what other foods should I make holographic?
don't eat elemental magnesium, please
it's called boryne
eggshell fuel gel (reactions meets chem thug)
how hydrogen bonding works
everclear-assisted crystallization (or EAC as no one will ever call it)
most textbooks are mostly wrong about osmosis
so we don't really understand how ice forms...
glucose in passover coke?
my dog ate an entire box of packing peanuts
there's a surprising amount of fluoride in tea
it's called "heterogeneous nucleation"
don't swallow watch batteries
here's how those hand warmers work
gel tab goo turns white when you swallow it
getting (some) bismuth out of Pepto Bismol
stop it with the CaCl2 in canned tomatoes
tempering chocolate is chemical engineering
why cane sugar vs HFCS in a soda doesn't matter much
the internet was wrong
burning steel wool in pure oxygen
i centrifuged different coffees ☕
Ti-dyeing (get it?)
Bredt’s Rule was broken
the $21 sand smoothie
making my own skin transparent?
can you freeze distill everclear to make it stronger?
meth/MDMA test makes no sense
i made a battery out of lasagna
over the counter methamphetamine
brownian motion
they have oxygen built in (KClO3, not KClO4)
why doesn't Tylenol come with the antidote already in it?
you should hate cilantro
why does every drug name end in HCl?
why chocolate ruins chewing gum
pennies vs anti-tarnish strips
mislabeled tattoo inks 😬
good ol canned 1,1-difluoroethane
flame speed test
WHOOPS, words are hard
sacrificial anode 🙏 (and oops, it’s LESS electronegative, not more)
why airplane tires explode
whacking oobleck with a mallet
they've got an antidote for tylenol
what about these eclipse glasses anyway?
does a charcoal filter make cheap vodka better?
Enveloped vs non-enveloped viruses
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