A staple for summertime activities- fireworks! Where do they get their characteristic color from? I traveled down to the College of Charleston’s general chemistry lab to show you. What we’ll be ...

A cleaned, moistened flame test wire is dipped into a solid sample of the compound. It is then put into the edge of a blue Bunsen flame. The flame colour produced indicates which metal ion is present ...

“One of these days, someone is going to die” from injuries sustained in a chemistry classroom fire, Calais Weber Biery says. “I almost did.” In 2006, when Biery was 15, her chemistry teacher set up a ...

Adverse outcomes from childhood exposures to lead and mercury are on the decline in the United States, likely due to decades of restrictions on the use of heavy metals, a new study finds. Adverse ...