#083

This might be one of the best chances to both listen to AND experience chemistry at the same time. Grab a bath bomb, fill up the tub, and let's find out how these friendly bombs work. How do they fizz up? How do they suddenly smell? Where do the colors come from? Can they make bath scientifically better? Let's hop in.

Listen to As A Meter Of Fact, with Coserv!

How to start a podcast. <- Check this out if you've got a podcast idea you want to make happen!

References from this episode

Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @ChemForYourLife.

Thanks to our monthly supporters

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Bonus Episode: Chemistry at Home 10

We have a very special guest this month, Stephanie Ryan Ph.D. aka @letslearnaboutscience (on Instagram)! Stephanie leads us through some cool experiments you can do at home using vinegar and baking soda.

Be sure to check Stephanie out on Instagram, and look for her book "Let's Learn About Chemistry" wherever you buy your books!

References

Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @ChemForYourLife.

Thanks to our monthly supporters

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

#082

Wow sunglasses sure are cool. What's the coolest thing about them? Is it how cool they make us look and feel? Or is it the chemistry inside them? We'll let you decide, but we think you'll be surprised to find out how significant a role chemistry plays in the making of your shades.

References from this episode

Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @ChemForYourLife.

Thanks to our monthly supporters

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

#081

The sun. It's nice, it's warm, it helps things grow, it helps us see, it helps us exist in the first place. But it's also a massive burning molten ball of radiation and ultraviolet rays. So how does our mysterious yellow friend fade the poor items we leave outside? Let's find out. Don't hurt us, yellow friend.

References from this episode

Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @ChemForYourLife.

Thanks to our monthly supporters

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

#080

Dryer sheets. They smell good. They make our clothes soft. They get rid of static. But how? How is one little sheet allowed to solve that many problems? What are they made of? Are they bad or good or neither or both?

How to start a podcast. <- Check this out if you've got a podcast idea you want to make happen!

References from this episode

Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @ChemForYourLife.

Thanks to our monthly supporters

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Bonus Episode: Chemistry at Home 9

Here's another bonus episode dedicated to teaching a specific chemistry experiment you can do at home. This month, we see what happens when we combine salt, vinegar, and pennies?

Do you like and want more of these? Is there a way we could make them better? Let us know!

References

Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @ChemForYourLife.

Thanks to our monthly supporters

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

#079

Glass. The more you look at it, the more clear it becomes that it holds some serious mysteries. So what really is glass? Is it a liquid? How is it different from typical solids? Does it flow and ooze over time? Is that why old windows are thicker at the bottom? Let's find out!

How to start a podcast. <- Check this out if you've got a podcast idea you want to make happen!

References from this episode

Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @ChemForYourLife.

Thanks to our monthly supporters

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Bonus Episode: Question and Response 17

In this month's bonus episode, Melissa and Jam respond to comments and questions about salt, bread that tastes like bananas, sunscreen on fences, AND improvements to our chemistry analogies!

Want to start your own podcast? Use Transistor and you'll have the best podcast platform available. We use it and we are totally in love with it.

Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @ChemForYourLife.

Thanks to our monthly supporters

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

#078

It's one of life's most head-scratchy questions, and one of the most popular chemistry mysteries for youtubers. So let's get to the bottom of this crazy, shape-shifting substance, and finally find out why cornstarch and water do that thing!

How to start a podcast. <- Check this out if you've got a podcast idea you want to make happen!

References from this episode

Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @ChemForYourLife.

Thanks to our monthly supporters

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

#077

Who's doing what to our salt? What's iodine, do we need it, why, and how do they get it in there? This week Melissa and Jam dive head first into figurative iodized salt dunes. Let's take a closer look at the chemistry of something so everyday, we hardly even think about it.

References from this episode

Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook @ChemForYourLife.

Thanks to our monthly supporters

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.