Curated Video
Biology - How the Kidneys Work - (Kidneys Part 1/3) #27
This video covers: - The 3 main functions of the kidneys: 1) removing waste, 2) regulating levels of ions, and 3) regulating levels of water - How the kidneys can achieve all of this using filtration and selective reabsorption - How...
Curated Video
Electrons and Ions
Electrons and Ions describes what occurs in an atom when electrons are added or removed from the outer shell using the terms ion, bonding, gain, lose, and charge.
Weatherthings
Aurora
The Aurora has fascinated and intrigued people for ages. It is a display of light in Earth’s magnetosphere caused by high energy particles arriving to the planet in the solar wind. The Aurora is seen in both hemispheres. In the northern...
Visual Learning Systems
The Nature of Electricity: Static Electricity
This video describes the basic role that atoms play in creating electrical charges, as well as the nature and creation of static electricity. Various methods of charging are discussed, emphasizing the role that insulators and conductors...
Visual Learning Systems
Forming Bonds: Ionic Bonds
Upon viewing the Forming Bonds video series, students will be able to do the following: Understand that matter is made up of tiny particles called atoms. Explain that atoms consist of many different types of subatomic particles including...
Schooling Online
Chemistry Properties and Structure of Matter: Properties of Matter - Chemical Properties of Elements
If movies have taught us anything, it’s that the first person to enter a spooky cave is the first to get in trouble! Will First Mate Phil survive to see the light of day? This lesson will shine a light on the chemical properties of...
Next Animation Studio
Korea’s tokamak artificial sun sets new plasma record
A tokamak is a machine that creates three powerful magnetic fields to keep a superheated plasma confined.
FuseSchool
Measures of electricity
Learn the basics about Measures of electricity. What techniques and methods are used to measure electricity? Find out more in this video!
Curated Video
Iron Tests: Flame Test, Sodium Hydroxide Test, and Tests for Negative Ions
This video is an educational presentation on common tests used to detect the presence of particular ions in compounds. The presenter demonstrates and explains various tests for positive and negative ions, including the flame test and...
Catalyst University
Superoxides and Superoxide Dismutase: Physiology, Biochemistry, and Inorganic Mechanism
Superoxides and Superoxide Dismutase: Physiology, Biochemistry, and Inorganic Mechanism
NASA
Martian Atmosphere Loss Explained by NASA
Scientists have long suspected the solar wind of stripping the Martian atmosphere into space, a process that may have turned Mars from a blue world early in its history into the red planet that we see today. In 2014, NASA's MAVEN orbiter...
Next Animation Studio
Engineers at MIT fly first plane with no moving parts
Engineers at MIT have designed a plane that flies using only ionic wind thrust.
Next Animation Studio
Developing more effective migraine treatments
For a century, scientists thought migraines were a vascular disease. But now it is thought that migraines are related to a wave of overactive neurons that spreads across the brain, which in turn affects blood vessels. Researchers hope to...
Professor Dave Explains
Practice Problem: Analyzing Acid-Base Equilibria
Acids! Bases! Conjugate acids! Conjugate bases! We definitely have to be able to label such things, and we should also know how to state which direction in an acid-base equilibrium is preferred. To do this we should know how to tell...
NASA
First Map of Mars Electric Currents
Five years after NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars, data from the mission has led to the creation of a map of electric current systems in the Martian atmosphere. Unlike Earth, Mars lacks a protective global magnetic...
NASA
NASA | Solar Wind Strips Martian Atmosphere
Mars is a cold and barren desert today, but scientists think that in the ancient past it was warm and wet. The loss of the early Martian atmosphere may have led to this dramatic change, and one of the prime suspects is the solar wind....
FuseSchool
Ionic Equations
Learn the basics about Ionic equations. Precipitation reactions involve two solutions reacting to form an insoluble product, the precipitate. What does that mean? Find out more in this video!
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Electric Currents in Conductors
This nugget explains the mechanism of movement of electric charges in a current-carrying conductor.
NASA
NASA | Studying the Solar Wind on Mars
Robert Lin, the late director of the Space Sciences Laboratory, discusses how NASA's MAVEN spacecraft will study the interaction of the Martian atmosphere with the solar wind. MAVEN's findings will reveal how Mars lost its early...
FuseSchool
Ionic Bonding of Lithium Fluoride & Potassium Oxide
Learn the basics about the ionic bonding of calcium chloride, lithium fluoride and potassium oxide, as a part of the overall properties of matter topic. An ionic bond is defined as the electrostatic attraction between oppositely charged...
FuseSchool
Ionic Compounds & Their Properties
Learn the basics about Ionic Compounds, how they are formed and what their properties are.