The web is full of great videos demonstrating the wonder of chemistry. We've selected the very best ones for your entertainment.
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The Elements Game
The Elements Game
Can you beat 26 month old Rosie's knowledge of the Periodic Table?
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Daniel Radcliffe sings The Elements
Daniel Radcliffe sings The Elements
Daniel Radcliffe, star in the Harry Potter films, sings The Elements by Tom Lehrer on the Graham Norton Show.
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Do the Twist with non-Newtonian fluids
Do the Twist with non-Newtonian fluids
Put a non-Newtonian fluid on a speaker and watch the results
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Chemistry party
Chemistry party
What would elements be like if they all met at a party?
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Nitroglycerine
Nitroglycerine
Why you shouldn't hit nitroglycerine with a hammer
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Why does the sun shine?
Why does the sun shine?
Sun shine is the result of nuclear fission taking place in the sun turning hydrogen into helium.
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Google instant's Elements song
Google instant's Elements song
Google Instant plus Tom Lehrer creates fun musical chemistry mayhem
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The Science of White
The Science of White
Andrea Sella discusses the science of the colour white.
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The colour of money
The colour of money
Changing the colour of money using chemistry
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Meet the Elements
Meet the Elements
A song by They Might Be Giants from their album Here Comes Science
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Oxygen at elementary school!
Oxygen at elementary school!
Oxygen tries to make friends in the playground
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How photocopiers work
The science behind a photocopier
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Chip Pan Fire
Chip Pan Fire
How not to handle a chip pan fire
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Barking dog
Barking dog
A lit tube 'barks' like a dog
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Milk kaleidoscope
Milk kaleidoscope
Washing up liquid, food colour and milk create a kaleidoscope
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Pharaoh's serpent
Pharaoh's serpent
Setting light to some white powder raises a mysterious serpent
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Amazing fluorescence demo
Amazing fluorescence demo
Incredible green fluorescence in a beaker
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Phosphorus sun
Phosphorus sun
Dr Hal Sosabowski performs a beautiful and dangerous experiment
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Money to burn
Money to burn
A £20 note goes up in flames and survives the ordeal
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Vanishing cup trick
Vanishing cup trick
A styrofoam cup completely disappears in acetone
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Learn to drive with chemistry
Learn to drive with chemistry
Driving involves the full spectrum of fluorescence
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Whoosh bottle
Whoosh bottle
A jet engine in a watter bottle
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Coke density
Coke density
Just how much sugar is there in that can of Coke?
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Volcano!
Volcano!
A smouldering pile suddenly emits a shower of sparks, flames and smoke
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Sugar snake
Sugar snake
Sugar turns in to a large black snake, which rises out a beaker
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Flame tests
Flame tests
Different metals burn with different colours
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Making hot ice
Making hot ice
"Hot ice" is actually super-saturated sodium acetate solution and is great fun to play with
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Jumping sodium
Jumping sodium
Sodium and water react violently, but here's a nice way of demonstrating it
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Dry ice bubble
Dry ice bubble
A great effect - a huge bubble filled with carbon dioxide and water vapour. Watch as it bursts...
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Flaming ice
Flaming ice
Odd as it sounds - setting ice on fire
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Underwater fireworks
Underwater fireworks
Lighting welding gas underwater makes for a nice show
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Elephant toothpaste
Elephant toothpaste
How to produce very large quantities of foam very rapidly
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Make silly putty
Make silly putty
Do some chemistry at home, get a fun product!
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