Hi all, Abi here. Hope you are all doing well and you’ve enjoyed Adventures in Chemistry so far. Please leave any comments, questions or feedback on the material covered in the comments below. Also let me know what element you are planning to do for your project. Looking forward to hearing from you all!
Thank you.
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Hi Abi! I really enjoyed your video. My water back in my home in Offaly is really hard but it’s soft where I live now. I really miss the hard water, because even though it destroys our kettles, I think it’s so much tastier! I wonder does anyone else agree? 🙂
Thanks, Leeanne, Can’t say I’ve tried hard water before but it must be all the magnesium and calcium ions. Fun fact I read about calcium from an amazing fact sheet I received from a student today: It was named after the Latin word Calx, which means lime. This is probably due to the fact that Humphry Davy (the guy who discovered Calcium) was working with lime and mercuric oxide when he did so. Does anyone else have any fun elemental facts they found during their research?
Thanks for that fabulous fact Abi! The history of science is one of my faaaavourite things. Does anyone know the story of how phosphorous was discovered? That’s my favourite! 🙂
Can’t say I do, do share, maybe someone can use it in their fact sheet.
After doing some research of my own, I can now say Phosphorous deserves to be on the peeriodic table. Listen to this…..’Phosphorus was first isolated in 1669 by Hennig Brand, a German physician and alchemist, by boiling, filtering and otherwise processing as many as 60 buckets of urine.’ Lovely.
Well, Hennig Brand was an alchemist, and he was trying to find a cheap way to make gold. “What looks like gold?”, he thought… Wee! Hennig Brand collected huge amounts of urine! He collected about 1,200 GALLONS of urine and boiled it down and mixed it with sand and charcoal. He eventually got phosphorus, not gold, but he called it ‘cold fire’ because of how it looked! 🙂
Ah just missed this, didn’t refresh my page enough. Love learning about the history of elements and excited to see what others find out in their projects!
I will be stealing “peeriodic table of elements” thank you very much!
hahaha no problem at all! Enjoy!
Hi Abi
Thanks for uploading the videos and the lab instructions. I haven’t had a chance to view the DNA video yet but I did try making a lava lamp which was really cool!
I am looking forward to trying the rocket when the weather is dry.
I was wondering if you would be able to upload the complete slides for the first 6 weeks as a reference point to look back on.
Hi Nevan,
Glad you enjoyed the lava lamp! Yes, I can try and get the slides up on this blog sometime during this week. Any questions I can answer for you now?
Here is the link for the beloved periodic table song. I’m sure you all know all the lyrics by now!! Hope it provides some inspiration for your fact sheet.
Hi Abi
Thanks for uploading everything it took us a while to figure everything out. I’m planning on doing magnesium if no one else has already done it. Please let me know what elements have been chosen. Thank you.
Hi Ciara,
Major apologises! I didn’t check this feedback page again until now. I’m glad all is sorted with understanding the format, it’s all very new I understand! As we are not doing live presentations like before, any element is fine even if there is a repeat in the class. But to answer your question, at the moment I’ve had no submissions for magnesium so work ahead with it! Can’t wait to see what you find out!
Thanks and apologies again for the delay.