Follows the philosophy and format of the first volume. Contains 112 demonstrations appropriate for any introductory chemical program. Offers clear, concise text that details each demonstration. Explains how to do it, what the reactions are, and how to prepare materials and solutions. Provides a cross listing of demonstrations and chemical topics, thus allowing you to quickly find the right demonstration to fit a specific topic. Will benefit both student and teacher.
Gathers experiments involving chemical bonding, energy changes, solubility, and equilibrium
Preface Introducing Chemistry
1. The First Demonstration: Proof that Air Is a Substance
2. Ira Remsen's Investigation of Nitric Acid
3. Burning Water
4. The Copper Cycle
Physical Changes
5. Egg in a Bottle
6. Nonadditivity of Volumes
7. The Mysterious Sunken Ice Cube
8. Colorful Mixture Separations
9. Surface Tension of Water: the Floating Needle
10. Liquid Nitrogen
11. The Cartesian Diver: an Application of Boyle's Law
12. Charles' Law: the Relationship between Volume and Temperature
13. Boiling at Reduced Pressure
14. The Collapsing Plastic Soft Drink Bottle and Soft Drink Can
15. The Automatic Water Fountain: Hydrogen Effusion
16. Eutectic Solidification
Reactions Involving Gases
17. Making Hydrogen Gas from an Acid and a Base
18. Dancing Spaghetti
19. Producing Methane Gas
20. A Hand-Held Reaction: Production of Ammonia Gas
21. Producing Two Gases from Ammonium Chloride
22. Fluidity of Gases
23. The "Aladdin's Lamp" Reaction
24. Sparkler in Pure Oxygen
25. A Simple Reaction to Produce Foam
26. A Gas Evolution Oscillator
Reactions of Some Elements
27. Producing Hydrogen Gas from Calcium Metal
28. Plastic Sulfur
29. Recycling Aluminum
30. Making Sodium Chloride from Sodium and Chlorine
31. Burning Magnesium in Carbon Dioxide
32. The Glowing Test Tube
33. Halogens Compete for Electrons
34. Separating Metallic Iron from Cereal
35. Floating Pennies
36. Slow Copper Diffusion
37. Liquid Iodine
Transition Metals and Complex Ions
38. Copper Sulfate: Blue to White
39. Green and Blue Copper Complexes
40. Cycling Copper Complexes
41. Colorful Complex Ions in Ammonia
42. The Magic Handkerchief
43. Hydroxides of Iron: Blue to Brown
44. Appearing and Disappearing Silver
45. Solubility of Some Silver Compounds
Chemical Bonding
46. Microcrystal Formation
47. Solubility and Immiscibility
48. Bending a Stream of Water
49. Waves in a Bottle
50. The Nonpolar Disk Game
51. Alkanes versus Alkenes: Reaction of the Double Bond
52. The Disappearing Coffee Cup
53. Hydrogen Bonding in Slime
Energy Changes
54. A Chemical Hand Warmer
55. The Acid in Water Puzzle
56. Flaming Cotton
57. Nitrocellulose
58. The Self-Lighting Candle
59. Electrochemical Energy in a Flash
60. Making Canned Heat
61. Chemiluminescence: Glowing School Colors
Solutions and Solubility
62. Chemical "Miracles" from 1808
63. Ions in Slow Motion
64. Supersaturation
65. Name That Precipitate
66. Sugar in a Can of Soft Drink: a Density Exercise
67. Patriotic Presentation
68. A Glittering Shower of Lead Iodide Crystals
69. Red and White Precipitates in Sodium Silicate
70. Electrolytic Titration
71. Do Frozen Solutions Conduct Electricity?
72. Osmosis and the Egg Membrane
73. Growing Ammonium Oxalate Crystals
Kinetics and Equilibrium
74. Temperature and Reduction of Permanganate
75. Balloon Kinetics
76. Appearing Red
77. Disappearing Red
78. A Variation of the Starch-Iodine Clock Reaction
79. Catalytic Copper
80. Enzyme Kinetics: Effects of Temperature and an Inhibitor on Catalase Extracted from Potato
81. Enzyme Specificity: Polyphenoloxidase from Potato
82. Autocatalytic Effect
83. Oxidation of Manganese (II) Sulfate by a Catalyst
84. An Organic Clock Reaction
85. Equilibrium: the Dissociation of Acetic Acid
86. Variations of the Formalin Clock Reaction
Acids and Bases
87. Acid Rain
88. White Wine or Grape Juice?
89. Amphoteric Properties of Metal Hydroxides
90. Milk of Magnesia versus Acid
91. Simple Buffer Action
92. Disappearing Ink
93. Colorful Effects of Hydrochloric Acid Dilution
94. The Boiler-Scale Reaction
95. The Puzzling Case of Ammonium Sulfate
Oxidation and Reduction Reactions
96. Reversible Oxidation-Reduction Color Changes
97. The Copper Mirror
98. Reduction of Copper Oxide
99. Corrosion of an Iron Nail
100. Indigo: the Oldest Dye
101. A Red and Blue Electron Trail
102. Reduction of Sand with Magnesium
103. Electroplating Copper
104. Electrolysis of Potassium Iodide
105. The Aluminum-Copper Trade-Off
106. Water Electrolysis in Yellow, Green, and Blue
107. Visible Oxidation-Reduction in Electrochemical Cells
108. Metal Displacement: Copper and Mercury
109. Hydrogen Peroxide as an Oxidizing and a Reducing Agent
110. Oxidation and Reduction of the Halides
Appendixes
1. Periodic Chart of the Elements
2. Properties and Preparation of Laboratory Acids and Bases
3. Equipment and Reagent List
4. Safe Use of Chemicals
5. Chemical Disposal and Spill Guidelines
6. Guidelines for Safe Chemical Demonstrations
7. Cross-Reference of Demonstrations and Chemical Topics
8. Atomic Weights of the Elements
Index