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Chem Facts for Fun
2. How Do You Make Fireworks of Different Colors?
3. How Does Ozone Destroy Elastomers?
4. Why Do We Add Fluorinated Groups to Many Drugs?
5. Which Are the Only Elements Liquid at Room Temperature?
6. Where Did Most of the Oxygen in the Atmosphere Come From?
7. What is the Toughest Total Synthesis Ever Accomplished?
8. What Is Hot Spicy and Cold Spicy?
9. How Long Can Gold Wires Go?
10. What Is a Rather Useless Property of DNA that Everyone Knows About?
11. What’s the Difference Between Caffeine and Theine?
12. What are Churchane, Housane, and Padogane?
13. Can You Put Out a Candle with Home Made Carbon Dioxide?
14. Can Table Salt Adopt Other Stoichiometry Than NaCl (1:1)?
15. How Was the Structure of Benzene First Conceived?
16. Can We Make Anthropomorphic Molecules?
17. What Makes Up >99% of the Normal Matter in the Universe?
19. What’s Especial About Vanadium Oxide?
20. What Are Olympic Gold Medals Made Of?
21. Do Chemists Know How to Make Drugs?
24. How Does the Coke+Mentos Experiment Work?
25. Why Are Graphite Rods Used in Nuclear Reactors?
26. Why Do Onions Make You Cry?
27. Why Does Ice Float on Water?
28. Why Is Soap Used for Cleaning?
30. What Happens to Food While Cooking it?
31. What Venom do Wasps and Bees Have?
32. Can You Turn Lead into Gold?
33. Why Do We Put Salt Into Icy Roads?
34. Why Does Asparagus Make Your Pee Smell?
35. Why Does the Planet Uranus, Rich in Methane and Hydrogen, not Burn?
36. How Does the Sun Burn without Oxygen?
38. Can You Cool Pure Liquid Water Below Zero Degrees?
42. What Is the Difference Between Glass and Crystal?
44. Are Two Atoms of the Same Element Exactly the Same?
45. What Is the Origin of Life?
46. Is There Any Liquid Metal at Room Temperature?
47. Why Do Some Balloons Float?
49. Why Do Storms Smell Like Ozone?
50. Is Glass a Solid or a Liquid?
51. How Old are Hydrogen Atoms in Our Body?
53. Can a Substance Solidify Upon Heating?
54. Can We Reach Absolute Zero Temperature?
55. Why Does High Air Humidity Make it Feel Hotter?
56. Can You Die for Drinking too Much Water?
57. Why Car Airbags Are Filled with Sodium Azide, a Very Toxic Substance?
58. How Many Molecules Are in a Rubber Tire?
59. Why Does Water Expand when Freezing?
60. Who Discovered the Periodic Table?
61. How Does Helium Change Your Voice?
62. How Did We Discover that Diamonds Are Made of Carbon?
63. What Would Happen if you Peed in Space?
66. What Happens When You Add Table Salt to a Volume of Water?
67. What Happens if You Mix Half a Liter of Alcohol and Half a Liter of Water?
68. Can You Taste Food without Saliva?
69. What Color is Lobster Blood?
70. Can Goldfishes See Colors?
71. Why Do Fresh Eggs Sink, and Rotten Eggs Float?
72. How Hot Does a Lightning Strike Get? Is it Hotter than the Sun?
73. Why Does Wildfire Spread Uphill Quicker than Downhill?
75. What is the Hardest Chemical in Your Body?
76. What’s the Role of Ethylene in Fruit Ripening?
78. Do Metals Have Antibacterial Properties?
80. Is There Helium on Earth, and How Do We Collect It?
81. How Much Carbon Is in the Human Body?
82. Do Mosquitoes Bite More Girls than Boys?
83. What Is the Softest Substance?
84. What Is the First Element Ever Created?
85. Which is the Heaviest Element in the World?
86. What Is the Rarest Element on Earth?
87. How Dangerous is Hydrofluoric Acid?
88. How Much Gold Is There on Earth?
89. Why Do Coins Have a Smell?
90. Why Gold Does not Present a Silvery Shine as Most Metals?
91. What’s Special About Gallium?
92. How Many Water Molecules Are in a Bucket?
93. Does the Hole in the Ozone Layer Still Exist?
94. What Is the First Time that Chemistry Has Been Used?
95. Can We See Atoms and Molecules?
97. How Did They Come Up with Coca-Cola?
98. What is More Complex, the Universe or Chess?
99. What Happens if You Clean Your Hands with Bleach?
100. Are We Made Mostly of Empty Space?
101. BONUS: Should I Trust an Atom?
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