This colorful demonstration illustrates the rule, "likes dissolve likes," by combining three, immiscible liquids to create a density column." Teacher notes provide background information.

Discussion of miscible (mixable) and immicible (unmixable) liquids.

Concluding a two-part lab activity, students use triple balance beams and graduated cylinders to take measurements and calculate densities of several household liquids and compare them to the densities of irregularly shaped objects (as...

By making oil float on water--with the help of other ingredients--students can create a lava-lite effect.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers solubility in water and polar molecules.

An investigation into what properties liquids have that enable them to sit in separate layers in a container.

For this activity, students will test the solubility and miscibility of various substances in water, and explain the chemistry involved. They will also be given a solid and a liquid and asked to predict what will happen when each is...

At this site students will discover what happens when oil or liquid detergent are dumped into our earth's water supply.