Websites that are informative, interesting, and fun.
Any thoughts/suggestions on helpful websites would be greatly
appreciated! If you see a great site let me know.
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Online Unit Converter |
Choose the category you want (on the right), select the units, and
enter the numbers to convert. Pretty nifty way to check yourself. |
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Diet
Coke and Mentos |
Videos of the Diet Coke and Mentos experiment - in series!
These are great! |
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The Mole Song |
Perfect for Mole Day (10/23 - usually starts at 6:02 am - get it?) |
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Snowflakes!
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Awesome pictures and descriptions. |
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General Chemistry Resources |
Purdue University links
to help with studying, practice, and review |
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Atom/Mole/Molecule Relationship |
Converting between atoms, molecules, and moles |
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WebElements |
A great interactive website showing tons of
information on each of the elements. |
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The Exploding Whale |
Do you really need a description for this? |
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Light Emission/Absorption |
Tutorial
explaining electron transitions in elements for the emission and
absorption of light. Click on "View Tutorial" for light emission
and absorption. |
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Ferromagnetic Fluids |
Series of
movies showing the interaction of ferromagnetic fluids with magnets. |
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Periodic Table of Comic Books |
Website that links elements and their mention in
comic books |
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Book List: This is a list
of books that relate to science and/or chemistry that are interesting,
well-written, and worth a look (work in progress). |
A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
Provides a great summary of the history of the world, broken down into
chapters that cover each branch of science. Long book but easy to
break up into sections.
Napoleon's Buttons: 17 Molecules that Changed History by Penny
M. Le Couteur and Jay Burreson
Another history book that looks at how molecules or classes of molecules
have played a role in the evolution of modern society.
Atkins' Molecules by
Peter Atkins
This book provides short (paragraph long) summaries of various molecules
with some specifics about their chemistry but more on how they work. |