Chemistry videos

Chemistry Comes Alive! has about a dozen 1980s era videos of fun-to-watch chemical reactions, such as an ice bomb, a mercury "beating heart," a nitrogen triiodide explosion, and a thermite reaction.

Chemistry Comes Alive! (Via Evil Mad Scientists)

[#1 posted by moleodonuts, July 15, 2009 10:01 AM]

Holy buckets. I worked for JCE back in college and did some of these demos...

[#2 posted by Keeper of the Lantern, July 15, 2009 11:24 AM]

Chemical oscillator:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YIhTn-GY3c

I'm looking for the really wild fractal looking-one that the chaos theorists love...

[#3 posted by coldspell, July 15, 2009 12:00 PM]

These videos remind me of the hilarious BBC TV show LOOK AROUND YOU. You can find their parodies of 1970s educational films on YouTube or your friendly neighborhood bittorrent. They pack more scientific lies per minute than even Fox News! ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Around_You

[#4 posted by Tim, July 15, 2009 12:37 PM]

The University of Nottingham has a whole series of amusing "periodic table" videos on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/periodicvideos

[#5 posted by sindark, July 16, 2009 6:54 AM]

I think the "beating heart" is usually done with Gallium, as .