Department of Chemistry
Purdue University
Demonstrations on Tuesday, August 1
Kathryn Wagner
D1: Voice-activated reaction and how it works
Andrew Cherkas
D2: Stuck on you
Robert Richman
D3: Electrolytic titration
David (Randy) Sullivan
D4: Migrating colors
Robert Gregory
D5: Fun with transparency films: The Rutherford gold foil experiments and beyond
Jeffrey Fieberg
D6: Visualizing the transition state and reaction coordinate
Joanne Wittbrodt
D7: Will olive oil float?
Dean Campbell
D8: Flash ignition of carbon nanotubes
Brian Rohrig
D9: Do flares work underwater?
Adele Mouakad
D10: Kinetics and catalysis
Ed Vitz
D11: Magic sand/magic water
Malka Yayon
D12: As a matter of heat
Kenneth Lyle
D13: Teaching kinetics with the Landolt clock reaction
Mark Ellison
D14: Entropy bomb
Demonstrations on Wednesday, August 2
Bassam Z. Shakhashiri
D15: Chemical demonstrations: Purposes, effectiveness, and when not to do them
Raymond Dudek
D16: Using a liquid prism to demonstrate index of refraction
Susan Hershberger
D17: Using LEDs to demonstrate properties of light
Edward Senkbeil
D18: Fireproof balloon
Doctor DeMento (Jerry DeMenna)
D19: Nutritional label LIES!
Mike Briggs
D20: Macro-level demonstration of equilibrium
D21: Light bulb demos with a forensic twist
D22: Like dissolves like
Bette Bridges
D23: Instant slush
Jason Hofstein
D24: Approximating the adiabatic expansion of a gas
James Maynard
D25: Scaling a flashy demo
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