A complete exothermic reaction demonstration with a chemical explanation. Using potassium permanganate and glycerol, Professor Mike Canestro will be performing a complete exothermic reaction ...

To make a safe, portable form of heating to take to the rest of the team working up on the glacier. All combustion reactions (such as the burning of coal) are exothermic. Incredibly, the reaction ...

Storm Center 7 Meteorologist Kirstie Zontini joined Jordan Utterback and some young scientists at Boonshoft Museum of Discovery to learn about chemical and physical reactions. The kids put on their ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Elephant toothpaste is a foam substance you can easily make at home with just a couple of ingredients. It is also a kid-friendly substance and safe to play with after the experiment ...

It’s really true—science can be fun! Engaging kids with hands-on experiments activates multiple parts of the brain, which means they’re more likely to retain what they’ve learned. Children will ...

A provocative new study shows that, contrary to previous experimental results, exciting a stretching mode of a bond in a molecule during a particular simple chemical reaction does not break the ...