Humans have puzzled over CHEMISTRY - the study of substances - for thousands of years. What am I made from? Why does cooked food taste nice? What happens when a metal goes rusty? In the last 300 years we have answered these and many other questions by studying the material world and how it changes.
Find out why...
- Mercury is the only liquid metal
- Scientists can turn Lead into Gold
- Six elements make up 99% of your body
- Acid in your stomach can 'burn' rocks
- Flames are stored sunlight
- Space stations are powered by batteries
- Cooking is a chemical reaction
- A cubic meter of air weighs over a kilogramme
- When objects rust they get heavier
- A rubber molecule can stretch to over 4 times its normal length
- A cubic meter of sea water contains over 12 Kg of metal
- Animals can make cold light from chemicals