61 Creative Chemistry Experiments

You will need: A tall transparent glass Water (warm) Food colour Vegetable oil Another glass or cup All of us love fireworks. What if you could create colourful fireworks which burst inside a glass of water? Follow this experiment to find out the method. INSTRUCTIONS Take a tall transparent glass and pour warm water into […]

You will need: Distilled water (likepackaged pure drinkingwater) Chiller tray of yourfridge Small bowl filled with ice Thermometer If you’re looking for a cool new trick to show it to your friends, then here it is! Turn water into ice right in front of their eyes. But, get everything lined up first. INSTRUCTIONS Take a

You will need: 1 cup of warm milk 1 tablespoonful ofnormal white vinegar 2 mould Food colour Paper napkins or clothnapkins Strainer Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could prove to your friends that you can turn liquid-like milk into something as hard as a stone? INSTRUCTIONS Take one cup of milk heated a littlemore

You will need: 5 fireproof glass dishes Rubbing alcohol For red, you will needlithium from a lithiumbattery For orange, you needbleaching powder For green, you need boraxpowder or boric acid For blue, you need keroseneor any other fuel For violet, you needpotassium chloride or saltsubstitute Matchstick or a lighter We all have seen rainbows. What

You will need: 1-litre clear plastic bottle Warm water Matchstick Tongs Thin strip of cardboard Have you ever wondered how clouds are formed? And more importantly, have you ever wanted to see them up close? INSTRUCTIONS Take warm to hot water and pour very little into the plastic bottle, enough to cover the base of

You will need: Hard-boiled egg (peeled) A glass bottle with alarge mouth (but notbigger than the egg) Strips of paper Matchsticks Scissors It’s amazing how many magic tricks can easily be explained with science. And to add one more trick to the bag of everything magical, is the following experiment. INSTRUCTIONS Ask an adult to

You will need: A 10-rupee note 95-100% rubbing alcohol Water Lighter Salt Tongs Have you ever wondered how magicians set fire to money, only to blow it off and still have the note intact. INSTRUCTIONS Before we begin, remember playing with fire may be fun but it is dangerous. So, perform this experiment with an

You will need: Vegetable oil Magnet Laser jet toner (availableat your local xerox shop) Transparent bowl Ferro fluids or liquid magnets seem to besomething straight out of a sci-fi movie. Thefollowing experiment shows you how you couldcreate them at home and impress your friends. INSTRUCTIONS Take a transparent bowl (probably one which you are not

You will need: Citrus fruits (like lemonsor oranges) Copper nail or wire (2inches at least) Zinc nail or screw Holiday lights or zero-watt bulb (with a lead of2 inches) Electrical tape INSTRUCTIONS Take any citrus fruit and roll it between your palms without breaking the skin so that the juices may be flowing inside. Take

You will need: Eggs Red cabbage Spoon Pan Strainer Do you want to keep strange foods at your party? These are the foods that will fascinate and amaze your friends at the same time. INSTRUCTIONS Firstly, ask an adult to chop up and heat a red cabbage till it softens. Once it has cooled, keep

You will need: 1-litre transparent plasticbottle. Salt A few ketchup packetsfrom any fast foodrestaurant Water Understand the workings of density and buoyancy of an object through this easy but fun experiment. INSTRUCTIONS Firstly, you need to test whether your ketchup packet will float or sink. Half fill a bottle with water, scrunch up the ketchup

You will need: 4-5 egg shells, washedand dried Egg carton or some otherbox to hold the egg shells Epsom salt or commontable salt Hot water Different food colours Geodes are nothing but rocks which contain a core made up of crystal. The creation of geodes takes many years, but you can speed up their formation

You will need: Borax powder Cornstarch Normal school glue Warm water Food colour 2 plastic glasses Spoon Who doesn’t love toys? And one of the most fundamental toys of all times is the ball. What if you could create your very own crazy ball at home? INSTRUCTIONS In one plastic glass, make a borax solution

You will need: 3 clear glasses Two 500 gm vitamin Ctablets Iodine (2%) (available atyour local chemist) Hydrogen peroxide (3%)(also available at thechemist) Liquid starch Measuring glass andspoon Warm water Magic and science are the two sides of the same coin. You can create magic with the help of science and teach science as if

You will need: ¾ cup of cold water ½ cup of warm water 1 cup of normal schoolglue Liquid food colour andglitter (if you want) 1 teaspoonful of Borax powder 2 bowls Bounce it, stretch it, flatten it or roll it; havefun any way you like with your very ownflubber. INSTRUCTIONS In one bowl, mix