The Chemical EducatorISSN: 1430-4171 (electronic version) Abstract Volume 17
(2012) pp 203-205 An Evening with Magic: Eight Colorless LiquidsAngela Aleksovska, Miha Bukleski, Igor Mavromihailov, Nikolina Mitreska, Vladimir M. Petruševski*, Monika Radevska, Marina Stojanovska and Jasmina Tanatarec Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences
and Mathematics, Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Arhimedova 5, PO
Box 162, 1000
Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, vladop@pmf.ukim.mk Published: 5 October 2012 Abstract. The number of first-year students of chemistry in Macedonia is declining in the last few years. An informal group (both teaching staff and Ph. D. students) called The Happy Chemists Group initiated the organization of a series of evening events with spectacular experiments, hoping to ‘infect’ high-school students with ‘the chemistry virus’. A demonstration with eight colorless liquids (based on various precipitates and complexes of lead) was introduced at the latest event that attracted students’ attention.
Key Words: Laboratories and Demonstrations; general chemistry; magic; precipitates; solubility product; lead; complexes (*) Corresponding author. (E-mail: vladop@pmf.ukim.mk) Article in PDF format (92 KB) HTML format
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