1. Ask the adult you are working with to light the candle. 2. Watch the candle flame start out small and get bigger. Notice how some of the wax near the wick melts. 3. As the flame burns, the wax from ...

Students will be able to develop and explain a particle-level model to describe their observations of water dissolving salt, the water evaporating, and the salt crystals re-forming. Dissolving a solid ...

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1. Carefully pour some milk in a dish so it just covers the bottom. 2. Gently add one or two drops of red, blue, and yellow food coloring to the same spot in the center of the milk. 3. Dip a cotton ...

In a study in ACS Sensors, researchers report developing ultrasensitive, nanoscale sensors that in small-scale tests ...

ACS Regional Meetings are organized by ACS Local Sections and reflect the diverse professional interests in their geographic regions. These meetings feature excellent technical programs on a variety ...

Greetings! I’m Wenping Li, the R&D Director of Agrilectric Research Company, where we specialize in manufacturing rice hull ash amorphous silica using a biofuel power generation process. Rice hull ash ...

Modeling of onboard system design and enabling infrastructure suggests hydrogen-powered flight might help reduce the ✈ ...

A take-out container that doesn’t leak or sustainable packaging? You could have both! Researchers reporting in ACS Omega ...

In fire-prone areas, water isn’t the only thing used to quell blazes. Wildland firefighters also apply chemical or synthetic ...

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It’s not science fiction anymore — researchers have found ways to grow pork in a lab and other cultured meat products. Read ...