies and two galvanized washers into a simple battery. Crush a soda can the usage of atmospheric pressure. Convert an LED flashlight into a simple electrolyte tester. Split liquid water into two unique gasses, or use cornstarch to create a gooey, mysterious, non-Newtonian fluid. And model radioactive decay the usage of M&M’s, or a chain reaction with a set of dominoes. Who needs a laboratory if in case you have a kitchen counter? Science teacher Bobby Mercer provides readers with more than 50 great hands-on experiments that may be performed for just pennies . . . or less. Each project has a materials list, detailed step by step instructions with illustrations, and a brief explanation of the scientific principle being demonstrated. Junk Drawer Chemistry also includes sidebars of fascinating chemistry facts: did you know that a lemon contains more sugar than a strawberry? Educators and parents will find this title a handy resource to teach children about chemistry topics that come with atoms, compounds, solutions, mixtures, reactions, thermodynamics, acids and bases, and more, and have fun at the same time. Bobby Mercer has been a high school physics teacher for over two decades. He is the creator of Junk Drawer Physics, The Flying Machine Book, and The Racecar Book, and lives with his family out of doors of Asheville, North Carolina.

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