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Web Resources:
Click on "Mixtures" to test different solutes and solvents in Stella's Action Lab.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sia/game_index.html
Click on "Home demos", then select "Marvelous marbling". Use the fact that oil and water do not mix to make marbled paper
http://nyelabs.kcts.org/openNyeLabs.html
Use the immiscible properties of two liquids to make a glitter toy
http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/glitter.html
Try this simple experiment to find out how heat affects the speed at which
a solid dissolves in a liquid
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~coalitn/sciedoutreach/funexperiments/
quickndirty/hyperchem//soltemp.html

Find out how to write chemical formula
http://www.goodnet.com/~watsonj/chemistry/
Learn about some compounds that have been of great benefit to humanity
http://www.chem.yorku.ca/hall_of_fame/gallery.IE.htm
Type in a compound's name for molecular models and basic information
http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/compounds/library.shtml
Play a game matching common compounds to their chemical names
http://www.quia.com/mc/65904.html
Information about naming compounds
http://library.thinkquest.org/3659/atommole/molecular.html
Information about bonds and how chemists represent them
http://library.thinkquest.org/10429/high/bonding/bonding.htm
An in-depth look at the different types of bonding
http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~acarpi/NSC/5-bonds.htm
A comprehensive article that explains bonding in all its different forms
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0811630.html
An advanced site that explains the meaning of valency, and gives details
of the history of research into the subject
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=76635
Choose "Home Demos" then "Flip Your Lid" for how to make an explosive reaction
http://nyelabs.kcts.org/openNyeLabs.html
Play a game about balancing equations
http://www.dun.org/sulan/chembalancer/
Basic information about chemical reactions
http://www.cornwallis.kent.sch.uk/intranet/subjects/science
/chemreact/Index.html

Go here to find out more about moles
http://library.thinkquest.org/3310/nographics/textbook/u01s05.html
Try out this exothermic reaction
http://www.spartechsoftware.com/reeko/Experiments/
ExpSteelWoolGeneratingHeat.htm

Find out more about rates of reaction
http://www.chem4kids.com/reactions/time.html
Find out more about catalysts
http://members.aol.com/ChangChem3/CALbasicRORcat.html
Read about chemical reactions in garlic
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/newtons/12/garlic.html

How an internal combustion engine works using a chemical reaction
http://www.howstuffworks.com/engine1.htm
Try this experiment to see the effect of surface area on the rate of reaction
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?tname
=2690&url=2690/exper/exp5.htm

Read all about the chemical reactions that take place when you make bread
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/newtons/12/bread.html
An introduction to acids and bases
http://www.chem4kids.com/reactions/acidbase.html
In-depth information about acids
http://www.purchon.com/chemistry/acids.htm
Try this experiment with an acid
http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/copper_caper.html
Detailed information about papermaking (lye is another name for
sodium hydroxide)
http://cator.hsc.edu/~kmd/caveman/projects/paper/
Visit the pH Factor Web site for lots of useful information and experiments
http://www.miamisci.org/ph/
Go to this Web page for some in-depth information about pH
http://www.purchon.com/chemistry/ph.htm
This Web page has a list of the pH values of many types of food and drink
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/app3a.html
Detailed information about how sulphuric acid is produced
http://cator.hsc.edu/~kmd/caveman/projects/acid/
Lots of information about potash, one of the first bases to be discovered
http://cator.hsc.edu/~kmd/caveman/projects/potash/