http://jennifershahade.com/site/2008/08/08/science-in-motion/ The personal website of Jennifer Shahade. Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:04:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://jennifershahade.com/site/2008/08/08/science-in-motion/comment-page-1/#comment-76977 Michael Duley Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:57:17 +0000 http://jennifershahade.com/site/2008/08/08/science-in-motion/#comment-76977 Wait! Your into chemistry and chess. Who is the real Jennifer! I will never figure that one out! Well the science behind this all looks exciting Wait! Your into chemistry and chess.
Who is the real Jennifer! I will never figure that one out! Well the science behind this all looks exciting

]]> http://jennifershahade.com/site/2008/08/08/science-in-motion/comment-page-1/#comment-9377 Chuck Jaeger Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:00:31 +0000 http://jennifershahade.com/site/2008/08/08/science-in-motion/#comment-9377 That video whizzes by fast.. had to re-watch it. Your mom reminds me of one of my general science teachers who caught the kids attention with a thermite reaction (fusing sand, burning through the asbestos sheets and into the stone countertop). He also brought a Van de Graaff generator in which the kids used to charge themselves up and zap each other, a leyden jar, did a small explosion with flour in a bag, and dropped little bits of sodium metal into water which danced in flame (a different science teacher in a different class dropped the whole jar and the sodium burned down through two stories to the basement. The stuff your mom did looked interesting. There was an interesting anecdote about a chemistry prank recounted by my chem lab professor from when he'd been a student, but I'd better leave that one out.. That video whizzes by fast.. had to re-watch it. Your mom reminds me of one of my general science teachers who caught the kids attention with a thermite reaction (fusing sand, burning through the asbestos sheets and into the stone countertop). He also brought a Van de Graaff generator in which the kids used to charge themselves up and zap each other, a leyden jar, did a small explosion with flour in a bag, and dropped little bits of sodium metal into water which danced in flame (a different science teacher in a different class dropped the whole jar and the sodium burned down through two stories to the basement. The stuff your mom did looked interesting. There was an interesting anecdote about a chemistry prank recounted by my chem lab professor from when he’d been a student, but I’d better leave that one out..

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