So today I decided I was going to pour molten aluminum on something. I just finished a new propane powered furnace and I wanted to put it to the test!



I don't know why my brain jumped to watermelon, but I'm glad it did....

Pouring lava in my pool!

When you hear the roar of traffic, the bark of a dog, or your teacher's voice, you are experiencing sound. This program uses colorful animations to explore important characteristics of sound, including intensity, loudness, pitch, and...

This video shows how to build an ion wind rotor with a Van de Graaff generator. This is a good demonstration to show the working principles of an ion thruster.

Let's take a look back at the elements platinum, iodine, aluminum, iron, and tungsten.

MOT 1952: CANADA: ALUMINUM INDUSTRY: Alcan (Aluminum Company of Canada) robotic arm lifting large square shaped block, pulling back, placing into shaping machine, top pressing uniform dents. CU Stacked bars on loader, moving back REVEALS...

This video highlights the suite of instruments aboard the Lucy spacecraft that will be used to collect data on the Trojan asteroids. Since Lucy will be the first space mission to explore the Trojans, the information...

Video Atlas of Asia: This clip looks at the physical features, climate and culture of Tajikstan.

Stephen Moore, Donald Trump's new nominee for a seat on the US Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, has proposed that the Fed follow commodity prices as a measure of inflation. There are a lot of ways to measure inflation. Sometimes...

Melting and combining 19 elements! Does it make a Super-Alloy?!

Why is aluminium ideal for transportation vehicles? What careers handle the smelting, refining and recycling of aluminium?<br/>
Smelting And Refining Aluminium, Part 4

Afsaneh Rabiei is a materials engineer at North Carolina State University who, with support from the National Science Foundation, has developed metal foam that's lighter but much stronger than "real" metal. It's designed for use in...

This program makes the Modern Periodic Table come alive to students. Numerous real-life examples of elements are exemplified in the table. Animations and graphics illustrate concepts not easily achieved through other instructional...

We know about a lot of different oxidizing and reducing agents that facilitate a variety of different transformations. But we haven't touched upon the precise transformation that can be achieved by diisobutylaluminum hydride, also known...

MOT 1952: NEW ORLEANS PORT: HA WS Cranes on dock w/ docked barges, Open grab bucket of dock crane dumping unidentified material into barge cargo hold, WS Bucket dumping unidentified material into hold, dust rising. Ore, bauxite, calcined.

When we learned about periodic trends, we learned about ionization energy. Just how much energy is required to remove an electron from an atom? What about a second electron, or a third? Let's compare a few different ionizations and see...

Silicates are a particularly complex class of minerals that all contain silica tetrahedra. What are the characteristic structures of the last three sub classes of silicates? How are they different from one another?



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This program covers the very important topic of hydrate compounds. We begin by discussing what a hydrate compound is and why they exist in nature. We discuss how to name hydrate compounds using numerous examples. The entire lesson is...

I couldn't find any info on any projects like this, so I thought I would have a try myself. I thought an oven would be the perfect platform, it already has a door, space for insulation, and comes with heating elements!...

An introduction to Clemmensen reduction.

Practice REAL problems from actual past IIT/JEE exams with Professor Dave!

Upon viewing the Exploring the Building Blocks of Matter video series, students will be able to do the following: Understand that the quest to better understand the building blocks of matter has transpired over the past several thousand...

We've learned about all the different types of nuclear reactions that can occur, so given this word problem, can you find the missing nuclide?

We know about ionic bonds and ionic compounds, how do we name them? Let's practice going from formula to name, and also from name to formula.