Chemistry Project and Experiment Ideas

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  • When you melt aluminum cans, it doesn't matter if they are painted or still contain some soda. The heat of melting them will separate the metal from the impurities.
    How to Melt Aluminum Cans at Home
  • High School kids wearing lab coats in a laboratory
    Chemistry Science Fair Project Ideas
  • Cool chemistry experiments: alkali metal in water, dehydration of sugar, copper and nitric acid, elephant toothpaste, colored fire, thermite reaction
    10 Cool Chemistry Experiments
  • You can make the crystal tree yourself or grow it from a kit.
    Grow a Magic Crystal Christmas Tree
  • Science classroom with teacher at chalkboard
    8th Grade Science Fair Project Ideas
  • Student measuring plant growth with a ruler
    Ideas for Engineering Science Fair Projects
  • Group of children watching an experiment in a school laboratory.
    10 Cool Chemistry Demonstrations for Educators
  • Abstract Image of Illuminated Flowers
    15 Fun Glow in the Dark Black Light Projects
  • Students working with chemicals in a classroom
    Middle School Science Fair Project Ideas
  • Teenage Students Studying Wind Power
    High School Science Fair Projects
  • Red Rose in Liquid Nitrogen
    Things to Do with Liquid Nitrogen
  • rainbow rose with red roses in background
    How to Make a Rainbow Rose
  • Two hands pour contents of test tube into laboratory flask
    10 Amazing Chemical Reactions
  • Children tasting limes in a kitchen
    Science Experiments for Kids: Sour, Sweet, Salty, or Bitter?
  • Students doing scientific experiment in classroom
    Science Fair Project Ideas
  • Students and their teacher watch a volcano school science project
    Baking Soda and Vinegar Chemical Volcano
  • volcano school project
    How to Make a Homemade Volcano That Smokes
  • A can of soda poured into a mouth full of white teeth
    A Dental Health Activity With Eggshells and Soda
  • Students working on a science project
    7th Grade Science Fair Projects
  • Surprised student watches chemical reaction during experiment
    4th Grade Science Fair Projects
  • Girl painting clay volcano outside.
    3rd Grade Science Fair Projects
  • Close-up of Amethyst Geode
    How To Make a Crystal Geode
  • Girl wearing goggles assembling electronics at science center
    How to Select a Science Fair Project Topic
  • view of glass with crystal needles
    How to Grow a Cup of Quick Crystal Needles
  • Boy looking at test tube during home science experiment
    Easy Crystal Growing Recipes
  • 9th graders can take home the high school science fair prize!
    9th Grade Science Fair Projects
  • Boy middle school student photographing science project poster with camera phone in classroom
    6th Grade Science Fair Projects
  • Volcano eruption science project
    5th Grade Science Fair Projects
  • Flash paper is popular for science demonstrations and magician fire.
    How to Make Nitrocellulose or Flash Paper
  • Young girl doing science
    How to Write a Science Fair Project Report
  • Sugar icicles close up.
    Make Candy Glass Icicle Decorations
  • Scientist pouring Iron chloride into beaker of potassium thiocyanate
    Briggs-Rauscher Oscillating Color Change Reaction
  • Volcano Experiment
    10 Fun Chemistry Demonstrations and Experiments
  • Dippin' Dots
    Homemade Dippin' Dots Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream
  • Wild animals and pets are fascinating science fair subjects!
    Animal Science Fair Project Ideas
  • Dry ice fog coming out of a cup
    Cool Dry Ice Experiments
  • A balance is an instrument used to measure mass in a laboratory.
    How to Measure Mass Using a Balance
  • Man working with glue on birdhouse
    5 Ways to Make Glue
  • Polymer balls
    How to Make a Bouncing Polymer Ball
  • Female hands holding a large crystal close up.
    How to Perform a Recrystallization
  • Kinetic sand sticks to itself, so it doesn't make a sandy mess.
    Kinetic Sand Recipe
  • You can grow borax crystals on a star shape to form borax crystal stars.
    How to Grow a Borax Crystal Star
  • Make a rubber chicken bone: Soak bones in vinegar to simulate the decalcification of bones that can result from osteoporosis.
    Rubber Chicken Bone Science Experiment
  • Chemical reactions often produce dramatic color changes.
    Color Change Chemistry Experiments
  • Sticks of multi-colored rock candy
    How to Make Rock Candy
  • Red Sharpie Pen
    How to Fix a Dried out Sharpie
  • homemade baking soda stalactites and stalagmites
    Make Baking Soda Stalactites and Stalagmites
  • close up of pink tablets
    Get Bismuth Metal from Pepto-Bismol Antacid Tablets
  • Boy with muddy hands
    Plant and Soil Chemistry Science Projects
  • Nitrous oxide molecule
    How to Make Nitrous Oxide (Laughing Gas)
  • Bowl of powder on a kitchen counter.
    How to Make Powdered Olive Oil
  • This chemical volcano erupts when baking soda and vinegar are reacted to produce carbon dioxide bubbly "lava".
    You've Got Ingredients for a Chemical Volcano
  • Glass test tubes, funnel and stir stick.
    How to Bend and Draw Glass Tubing
  • This blue rock candy is practically the same color as the sky.
    How to Make Crystals
  • Turkey on a dining room table surrounded by sides
    Why Thanksgiving Dinner Makes You So Sleepy
  • Portrait of Amedeo Carlo Avogadro (Turin, 1776-1856), Count of Quaregna and Cerreto, Italian chemist and physicist, Engraving
    Experimental Determination of Avogadro's Number
  • a person holding a genie lamp emitting vapors
    Create a Magic Genie in a Bottle Effect (Chemistry)
  • science fair
    Make a Science Fair Poster or Display
  • Crystals growing on a string
    Crystal Science Fair Projects
  • Florist making a bouquet of flowers
    Coloring Carnations Science Experiment
  • Make Potassium Chlorate from Bleach and Salt Substitute
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