Speaker one Have you ever had a bump or a sprain and needed a cold compress? Speaker two Yes, all the time. Now, some cold packs use a chemical reaction to absorb heat. This is an example of something ...

Note: This video is designed to help the teacher better understand the lesson and is NOT intended to be shown to students. It includes observations and conclusions that students are meant to make on ...

To make a safe, portable form of heating to take to the rest of the team working up on the glacier. All combustion reactions (such as the burning of coal) are exothermic. Incredibly, the reaction ...

Students explore the concept that chemical reactions involve the breaking of bonds between atoms in the reactants, and the rearrangement and rebonding of these atoms to make the products. Students ...

This is an Outreach event primarily aimed at adult chemistry students at Thes Manchester College (City Labs. The aim of this lecture is to explore ‘fire’ and other exothermic reactions as interesting ...

There probably aren’t many people out there who aren’t aware of what thermite is and how it demonstrates the power of runaway exothermic reactions. Practical applications that don’t involve destroying ...

THE MAGPIE : NOW THAT the US presidential election is out of the way, Magpie last week held out the prospect this week of a … THE MAGPIE: NOW THAT the US presidential election is out of the way, ...