"Chemistry" Blogs & Blog Posts

According to this new YouTube video, duct tape was invented during World War II as a way to quickly repair ammunition boxes in the field. That alone was surprising to me because I thought it was for connecting duct tubing, as the name suggests. ̵...

See what happens when a spoon of liquid nitrogen is dropped into a bowl of gasoline. The liquid nitrogen bounces around the bowl inside of the gasoline in a clump and then bursts outwards into the air. It looks like a little ghost, running around in...

Original Article by TechSling Weblog: Introduction IB Chemistry is a rigorous and challenging course that forms a critical part of the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. This program is renowned for its academic rigor and emphasis on preparing...

Researchers believe that an asteroid in our galaxy is denser than the densest element in the Periodic Table.

Quantum dots power your TV screen and have now earned three scientists the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

A Florida man was caught on camera injecting chemicals underneath the front door of the apartment above his home after complaining that his neighbors — who had just had a baby — were too loud. (See video below, posted by Law & Crime Network.)...

Why do old books smell so good? The answer is, as Science Switch reports, because they were made differently to modern ones, and are decaying. An almond scent comes from benzaldehyde in the paper. Vanillin, the main compound in vanilla, is respon...